LOL...that is exactly what they were thinking:)
Harley was the funny one. You'd think they would understand that it is just a small horse.
Your right, I don't think Lilly wanted any part of going by herself. She was happy just being led.
Her mother and father are the ones I told you about way last year that got the 2 mules. I think they both have been bucked off now. They are thinking of sending them off to trainers.
This pony is way too fat. And they aren't feeding her nothing but pasture. I think she should be dry lotted and fed nothing but hay for a while, and very little of that. She just seems soooooo sweet it would be really sad if she foundered. I asked Kristy today who originally broke her but she didn't know. But she did say that alot of kids at the ranch, who have been raised around horses their whole lives rode her alot a few years ago. Their parents were around so they wouldn't have been allowed to just run her and jerk her around. These are kids who were taught how to ride properly and care for a horse. I've always thought that ponies got a bad rap for being labled stubborn and mean. So many of them have just been handled by kids any which away, and I don't blame the ponies for getting ornery.
Becky
I agree with you on ponies. People don't seem to invest the same money and effort in training them, they just put kids on them and off they go and blame the pony. I don't think they're ornery or stubborn either by nature, they're just barely broke and yanked around without a lot of reward sometimes. :~D