We ended up in 11th!!! Huge accomplishment for us, just outside the ribbons. Warm-up for dressage was awesome but we lost it as soon as we got in the ring, dressage score put us in 14th.
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Before Stadium,my wonderful coach Robert and his adorable daughters
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Cross country, the course was easy, vary straight forward, lots of galloping space. We suited up and sprayed our new decorations on (a star and arrow on her hindquarters) Pony warmed up nicely and was ready to go. As we are walking to the start box somebody has a fall at the first jump, greaat just was my nerves needed, she was fine and we wait for the person in front of us to go. They had a refusal every single jump, it was a young horse I believe so I didn't want to pass and have it freak out. Even though I trotted a lot of the course we still had good time and only had one refusal (sunrise jump if you've ever been to the HHP, thank goodness they painted over it)
We finished the event right outside the ribbons, 11th.
We have been dealing with the dreaded S word(stiffness) for a week now. I blame the insane weather, it has been raining and the ground soft until this week, the temp. skyrocketed , muggy\buggy, and the ground turned to cement. She is 15 so I knew in the back of my mind we would start dealing with a little arthritis but its honestly a godsend that she's not full blown crippled like Arrow who we couldn't even ride until we finally got Adaquan i.m into him, now he is 100%. So sometime this summer I will have the vet come out and take a look at her legs. The one that is particularly bothering her is the one where there is an old tendon injury, right hind fetlock. Rhyme is going, well. We haven't had any hip issues and are restarting in serious training. Including jumping, we free jumped him and he has springs, big fancy springs that only come out when he has to actually jump aka above 2'8 (we went up to 3'4 i think) He's so cute.
In other news I have a training pony
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| Look at my face |
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| So cute |
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| I had her a week and she lost about 50lbs, she's chunkyyy |
Welcome to fat pony bootcamp Lady Farah Bask, 10yr old Morgan\ Arab mare about 14.2h . She came about 200lbs overweight, with a ponytude. She is now about 100lbs down and as nice as a puppy but still sassy. Her owners are downsizing to two equines and she needed a job. Farah will make a FANTASTIC young adult or small adult all around horse. She is excelling in basic dressage and lunging over small cross-rails, she will make a great eventer once she gets that experience under her belt. She will need someone who wont be afraid to get after her when she's snotty. I'll be putting an ad out for her once she's lost about 100 more pounds, she's wearing a x-wide gullet on her saddle right now, plus a crupper because of the zero withers.
