Day Thirty: Kristen took Happy to the round pen and lunged him for me. It was time for me to start riding Happy. I stepped up and noticed he looked more mature now and his eye looks softer. I see him everyday so it’s hard to see him growing but it’s been a while sense I have been on him. Kristen sends Happy on the lunge line and he started off at a trot. It would have been nice to start at a walk but off we go at a trot settling into the trot I noticed he has a nice trot and then Kristen sends Happy the other direction, without telling me, Happy is so deliberate in his movement I see why Kristen started to giggle. We stop and talk about what a trip it is to ride him. I ask Happy to go around the pen at a walk and trot and then the lope. When I got to the lope I was laughing. His movement isn’t what I look for in a Reining Horse so I never really took notice. He has way to much knee action at the lope for my taste but now riding him was totally different. He is smooth to ride so that is a plus. I can feel him lope up underneath himself and to tell you the truth I really didn’t see that at all, he always looks so gangly to me. This horse is teaching me to see thing differently. This is getting funner;0)