tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47285324941086337572024-03-17T22:42:33.258-07:00The Reeling: An Unexpected MareventureAndreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15902291220984883182noreply@blogger.comBlogger587125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4728532494108633757.post-87651278851605924632018-01-31T07:42:00.002-08:002018-01-31T07:42:55.219-08:00Update: Dylan<br />
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Here's the update you've been waiting for... Dylan's!!</div>
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There is so much to write about here that I've been stalling finishing it. Too much to write. Mostly I'll just share a brief show synopsis, pics, and videos. Then I'll finally feel like I can move back onto regular blogging. There is just so much here to update that it's been impossible to start, you know? Not to mention the fact that I'm still trying to do this on my phone, which is terrible. </div>
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Dylan had a killer end to the year. Following August, when I was last blogging actively, Dylan had USDF Regionals, Haras Cup, and two Heart of Texas working equitation shows that he went to. He was also supposed to do a fifth show, but karma stepped in and got me out of that one - it was the literal week before my wedding, there was SO much to do, and fate decided to give Dylan a fat leg for a week. He's fine, it was just a minor dermatitis (actually I think he slept in ants), but it still worked out for the best honestly!<br />
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<u><b>Region 9 Championships:</b></u><br />
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Regionals was one of the most fun weekends of the year. It was low pressure and high in fun. I stayed with one of my best buds from college who now lives in Houston, and we had a great time. <a href="http://pieceofheaven1951.blogspot.com/">JenJ</a> was there, <a href="http://www.hand-gallop.com/">Stephanie</a> was there, and several other people I know were too. At one point, after coming out of my GAIG 3-3 test, there were like 8 good friends there standing in a group that all didn't know each other, but that knew me. That was super cool. I know I've been the lone wolf at shows for many years, but this past year has really shown me that showing is definitely more fun with friends. Especially since I've reached the age where it's a good excuse to drink wine and have a good time more than be panicky about scores.<br />
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We were in two Championship classes - one was the GAIG Region 9 Third Level AA class, and one was the SWDC (Southwest Dressage Championships) Third Level AA class. I went to Regionals with absolutely no other goal than to put in the best rides I could. I just can't beat those AAs on perfectly made super fancy warmbloods, and I'm completely okay with that. I can't turn out low to mid-70s every ride like they can. But what I CAN do is bang out a sufficiently good mid to high-60s score when we're really on our game, and I also feel like as we go up a level this year, the accuracy I can produce will outscore some of the fanciness of the warmbloods. And what else I can do is beat every other Andalusian or Lusitano in my classes. Dylan is, not that I'm biased or anything, one of the best moving Andalusians I've ever seen. He can use his hind end and he can be flamboyant at the same time. Whether or not I can always put the two halves of the whole horse together is another story, but he can do it. When he's on, he can do it.<br />
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And that's what we did. Except, with errors. I don't know if it's due to my numerous head injuries or what, but I am having absolutely the worst time remembering my dressage tests. I've ridden 3-3 what, a million times by now? And I forgot movements in BOTH my tests and had errors. And they were different movements! In the SWDC class, I for some reason started a half pass where I should have been doing a shoulder-in. In the GAIG class, I forgot my halt-reinback. Again! Ugh. Remind me to get a reader. In the SWDC class I had one good clean change that scored a 7, and one totally change that was a tick late behind. The judge at A missed it, the judge at E did not, and gave me a 4. That plus my error, and my okay-but-just-holding-it-together walk scored us a 62.8% and an 8th place out of I think 15 or 16 horses. Not our best test, and SWDC only places through 6th, but ah well. I wasn't unhappy since the mistakes were all just human pilot error.<br />
The GAIG class went quite a lot better although both those changes were *almost* not quite perfect. Dylan has a tendency to plant both hinds while he's changing in front, which the judge doesn't always catch, but when they're picky about it that usually scores a 5. A 5 is fair for that I think! Changes are kind of his sticky thing and I'm not always a strong or coordinated enough rider to get my timing absolutely perfect, so it's rewarding when he gets them perfectly. Still, he scored 8s on his lateral work and would have scored higher had I not bogged him down a little through his changes, and through his mediums and extensions. It was good enough to score a 64.6% and land him 6th place in a class of 18. Everyone else above me scored mostly in the 70s with an errant high 60s in there. And I got to ride in my first victory gallop with Dylan!<br />
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<b><u>Haras Cup:</u></b><br />
