Everyone was up early, had brekkie and after that it was time to put all our tack on the saddles that we would ride out with. After some trials and error, I had my saddle packed and ready for its first Mongolian test run! The crew had downloaded the 6km (up and back 12km) test ride on our GPS, we got given our new horses, this time I had a bay and called him Pete. He was a really cool pony, not fazed by anything, did what you told him to do and the best thing you can get on AND off him without having any trouble! Katie Vincent, Lara and I were ready and guided ourselves over the valley, around the first hill and decided to go over the second hill (which we didn’t have to take, we would’ve gone easily around it without any trouble). Pete was doing a great job, up that hill like a trooper but on top of the hill I had to get off the re-arrange my saddle as it had slid a bit further down his back as his girth wasn’t very tight. All done and we were ready to continue, however Katie’s horse wasn’t too happy about going down the hill and Lara’s horse was not happy about the whole situation at all! And there was Lara, stuck on the hill because her horse didn’t want to come down! Pete was getting inpatient so I continued my way down and around the corner were Harry the vet, he checked every horse’s heart rate and gate to see if they were still sound. My noble steed’s heart rate was 80 when we came in and was 100% sound, after a few minutes his heart rate had gone down sufficiently and we were allowed to head back to camp. Back around the corner and there is Katie standing next to her horse and can’t get back on as her horse is not very people orientated, I ride up to her, hold her horse tightly next to Pete and she can quickly hop on and ride to the checkpoint. On the way back I let Pete show me what he was made of, and he honed off! He was having a blast and we caught up with 2 others, Alison and Natasha, with the 3 of us we rode back to camp. Along the way the ponies would sometimes jump and we’d look back and then there would be a big marmot hole! They are so smart those ponies! When everyone had returned, it was time for lunch and the main subject of the conversations was offcourse “how was your horse”?