Monthly Archives: April 2012

This was from a jumping lesson, summer 2011. Key takeaways. 1. must count accurately for fairness to horse 2. I can demolish a jump without destroying my confidence.  The jumps fall for a reason.  So long as mistakes are not … Continue reading →

I’m a terrible organizer of things like paper and laundry. I have a very difficult time deciding on categories in which to sort things. I am also a master procrastinator, which means that sometimes most of the time (to my … Continue reading →

I used to go to a lot of clinics, but I hadn’t gotten into a regular lesson routine. There was the whole resource issue (money & time) and as the anti-DQ I have been a bit of a resistant rider … Continue reading →

This will be short on words. These are the videos from the show a couple of weeks ago. The first one, is the 60.5 test (woot!) and my friend took the video and uploaded, so it is on her youtube, … Continue reading →

Day 2 of the show wasn’t so great. It wasn’t terrible, but while we still got 6th place, we missed our goal of 60% by a large margin. I was very glad to have video. I did have a good … Continue reading →

Bali was awesome!!! We were better in the warm up (this is always the case), but it was a respectable test! Our changes were late behind, which they have not been for a while, but I blame show nerves, and … Continue reading →

Tomorrow at 1:29pm, Bali & I (collected) trot down center line in ring 3 at Morven Park. I’ll sleep in a bit, until 7 or so, then will go out to bring the horses in to eat breakfast. Pat said … Continue reading →

Today was a busy day. Suzy came out and we took Tanq & Romeo out on an early trail ride, she wanted to get a ride on before we took Romeo in for neck & knee injections. We’d decided he … Continue reading →

At the show in November, I had an error on my test in Third Level Test 2. I forgot the 20m canter circle, showing release of reins for 5-6 strides over the center line. It is after the canter half … Continue reading →