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I Love Horses Research Paper

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"First place goes to 218 Katelynn and her horse She's a Package!" Joy and pride surged through my body when I had won. Horse to me is more than the dictionary definition. The word horse is defined as an animal, a herbivore with hoofs instead of feet. In my life, though, horse is the loss of my grandpa, trying to live up to expectations, and the anxiety of getting hurt.
Horse is loss. Loss as in losing someone. For me, I lost my grandpa, papa, to cancer Three almost four years ago. He was a very hard working man. He owned his own electrical business, farmed land, and he also made time for his hobby of horses. He instilled my love for horses. I thought he was amazing, he traveled to North Dakota and Canada to show horses. He went so many times …show more content…

In specific most pressure came from my mom. She grew up with my papa and almost every weekend from April to September they went to a horse show. She thought because I love horses so much that I was going to want to compete like she did. So I tried but as I got older it just was not fun anymore. I think most of the pressure she was putting on me was because she knew my older brother had tried but he did not enjoy it as much as did, and my younger brothers did not have an interest in horses either. So really I was her last chance to have one of her kids continue what she had done. I still am in the horse project with my county and do horse bowl. This also does not require us to be up at my grandmas every weekend, she lives three and a half hours away, or the money to board a horse, not to mention the fees to show. In a way that is a good thing, because right now would be my prime time in the horse circuit, but my older brother is going to be starting college so we really are not in the financial state to do it either. Besides it being financially incapable it was really starting to affect me in the seventh grade, I was not doing very good in school. That summer I really did not want to ride, she finally got angry enough that she told me if I wanted to ride I would have to come and get her. That worked for about a week till she was back and I had told her many times I did not like to compete. I think we have finally come to a semi-agreement that I am not …show more content…

The anxiety comes from a couple of situations. Imagine your seven years old, your riding a red sorrel horse while your brother is across the arena riding a white horse, with your grandpa in the center giving you directions. Your feet start to get sore, so you break away from the center and let your feet out of the stirrups keep in mind you have spurs on. Five minutes later your horse spooks and starts running, and as you are seven years old you hold on for dear life. While the spurs keep digging into your horse, it starts bucking so you hold on even tighter not helping your situation so the bucks get higher and harder and finally you lose your grip and you fly off. You do not get severely hurt, but you did get the wind knocked out of you. You are scared of the horse now, but your grandpa makes you get back on with tears streaming down your face. It helped only a little making you get back on, from that day forward you never wanted to ride that horse. As you got older you slowly got better and more comfortable. Now you and your mom are riding in the arena, today she said you are going to start loaping. Keep in mind you are on a past barrel riding horse, they're trained to go as fast as they can. You've been riding for a while when your mom tells to cue into a loap. You've never done this before, as you cue it isn't so bad. One little detail is missing, though, you tend to hold on tight and with that your horse keeps going faster. You try so hard to slow her

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