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Oh man there's a lot to tell about Haras. I don't even know where to begin. Perhaps it needs to be fully elaborated upon in its own entry, but for now I'll give the brief report!<br />
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Haras is this enormous huge shindig. It's like a huge party with a horse show going on in the middle of it. Ferraris decorate the place, and the local elites come to wear outrageous hats and outfits and gossip together in the stands. The facility is beautiful and clean, the horses are fine, the people watching is exceptionally good. Haras has everything - a spa, a resort, a restaurant, fountains, architecture, and fine Portuguese horses. We showed under 5 judges for each phase, 3 of which were international (2 Portuguese and one French judge). That created some drama over the course of the four day weekend as the French and American judges were scoring everyone consistently 10 percentage points higher than the Portuguese judges. The Portuguese judges were *harsh.* I mean really harsh. My dressage score average was about a 58% - fair, it wasn't a great test - but the Portuguese judges were knocking me down to the low 50s. They knocked everybody else down there too. And in my EOH they scored me in the low 50s too! Dylan was hot and strong in his dressage, but just tired enough to be perfect in the EOH, and I thought it was one of the better ones we've done. Blips here and there for sure - our single slalom wasn't great with the changes (first obstacle), and the cloverleaf barrels he trotted at the third barrel (a big no no, fourth obstacle), and he swapped out briefly behind in the double barrels (second obstacle). The double slalom (third obstacle) was absolutely the best I've ever ridden, it was rhythmical for the most part and I got all the changes perfectly. The one Portuguese judge scored me a THREE on it! Watch the video and see what you think.<br />
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So dressage was eh, EOH was great but scored low. Speed was good too - he touched the inside of the bell corridor and got tagged for that, and he's never particularly fast, but we were both tired by that time so we just sort of flopped our way through it!<br />
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We had issues with water in the barn all weekend, so please don't mind my horse's poopy yellow tail in any of these pictures!<br />
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The rest of the show was fun people watching, fun alcohol drinking, great company, and even a crazy Gala diner with entertainment. We were all freezing since it was super cold and we were in cocktail attire, but staying for Moet champagne and watching aerial performers hanging from the rafters of an indoor arena was so worth it! I really should give this thing its own entry, there's too much to tell.<br />
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I'd been thinking a lot about why I always scored much better in USDF dressage than in WE dressage. I watched some of the top riders, I talked it over with people. I came to the conclusion that WE scoring comes down very hard on tension and inaccuracy. In USDF dressage, that bit of tension can create a crazy fancy mover, but in WE dressage it gets dinged really hard. So, I dialed his energy down a notch... or a lot of notches... for the 4th HoT series show in Waco. It worked, and my dressage score jumped to a 64% from the consistent 58% that I had been scoring. I followed that up with a not-very-great EOH, which scored a 58%. I had the right amount of "just a little tired" energy for dressage, which then fell to "not enough energy" for EOH. This was a back to back weekend with Haras, so I wasn't surprised. The changes just weren't there, and we floundered through a backwards metal gate, something he had never done before. But he made it through! I had no horse (or person) really left in speed, so we took it pretty easy. He was tired, and I was tired. But I had figured some things out, and that was important for the next upcoming show.<br />
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This show was where I really felt like I pulled everything together, finally, at the end of the year. Dylan had a sufficiently good dressage with a 62%, and a solid EOH with a 64%. Some mistakes - double slalom has a few botched changes, that backwards gate again (but we lived). Highlight of the course was having to carry the garrocha through the double barrels (he went wide on the second barrel because I was so pleased he got his change perfectly that I stopped riding for a second). He had never done banks before to my knowledge either, and we hadn't done a "varied terrain" obstacle before either, but he was so game. And the speed round too was great - I actually rode instead of flailed along, and surprise surprise, it went a lot better.<br />
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Dylan was the 2017 Heart of Texas Intermediate B Amateur champion, the 2017 Confederation for Working Equitation Intermediate B Amateur champion, and 6th in the region for Intermediate overall for WE United.<br />
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Our next update is about Cregga and Mago! Then our final one will be about Dylan - it's the most in depth and will have videos and lots of pictures. </div>
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Wait who the heck is Mago!?</div>
