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No better time to post about the riding situation then right now, while I'm sitting at my desk with my heels streatched down against bar on the back of the desk, trying to break in my dress boots.
Tuesday I was home, so I got in a ride on Georgie. He was good, I'm getting a little more used to him, and now, he actually wants to go forward, unlike our first ride together. He was really good. Nothing really exciting happened tho. Deb told me to start using him to practice my dressage tests, so I'm going to start doing that.
Last night I had a DUET lesson. It was really fun. I got to play musical horses. The whole thing is a little unorganized, but you fnd out what horse you have, and then you have to try and find him. I was told to ride a horse named Tropper, and we were told he was the solid bay in the shedrow (there are about a million places to find horses on this farm, (the main, the schooling barn, the boys field, the shedrow, the puddle barn, the four stall, the five stall, the girls field, etc.) So I get my horse and tack up and go in the ring. Our instructor was running late because she had to help some of the other kids find their horses, things we're kind of a mess, because they had a pipe break in the main barn and had to shuffle some of the horses around. So we got a late start. The horse I was riding had the most up and down motion, it wasn't fluid at all, and it felt like his front and his back weren't even connected. But after I while I settled into him, I waqlked around the areana one way and then the other, and did the same for the trot. Then all of a sudden the trainer goes, "I think you have the wrong horse. This is Gaston. We have to get you a different horse, He's been good but he's a little green in the jumping, you won't like him. But keep troting him." Then she yells to every one in the ring, "Stay away from this horse, He doesn't like other horses around him, Stay away!" This is after I've already spent 20 minutes wweaving around people, riding next to people, etc. and he was fine. (dumb, I know.)
So I got another horse for the jumping. His name was Magnum. Another solid bay. Only he wasn't as skinny so I felt a little more comfy on him right away. But he was a monster! They were like "be care he tries to bite when you tighten the girth. So I figured like a normal horse he would just stand there while you were next tohim, and then reach back quickly to try and bite when he saw you going for the girth...NO! I'm just standing at his side, and he has his head turned to me, with his mouth already open, to bite me, so I pushed his head and neck away and got in his face a little, to try and be dominant and he left me along while i tightened his girth. I led him in the ring and got up on the mounting block and am standing next to him, to hop on, and he flings his head back to bite me, luckily he pretty much just wolloped me with his head, but he almost knocked me off the mounting block. So the trainer came over and pushed him around a little bit and held his head while I mounted, and that was it. I got to trot him around twice, which he was fine at the trot, and canter him around three time, he didn't want to go forward so it was a little uneven and bounce, but still good. then we started jumping. When he saw the jumps his stride opened up into a nice canter, and he jumped well. We did a small cross rail twice at the trot, twice at the canter, and then we put together a small course. Down the long side over two box jumps, and up the diagnal vertical (two jumps). He we did really well, except on our first time around the course on the first jump he was a little hesitant and kind of did a stop and hop, but it was alright, we smoothed it out for the rest of the trips around.
Thats about it, the more I'm around these problem horses the more I realize how wonderful and amazing Bonfire is. I haven't seen him in weeks though, so I definately am going to see him this weekend if I have time. Even if it's just to brush him and chill.
Tuesday I was home, so I got in a ride on Georgie. He was good, I'm getting a little more used to him, and now, he actually wants to go forward, unlike our first ride together. He was really good. Nothing really exciting happened tho. Deb told me to start using him to practice my dressage tests, so I'm going to start doing that.
Last night I had a DUET lesson. It was really fun. I got to play musical horses. The whole thing is a little unorganized, but you fnd out what horse you have, and then you have to try and find him. I was told to ride a horse named Tropper, and we were told he was the solid bay in the shedrow (there are about a million places to find horses on this farm, (the main, the schooling barn, the boys field, the shedrow, the puddle barn, the four stall, the five stall, the girls field, etc.) So I get my horse and tack up and go in the ring. Our instructor was running late because she had to help some of the other kids find their horses, things we're kind of a mess, because they had a pipe break in the main barn and had to shuffle some of the horses around. So we got a late start. The horse I was riding had the most up and down motion, it wasn't fluid at all, and it felt like his front and his back weren't even connected. But after I while I settled into him, I waqlked around the areana one way and then the other, and did the same for the trot. Then all of a sudden the trainer goes, "I think you have the wrong horse. This is Gaston. We have to get you a different horse, He's been good but he's a little green in the jumping, you won't like him. But keep troting him." Then she yells to every one in the ring, "Stay away from this horse, He doesn't like other horses around him, Stay away!" This is after I've already spent 20 minutes wweaving around people, riding next to people, etc. and he was fine. (dumb, I know.)
So I got another horse for the jumping. His name was Magnum. Another solid bay. Only he wasn't as skinny so I felt a little more comfy on him right away. But he was a monster! They were like "be care he tries to bite when you tighten the girth. So I figured like a normal horse he would just stand there while you were next tohim, and then reach back quickly to try and bite when he saw you going for the girth...NO! I'm just standing at his side, and he has his head turned to me, with his mouth already open, to bite me, so I pushed his head and neck away and got in his face a little, to try and be dominant and he left me along while i tightened his girth. I led him in the ring and got up on the mounting block and am standing next to him, to hop on, and he flings his head back to bite me, luckily he pretty much just wolloped me with his head, but he almost knocked me off the mounting block. So the trainer came over and pushed him around a little bit and held his head while I mounted, and that was it. I got to trot him around twice, which he was fine at the trot, and canter him around three time, he didn't want to go forward so it was a little uneven and bounce, but still good. then we started jumping. When he saw the jumps his stride opened up into a nice canter, and he jumped well. We did a small cross rail twice at the trot, twice at the canter, and then we put together a small course. Down the long side over two box jumps, and up the diagnal vertical (two jumps). He we did really well, except on our first time around the course on the first jump he was a little hesitant and kind of did a stop and hop, but it was alright, we smoothed it out for the rest of the trips around.
Thats about it, the more I'm around these problem horses the more I realize how wonderful and amazing Bonfire is. I haven't seen him in weeks though, so I definately am going to see him this weekend if I have time. Even if it's just to brush him and chill.