“He’s beautiful, what kind he is he?” “He’s a Hanoverian,” I say. “Of course.” See everyone knows Hanoverians are amazing.

One reason Hanoverians are amazing is their beauty. They are a rare breed, breed in only one place in America. They have beautiful gaits, a dressage type, they come in beautiful colors,too. And they’re German! Doesn’t get better than that!

Another reason Hanoverians are amazing is they attract attention. Mine is 17.2 hands, and is bay with 3 white stockings. I always get complements at horse shows and it gives the judges something uncommon to enjoy in long day if judging all kinds of horses.

All these reasons just tell that Hanoverians a great horse breed and deserved to be well known. But bye bye, I’m gonna go ride my beautiful, handsome, tall, German boy.

When you think of boots, you might think of fashion boots, or cowboy boots, maybe even the play “Kinky Boots”(which I heard is really good). But when hear boots, I think of English style riding boots.

Being an English style horseback rider, I do something with my boots everyday. Oh! I just got a new pair of boots-Ariat, the best horse brand ever-a few weeks ago, by the first lesson with them, they were as brown as……well dirt. I had cleaned my horse, tacked him up, trained for an hour, untacked him, cleaned him again, gave him a bath, let him graze, and put him back in his stall. The usual stuff. By then my new boots looked a hundred years old.

But hey, in a year or two I will do the same cycle. But I don’t just do all of that with my boots. My boots carry me to horseshows, through dirt and mud, to every ribbon, to every champion. To every lesson that I have to take in the screams of disappointment and not argue.

So yeah, these boots are made for riding, they’re made for getting me one step closer to achieving my goal: a great horsewoman

“Horse back riding is easy. They do 99% of the work.” Excuuuuuse you? Horse back riding is not easy.

Ok, so yeah. One reason horseback riding isn’t easy is you have to do 50% of the work. At resorts and camps they do have horses that do 99% of the work because most people can’t even tell them to do a leg yield. Which is terrible if you do the intense-training-work-your-butt-off-Olympic-future type stuff. Most people don’t even know what a bridle is. Which is horrific for the non-intense-don’t-have-to-work-hard-fun training. Every time someone asks me what I do in riding, they got lost in the first sentence and I have to break down everything back to the basics WHICH I CAN’T STAND.

But I guess for you to understand this, I am going to have to go to the basics. AGAIN! Another reason horseback riding is difficult is the intense training.Right now I’m training with the advanced group. You know, the high school girls that are really good and make me stick out like a sore thumb sometimes. But really I fit in most of the time, when Armani is doing good on his half of the work. But don’t get me wrong, most of the time something goes wrong it’s the rider’s fault. But that can always be corrected. Just so you know since the horse does 50% of the work, if he’s in a bad mood your in bad luck. Your trainer screams at you until someone(you or the horse) does something right. Even if the exercise is tough, there is no mercy.

So no, horseback riding is not easy. And yeah, it is tough. But every minute I spend the intense training and every time I do the blood, sweat, and tears thing, gets me one step closer to my goal: Professional-Big-Cheese-Well-Known Horseback rider.