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Well. I didn't *mean* to bring him home. He was a surprise. I didn't know I was bringing home another horse. I wasn't planning on it! </div>
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At Haras Cup this year, the winners of all the divisions were put into a raffle to win an even bigger prize. The professional division winners were put into a raffle to win a $20,000 watch. The amateur division winners were put into a raffle to win a Haras bred 2016 Lusitano colt. This was a complete surprise to me - and an even bigger surprise when they pulled MY name out of the silver plate. They led the colt up right then and there, and handed me his lead rope! I'll have a full write up on Haras in Dylan's update. It was quite an experience!</div>
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So anyway, now I had this colt on the end of the lead rope, to my total surprise and delight. I technically had an open slot in my trailer, so... off we went home! Before we headed out, I was promised his papers and told his name - Mago. (Pronounced "Mah-go" which means magician in Spanish. Fitting since he just magically showed up on my trailer!) He loaded right onto my trailer and right off again easily when we got home, with no problems at all. Pretty much the first thing I did when I got him was geld him, and then the second he was ready he got kicked out into the mare field. It wasn't a second too soon either, considering Dylan was NOT taking to having a new set of cajones on the property and was attacking the fencelines with a savagery I've never seen out of him before (and hope to never again). </div>
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He's been completely cool for the most part. A little weird with his feet, and not very nice to Cregga post-weaning, but he doesn't care about anything else. He stands tied for all kinds of grooming, and I can even walk out into the field with him loose and throw a blanket on him no problems. He will be two in March, so he's about to start learning about bridles, saddles, and life in general. I may not keep him forever, but I will get him going under saddle and see what he's capable of!</div>
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She's been steadily growing and growing. When sticked last month, she was almost 14.2. Mago is 14.3 in front and 15 behind, so they're currently wearing the same size blankets. She's been in baby school like normal for her age - leading, tying, grooming, trimming, clipping, etc. </div>
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Four days ago, we weaned her, and put her out with the top pasture herd. Unlike with Mago, who settled right in, Cregga is not assimilating well with her new friends. O and Dylan have already forgotten she exists, but she has not forgotten they exist. She has spent a lot of time walking the fence and refusing to eat, although she did play some with Pax today. Mago attacked her several times and for a minute I thought he was going to put her through the fence. She in return has not been friendly with any of them, and has been chasing them all away from her, or running from them. Things are slowly, slowly, slowly settling down but she has not figured out how to walk to the far side of the pasture to eat hay. This of course worries me to no end, so I can't help but drag some hay over to her so that she can at least eat *something*. It's been a very high stress weaning for everyone involved. Although admittedly I am not surprised... Cregga is her parents' child after all, and they're completely full of emotional diarrhea themselves. Raw talent and power, athleticism and ability.... aaaaaaand a little bit emotionally unstable. Hopefully they'll settle down soon. She's my baby, the one I'm super excited about, the one who is going to replace both of her parents, so I can't help but worry about her. </div>
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These pictures are all from the past three months, so you'll see her in various sizes and colors of grey!</div>
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P is doing so much better this winter. She really struggled this summer - I expected she wouldn't survive the heat, but somehow she did. We got lucky and had a very reasonable summer - not too hot and not too muggy. Because of that, I managed to nurse her through the summer with extra feedings, beer, hosings, and cooling techniques. Next year I will have to put her on One AC and maybe put out another fan for her. Or, she may not survive. Last year was the roughest yet. I guess we will see.</div>
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But she's been doing so great that I even got on her and walked her around recently. I would love to put her lightly back under saddle but I don't know if I will. I don't want to kill her and she's not very sound, but she is very game. I think we will just have to see, but I don't think we have many, if any, summers left in her.</div>
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O is still doing her momma thing! She's bred back but we will have to see if she holds though the winter. We decided after all to go with a fall breeding and fall foal, which I've never done before but is apparently pretty routine down here in Texas. You wouldn't typically do that up North because it gets too cold for neonates. She is about 100 days along and just got her first rhino shot! She looks awesome and lately I've been really missing working her. This next foal is sold if it's a colt - and going to be kept as a pair for Cregga if it's a filly!</div>
