The huge announcement isssss

 Super Kid and I will be leaving for three weeks on Tuesday. I am going to be a working student with Dom and Jimmie Schramm, this is super exciting and totally last minute. This was all arranged in the last three and four days. I will be missing the first week of my senior year, but honestly what do you learn in the first week?? Anyway I really don't know how much I will be able to blog but hopefully. So here are some pictures from the lesson I had with him on Wednesday

First ever corner 

Novice height with flowers!!!

Pony Face likes to jump

Nice novice jump in my lesson with Dom Schramm

    I might have a HUGE announcement in the next few days involving me and ponyface going on a road trip. If you guess what it is I will make your pony treats and send them to you 

Stallions for ponyface

Should I ever decide to breed Super Kid here are the things I am looking for in a stallion

• MUST be over 15h and under 16.1h
• bigger bones than ponyface
• proven show record
• must have good jump
• not super hot but not exactly 110% calm

Things they can not be or 

• Have a history of melanoma in their family 
• Never shown
• mean tempered 

So if you have any idea's please comment. THIS IS NOT A SURE THING. I said if Super Kid gets hurt (not seriously please) and has to have a year or two off then this is an option. Someday I do want my own foal from her that I can see grow up and train and compete myself. 

Summer heat and fly tips

First go enter Equestrian At Hart's contest here!!

I am going to share a few of my summer horsey tips on keeping them cool and the flys off for the most part.
My first tip is the get this product

I use this for EVERYTHING almost. I put it on the inside of their ears to keep the biting gnats out,  under their jaws, on their belly buttons, anywhere where the flies and gnats just keep biting aways and making them miserable

 My second tip is to hose them off, scrape them off then fly spray, good way to cool them off and get the flies.

Third tip is to install a fan in your run in ( where the ponies can't reach it to get hurt), in the summer if your horse isn't stalled in the daytime, they will be spending most of their time in the shade so if possible make it so they have someway to keep as cool as possible. 

 If you notice a horse showing signs of heat exhaustion, like colic symptoms, laying down and getting back up, generally looking uncomfortable, breathing heavily and having an elevated heartbeat, hose them off with cool water, scrape them off and repeat until they get cooled off.    

Teagan's Glass, Meeting Leslie Law, and Rhyme's hip

    Well as many of you know I have acquired Teagan as a free-lease pony, well he isn't vary happy because I am making him do all dressage work. He is a classic TB and doesn't want to bend unless forced or really relax and stretch down and stretch over his back and actually push off his hind legs. Well the first week we had him we just free-lunged him just because he hasn't been working for a long time. Today I decided to get on him with the help of the ever so wonderful draw-reins which I do use correctly, I don't ride the whole time with them on, just what I want to get accomplished then they come off. About 10 minutes into the argument with him about him putting his head up and inverting his back he finally decided that arguing wasn't worth it and gave in. Then he figured out that it was much easier to go the way I was telling him then to go the way he wanted to. We stopped, took the draw-reins off and went around the back on a walk, I even let him pop over the 2ft log and he was very excited about this!!
    Tuesday my mom and I went to the Leslie Law ridding demo at the week one Event camp at Come Again Farms. I did learn a lot from the demo that is going to help me on all the ponies that I ride and I got to meet him!! He was extremely nice to a young event rider like me.
    On the topic of Rhymekins hip, well he's had three weeks off, I got on him last week, and trotted and he was fine, taking even strided etc. I got on him today and he was back to being off. I think it has something to do with stomping at the flys when its hot and the ground is hard because last week it was rainy and cool and he was fine, this week it's rainy but muggy and buggy. So both him and Arrow are hopefully going to Janson's Vet clinic up in Indy. I'm sorry this is another pictureless post 

Guess who I got to meet??!!!

Please excuse my face, 90+ weather with humidity suck!!

Soooo about that horse thing

    Rhyme is getting a month off so he can learn not to hurt himself and give me a panic attack. So in order of me not going nutso crazy and constantly worry about Rhyme, I GOT A NEW PONY. Well I am keeping him and riding him for awhile on a free-lease. His name is Teagan and he is a 15 yr old OTTB who, in his heyday jumped like this

Unfortunately he has developed Melanoma and can't jump that high, I think limited at BN\N. I THINK, nobody quote me on this. Anyway I will be working on a TON of dressagey stuff, even though he does HATE IT WITH A PASSION, but he doesn't bend and use his mile long TB legs like a good child. He hasn't been working in a long while so getting some muscles and then he can do what he loves JUMPING. Anyway Super Kid also decided to come into flaming heat this week so this new hunky guy is her new bf. Like she is head over hooves in love.