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Its up to you. English saddles work fine for trail riding. But if you want a western saddle to trail ride in go ahead and buy one, they are a bit exspensive though.

I live in a small town, and on some of the holidays, IF there is a parade, we ride in it. AND we decorate our horses for it…Labor Day [red white and blue] Same for July 4. When no parade…Valentines, st. paddys…sometimes we will decorate our horses anyways, and ride around town. We always get a good response. People love to see horses…and when the horses are “in costume” they really like it.

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These are games played in tems. Basically it’s done on ponies with fast runs and quick turns. e.g 1st rider gallops to a bucket, picks out a ball, gallops to next rider, hand over the ball, she will gallop to the bucket, put the ball in it and gallop to finish line where the 2nd rider does the same………..and so on until all riders have finished and the balls are counted. Sometimes there is a lot of dismounting and getting back on so a little pony is ideal for these games

A nice relaxing trail ride… TO BORING!!!

Easter
*dress up comp (including saddle and bridle on so you can ride in a circle)

*have an easter egg (blown eggs) hunt on horse back
e.g put the eggs in the tree’s where you can reach from horse back and the one with the most gets a prize

saint pats
*drink run
*costume parade (including saddle and bridle on so you can ride in a circle)

Equipment:
a big paddock
a tray or bucket
and water (with Green cordial in it)
and apples or carrots
stop watch

what to do
1 find a long clear space and place a rope at one end and the full bucket at the other end (a big space needed inbetween)
2 place carrot/apple in the bucket
3 everyone hop on your horse and wait at the starting line pick some one to go first
4 they will then go to the end and the rider has to pick up a carrot/apple with there mouth and run back to the finnish line the horse gets the food
5 the one that does it the fastest wins (a prize if you want) and the loser must drink some of the cordial (not all and not if you dont all agree on it)
6 you are dissqualified if your horse eats the food

Sorry its so long but thats the way the cookie crumbles
Hope you have fun

just practice

I would just get one really nice/expensive English saddle & take good care of it.

I ride English usually & have both types. Last time I went trail riding in the Western, I ended up being really sore because it fits me different…too bulky & can’t feel the horses movements as well as the English.

Gaming is the East Coast version of Gymkana.

The classes include:

Cloverleaf Barrel Racing

California Speed Barrels (Three barrels in a straight line, kinda like pole bending.).

Pole Bending (5 poles that you zig zag around.)

Key hole

Chase Me Charley or Barnyard Jumping

Australian Pursuit (Trot race)

The rest are added as they are thought of.

Look up the history of each holiday and see if say their is a traditional dance make up your own dance (walk from this cone to this cone, zig-zag here, run here, etc.)
Easter:
*See who’s horse will keep bunny ears on the longest
* Do a carrot hunt, break up tiny pieces of carrots and scttor them about their stall or paddoc (depending how they are daily) have the owner keep up with how many carrots they find!

St. PD:
*Buy washable green paints, and see who can get the most…
green paint on their horse
clovers painted on
the best design
*Paint a big board with a few colors on it, tell the horse to point to the green, they probably have no training on this, and will reach out to smell it, their for ‘pointing’ at a color see who gets the closest

for each task who ever wins can get a chocolate bunny, for the owner, or a little clover trinket, and a small bag of treats (or a few treats) for the horse. Everything I mentioned, I was thinkng from the ground, but you could posibly change them into riding somehow. Make sure what ever you do is for fun! And let the owners know that, some people can get really competive!

Have fun, I may have to do that myself!

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