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Can you believe Pax will be there in April!? When did that happen!? She is still very small but looking more mature. I have hope she might make 15.2 or 3 but she's still just barely over 15 hands. The small size had to come from P, which seems to be consistent with this stallion. P's first foal was TINY when I saw her as a 3 year old - maybe 14.1 or 2, if that, literal pony size - which at the time I chalked up to that stallion and it being her first foal. Apparently it's just a consistent thing with P... Throws very small size.</div>
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That said, she's turning out to be a better mover than I thought. For awhile, I thought she couldn't trot, but now that she has grown some she can again. Her canter, which was pretty for awhile, currently isn't very good, but I think it will come back. </div>
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I'm not big on starting early and working hard at a young age, but this fall she'll be lightly backed and learn some basic who's-go stuff. There are several little local fun type shows throughout the year that have halter classes, and I'll definitely be taking her to those for some life experience. Then when she's ready, school will begin in the fall. </div>
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Heyyyy maybe she can match with O for a pair! Check out the comparisons between the two of them in that last picture!<br />
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Okay. I AM still trying to post these updates. I'm just having a hard time trying to get it done with just my phone and my iPad. The phone is too difficult to type in to make it worth doing decent posts, and my iPad relies on my horrible internet - the only thing we have here is satellite and it hasn't been connected for several days for whatever reason. I abandoned my laptop some months ago because I never use it and a dog had eaten the power cord, but if I really want to realistically blog I need to go get a new cord and try there. I am typing on my phone right now and it's giving me an unnecessary amount of rage.</div>
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I have posts drafted on my iPad that I just can't post until our internet decides to come back. So, stick with me. They'll be up sometime in the next century, I hope.</div>
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The last three months have mostly been focused on Dylan and the wedding, but the littles are all still hanging around having a good time! They're been in small amounts of work, but nothing terribly consistent. Planning a wedding is like having a second full time job, on top of my more than full time job, on top of trying to keep a show horse fit and actively showing... there's just not enough time!</div>
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My 'Ratchy hasn't done hardly anything for the past few months. She slipped her halter off at some point, and pretty much has gone feral. She takes treats, and gets looked over, but while she became pretty tame with all her handling she never really became friendly - she just doesn't like to seek out the people. It's just her personality! One of these days when I have time, I need to corral her into a small pen and get her halter back on, then work with her until she tames back down a little more. Mules are funny like that, if you leave them alone they go feral on you. If you work with them all the time they're great, but if you don't they might go wild on you until you work them down again.</div>
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Uma is doing exactly what I wanted her to do - she's reached an age where she can start to learn about harnessing and lunging, and she is! She's learning how to lunge, how to wear boots, how to be patient. I don't have a harness small enough to fit her, so she hasn't worn one of those yet. I am not sure she's going to be large enough to bother breaking to drive though... she is a tiny little shrimp. Tiny little shrimps don't really make the best driving animals - it's a lot of work for them and they can't make the times that bigger minis can make. </div>
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Zoodle is doing great. He also didn't do much until after the wedding, but he's been back in work. He's getting better and better about lunging - it's sort of forward in these tiny one inch increments at a time, but it's coming. Zebras have no work ethic whatever, so finding his work ethic is something of a challenge sometimes. He loves people and he likes to be doing stuff with the people, but when it's kind of boring or sort of hard, he really wants to know why he should bother, and heavy bribery is what gets him understanding that it's something good. One new problem that has popped up is with the addition of the sidereins - he wears a bit quietly until there's one little bit of pressure on it, then he flips his tongue right over the bit. That is a habit we can't be forming or I'll never break it. He needs to wear sidereins because he has a big fat thick bracey neck, and he needs to learn to give to pressure or I'll never be able to turn him - zebras brace! Part of it is that he has a big fat tongue and doesn't like any tongue pressure, so the little straight bar mullen mouth that worked great for the mules does not work for him at all. Snaffles seem to be the same. So, what I've done (and will be experimenting with) is found a high ported snaffle with a Wonder Bit ring, the English kind. This is not a bit I would put on a normal baby, but he is not a normal baby. By setting the headstall on the top part of the ring, and the sidereins on the snaffle, I can set where the port will lay in his mouth, i.e. not acting on his palate. Rather, what this hopefully will do is both create tongue space for him, but also the high port should make it really hard if not impossible to get his tongue over the bit. I'll report back to see if it works!</div>
