Dante keeps getting better. I wish I could say the same about Starry. He is still inconsistent about taking the lead. He will follow a perfect ride with a disaster ride. He just wants to follow Dante so much. He doesn’t mind leading if he is only with Cole--the problem is the bromance between Starry and Dante.
It is actually very comical. The rides are always more entertaining when Starry joins us. Let’s say Dante is in the lead, followed by Starry and lastly, Cole. After a while, Cole can’t handle walking that slow, and he wanted to take the lead. He will try to pass Starry, and Starry will walk faster and block him from getting between him and Dante. Once Cole gets ahead of him and starts to pass Dante, Starry could care less.
If Starry didn't trot so fast and Dante trot so slow, none of this would be a problem. They walk at the same speed. Cole likes to do everything fast, so it doesn’t matter when it is just Cole and Starry. Still, when we are riding without Dante, we practice putting Starry in the lead so he is better when we ride with Dante.
Kevin can easily get Starry to go in the lead when we are crossing a river. Once he is in the lead, he is usually happy to be there. If Starry has momentum on a hill, we can stop our horses, and often he goes right past. At the beginning of the ride, when we cross the river, the trail either goes right or left. We will go one way, and Kevin will go the other way. Once he gets going, we turn around and catch up with him.
One of the funny ways we can get Starry to pass is to hide our horses. It doesn’t work all the time, but it is one of our most successful ploys. We just pull our horses way off the trail if there is a side trail we can go on. If we are far enough away, Starry will go right past. We laugh at him whenever we can trick him like that. It can be a lot of fun to have Starry with us.
And then there are the times when Starry just decides to take the lead!
Starry logic can sometimes be illogical. Sometimes, Kevin will leave ahead of me. When he gets to the end of the trail, he turns around to go home--and Starry won’t go! He neighs for us and waits there for us to catch up with him--even though if he goes towards home, he will catch up with us even sooner. Sometimes, he has to wait a long time, too. Starry always keeps us laughing.
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