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IEA wrap-up, where pony has a mental breakdown and then so do I, We rock out dressage and get our best score to date then have a giant fail fest at anything jumping.

So cute,so fat,so sassy and jumps, GAHH 

Penny Oaks

 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.

Before Stadium,my wonderful coach Robert and his adorable daughters

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

Look at my face

So cute

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.  

Heartland (Picture heavy)

Rhyme rocked around heartland like a boss, for his first show he did AMAZING! We ended up in 6th in our GAG classs, rock on!!!

So fly

Dressage Skillzzz

Don't mind us, just doing a w\t test 

Dem ears

Your small jumps don't impress me mam 

I love my baby warmblood! He turned six April 20th so we are officially big kids now. Hopefully I will be taking him to Bea Hive Ranch to school some cross country so we can rock Leg-Up

I need a lepurchan, no seriously

    Over the winter I crashed the car my mom and I share, 07' Focus, I hit black ice and spun landing in a ditch (I knew to never trust one). Luckily the car wasn't broken that bad, new radiator, hose thingy, bumper and a frame straightening from hitting the snow so hard and we were okay. Money goodbye. Next thing I know one day Im driving the truck home from school and I smell something like a hot engine, assuming it was the vehicle in front of me think nothing of it, note to tell my mom later. Next freaking morning go to put it in reverse, guess what NO REVERSE. Take it in, transmission is out, well $$$$$ later new transmission is installed and should be done tomorrow morning.  Which is a miracle because we are leaving for Heartland Friday evening, I have spent this whole week freaking out because I thought we wouldn't be able to go to this show. My family needs some luck :P
Show schedule so far is
Heartland CT April 19th- GAG on Rhyme
Penny Oaks HT May 2-3- BN on Super Kid
IEA HT May 30-June 1(?)- BN or MAYBE Novice

Final countdown

     I am in the final stretch of high school. graduation is May 30th. I guess you can say that it is a huge relief to be done with it but then again its a big step. I don't want the best friends I have now move away and we never speak again. I love my friends and even though sometimes I'm sure we get on each others nerves I wouldn't change them. I am going to be glad to not have that constant stress on my life! It's a true honest statement that testing children from a young age up till high school with standardized test like ISTEP+, ECA(end-of-course assessment) has a bad impact on a students life. I am one of those kids that never did well in a part of the test, it is ALWAYS math. I am so bad at math its not even funny, but since sixth grade I've been in remedial classes for math, they never did a thing. I never passed the ISTEP math portion and it took me three tries to pass the ECA Algebra 1 test. English on the other hand I've always done really well in.I have generalized testing disorder which basically means that I freak out or possibly have panic attacks while testing.
ENOUGH about my school life. Arrow is being started on Adequan i.m as of 4-9-2014 and will be on the first dosing, a shot every four days, etc. Hopefully this works, he really is talented and my mom has done really well with his training, crossing fingers and toes!!! Rhyme showed no lameness and had zero inflammation today and so we couldn't really have the vet diagnose something on him. So back into work we go with Heartland CT the 19th of April. Two weeks(?) or so is Penny Oaks which I'm hoping to go to.
    Disclaimmer
I pay for all my shows except heartland out of my own money which I work two part-time jobs for. I have never been handed anything nor ever want to be. I love working hard and getting rewarded for it somehow. Whether it be a good grade, better dressage score, finishing on my dressage score there is always a take home message

Super Kid the other day warming up before our ride. She was amazing, and is looking fantastic, dressage wise we are ready for Penny Oaks, conditioning and jumping we shill have some work to do.
 Here's the video and tell me what you think!

Now don't get me wrong

    I love my baby horse Rhyme, but he is hard to ride. He is a warmblood after all, but he has the best and worst things about his breeding.
Now I have had Welsh cobs or ponies my whole life, they come with their own set of quirks. For example they have a neck that can periscope, because their neck and heads are set up on the top of their shoulders they have a talent of when they get excited or hear something strange to pull their heads up as HIGH AS POSSIBLE.

    I have been hit in the mouth more than once by somebody doing this. Since both WB and cobs are carrige based horses they have a amazing talent of collecting, 

The majority of the time that I ride Super Kid and Rhyme achieving that long and low status, or our happy place. 

Its a interesting topic, thoughts? I usually warm up, some collected work, decompress with stretchy work then switch back then end long and low. No matter if I'm doing jumping,dressage,conditioning or whatever I always warm up like this. Super Kid is best at getting right to the stretchy work, whereas Rhyme you have to convince that it is a good idea and he will feel better after. He is slowly getting better at this, he just naturally compresses VARY well and its hard to stretch out