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Well well. I AM still alive believe it or not! </div>
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Part of the reason I've been out is that a dog chewed up the power cord to my laptop, my preferred blogging platform. I don't like typing on my phone or my iPad, and haven't gone to replace the cord yet. I'm actually on Future Hubs' laptop right now. And he's part of the other reason I've been too busy to blog - instead of Future Hubs, he is now actual Hubs! Our wedding was in November and it's been a complete whirlwind before and after, with wedding prep, work, and horse shows taking up every second of every day. I just haven't had time to blog... I've barely had time to sleep!</div>
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I hope to make this coming year different. I hope to make sure I have enough time for myself. Enough time for play, enough time for blogging, enough time for riding and enough time to pretend like I have something resembling a social life. It's not going to be completely possible of course, but I am going to try. I did not do a good job of balancing that out this year. In fact I would say I did a decidedly bad job of it.</div>
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Despite that I have a LOT of updates! What I'm going to try and do is put up a brief catch-up synopsis for each horse. I have a lot of show updates from Dylan, and I have a new horse! Quite on accident actually... that's a whole story in and of itself. Wow there is a lot to tell. I'll never get it all out but I'm going to make sure I at least get the highlights, and I want to go over my 2018 goals too. I may not do a 2017 Yearly Review, seeing as a whole quarter of the year is missing from the blog, but we will see. I have a week off starting on the 28th, so I *should* in theory have some time to write!!</div>
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2017 was a year of highs and lows. It was better in a lot of ways than 2016 was, but there were some decidedly bad parts to counter the decidedly good parts. I have a feeling though that 2018 is really going to be a good one. I feel much better about the coming year than I did coming into 2017. And 2017 really did play out like I expected... I made a point to make the best of it that I could, and all of the things that I worked hard for all came true, but inbetween those things it was about as rough as I expected.</div>
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It's time for a photo dump!! Loooooooooooooong overdue. This will def be a picture heavy post.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Frank was soooooooooooo shiny</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Uma, being a big grown up girl</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Too bad the bridle doesn't fit, it would be so cute</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pax and Cregga, 6 months old. Cregga is a full hand taller than Pax was at the same age.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gee where does Cregga get her side eye from I wonder</td></tr>
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I wrote almost nothing in August. To be completely honest with everyone, I've been really having a hard time emotionally lately, and just can't quite get myself together. I've barely ridden at all in the past two weeks, and haven't worked with any of the babies. The loss of Frank hit me hard, and the hurricane totally blew me out of the water. It just was a terrible month. Nothing important got done and I had no motivation to do anything but barely keep my head afloat. I hope September will be better... I got on Dylan and went for a walk hack today, and felt much better afterward. </div>
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My goals have had to be altered since Hurricane Harvey happened. Harvey of course struck the Texas coast, and along with all the other devastation it caused, it also forced the cancellation of the Laborious Day show, with no refunds. All of that is completely fine, and totally trivial compared with the devastation other people have faced, so I'm in no way complaining. But because I missed my chance at my 4th level debut, and didn't have the ability to get in any other 3rd level tests before the closing days for Regionls and Nationals, I won't be going to Nationals. That makes me sad, and I feel disappointed that I won't be going out at 4th level at all this year. Regionals is the last dressage show, then we have Haras Cup and three other WE shows in Nov and Dec. Our wedding is coming up, and I don't have random money to throw around at dressage shows that won't count for anything much. HDS was kind enough to offer partial refunds, but I still have a budget I have to stick to. Looking over the whole year so far, I've accomplished so much! But it wasn't all of what I wanted to accomplish, not nearly. Nationals, the AWS show in Vegas, and going out at 4th level - all things I wanted to do, and all things I won't be doing this year.</div>
