So far she doesn't get to do anything crazy, but she doesn't get particularly fazed by height or oddness of a jump, just gives a bit of a hairy eye while she flies over.ġ3. Horse's Favourite Riding Exercise Ha, walking on a long rein? No, really, she may not like having to trot to a jump, instead of just putting her head down and cantering like she used to, but she really does seem to enjoy jumping. With some better muscling, and fat she should be mighty purdy come summer :)ġ2. Overall, I think she has an adorable head, and a nice TB like body. One is more upright, they angle inward a bit, and her navicular bones likely would break down fast if she was jumped high and hard often. She paddles at the trot (albeit I think its kinda cute). So, if you break my mare apart, she's not amazingly well put together. Ok, so I may need to take some conformation shots. I think with some more muscle, her canter will come together more, because Tues night she actually collected after jumping and showed me a glimpse of a much more uphill, comfortable canter in there somewhere.ĥ Day Challenge - Day 3.
Good work, but my legs were already burning. It was cold, did lots of lengthening and collecting at the canter. Weds am, flat lesson in 38F weather with a nice chilly wind chill. I mean relax! bouncing through 3 jumps gave me time to actually pay attention to what I was doing, not just shut-down survival brain mode. Since usually on a single jump my mind is pretty much screaming I'm gonna die!.
It was well timed because I had to sit back more, a big problem of mine lately. I really like gymnastics, which are easy on Magic, who pretty much is point and shoot with jumping. We trotted both ways with combos of 1,2,and 3 jumps, then cantered the 3. Then we did a little gymnastic, starting with trot poles and one jump and working up to 3 cross rails with fairly tight one stride apart. We did the normal WTC, including me ending up pathetically hugging Magic's neck, thanks to the workers loading some chairs for our trainer just outside the arena. More torture for us, (yay)! Hubby unfortunately didn't come so no video (boo). Only L and I really rode, E's horse was off, Karley was elsewhere and M couldn't ride.
I was running late so of course my trainer decides I have to ride Magic, who stood in the far corner of a sloppy pasture, and had clearly been trying to go camouflaged with a full body of mud camo. We had great representation from our barn, two adorable kids, and Karley, L, and I, pretty much half the people in the show.Īnd on to pics. Not exactly a big wins (we won candy), but hey I'll take them since I don't have anything else under my H/J belt. Lots and lots of trotting.Įnded up doing the W/T, W/T poles, and W/T/C classes. Walked her down the the arena since it was so crazy windy and there were people milling about in blankets carrying chairs etc. Cleaned it up, applied very generous amounts of Vetrolin Shine to my fuzzy beast and tried to run some of the crazy out in the round pen. I got lucky and was able to snag the trainer's Butet. I had ditched work a couple hours early, squeezed in a power nap, ditched the kid, and dragged the hubby toting our camera down to the barn. It was also in the 40's and windy as all hell out. Sunday = Show! One of the other trainers had her little schooling show.