Indeed, happy birthday to her!
(But friends leaping out from a dark stall shouting "Surprise" with noisemakers, with horses around sounds like a bad scene)
Yeah. Already thought of that. I will "offer" to unsaddle her horse when while she goes into the barn.
(And if she does not get suspicious by dad willingly unsaddling her horse, instead of the other way around, nothing will make her suspicious. lol)
This arab is pretty well desensitized anyway. When we got him two years ago, he was a basket case. I have done everything to get him over his fears (sacking out with windbreaker, green tarp, dragging branches, lawn chairs, shooting pop guns, then paint ball guns then .22s, etc.) It has taken a long time but there is not much that can frighten him now.