The group I rode with up North decided to have a Halloween Hunter Pace.  Now when we had a Hunter Pace it went through the park and through the neighborhood.  We’d ride up the roads and through people’s fields and yards.  It was a very horsey community.

So now what do you do on a “Halloween” Hunter Pace?  You dress in costumes of course, and so does your horse.

The first year I dressed as a witch and Desert was dressed as a devil.  I braided his tail and put a red point on the end.  Red sheet, red leg wraps, red socks on his ears to look like horns, and of course a red bridle.  Bob was dressed as the headless horseman, riding my black mare Magic.  He wore a cape over his head, carried a stuffed pumpkin under his arm and this is the way we went through the neighborhood.

Now we were cute and got a lot of laughs on that early Saturday morning, but the looks we got were nothing compared to our friend who had a white Arabian.  She dressed in a full neutral colored body suite with a long blond wig down to her knees, and went as Lady Godiva.  You want to talk about stopping traffic.  It was the talk of the town for days.

Sometimes we take ourselves, and our riding to serious.  Lighten up and have a good time with your horse and your friends.  Life is short, enjoy every minute of it.