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But.... there is next year. 4th level will be waiting for us in January. Whether or not we go to Nationals or Vegas will depend of course on 1) where Nationals even is, and 2) finances, but... we will see. We will see. I'll be doing Intermediate B again next year for working eq as I am trying for my silver medal(s), and of course 4th level is the start to trying to get silver medal scores for USDF. Lots of silver things in my future, I hope. K just delivered her baby a few days ago (!!), which means I do still have Dylan for at least a couple more years! </div>
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<i>1) Continue being a good momma horse!</i><br />
Success! But, of course, not hard. I really have been missing driving her.... I would like to do a little competing in the spring with her, but we will see.<br />
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<i><b><u>Cregga August:</u></b></i><br />
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<i>1) Continue learning about leading, brushing, feet handling, bathing, and clipping!</i><br />
Success! And she's been led up and tied to the trailer grooming spot like a big girl too, which she hasn't been a huge fan about but she certainly hasn't killed anyone over it yet.<br />
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<i><b><u>Dylan August:</u></b></i><br />
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<i>1) Regular lessons and clinics! Both dressage and WE!</i><br />
Success! I've been riding with Louisa regularly of course, and Tarrin too this month. I don't know when Tarrin will be up here next but I hope to get in with her again before Haras.<br />
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<i>2) </i><i>Continue working on pirouettes and 4-tempis as usual</i><br />
Success! The tempis have been coming along well, and quarter pirouettes are easy. We're continuing to do more work with very collected canter vs just collected canter, as sometimes it feels to me like we're super collected but actually we're just going super slow. I can't always tell the difference, so Louisa's eyes on the ground really help.<br />
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<i>3) Compete in the HDS Laborious Day I and II shows at the end of the month </i><br />
Well, that didn't happen... but, Mother Nature does whatever she wants. This is the third show in a row that has been cancelled due to weather and it's really starting to get old.<br />
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<i>4) Get two more All Breed Awards scores for Third Level... and *gulp* try 4-1 for the first time!</i><br />
It would have happened.... if Hurricane Harvey wouldn't have spoiled everything.<br />
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<i><b><u>Pangea/</u></b></i><i><b><u>Pax/Uma August:</u></b></i><br />
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<i>1) Grooming/trimming every 2 weeks </i><br />
Success! Pax has been saddled a few more times too, with no issues.<br />
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<i>2) Uma: Start to do a bit more learning about lunging!</i><br />
Success! She's starting to learn the idea. But again, the last two weeks I've done nothing with anyone. I've just been too out of it.<br />
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<i><b><u>Zu July:</u></b></i></div>
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<i>1) More long lining! If I have help! </i><br />
<i>2) Lunging with harness</i><br />
<i>3) Wearing bridle - full bridle with noseband</i></div>
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<i><b><u>Sriracha July:</u></b></i></div>
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<i>1) Lunging - walk and trot</i><br />
<i>2) Wearing bridle</i><br />
<i>3) Wearing harness</i><br />
<i>4) All of course contingent on catching her feral little ass again!</i></div>
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I didn't even bother putting any of the goals for the other two babies up - I just didn't do much with them this month except groom them and do feet. I've been too out of it and miserable to really focus on anything.<br />
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<i><b><u>O-Ren September:</u></b></i></div>
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<i>1) Continue being a good momma horse!</i><br />
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<i><b><u>Cregga September:</u></b></i><br />
<i>1) Continue learning about leading, brushing, feet handling, bathing, and clipping!</i><br />
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<i><b><u>Dylan September:</u></b></i></div>
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<i>1) Regular lessons as usual!</i></div>
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<i>2) </i><i>Continue working on pirouettes and 4-tempis as usual</i></div>
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<i>3) Start prep work for Regionals and for HARAS CUP! </i><br />
<i>4) Trailer out not only to WD, but to the arena in Decatur with obstacles, to start doing more obstacle work in prep for Haras </i><br />
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<i><b><u>Pangea/</u></b></i><i><b><u>Pax/Uma/Sriracha/Zoodle August:</u></b></i></div>
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<i>1) Grooming/trimming every 2 weeks </i><br />
<i>2) Uma: Start to do a bit more learning about lunging!</i><br />
<i>3) Sriracha - Catch that little bugger again! She's been loose and feral and mean for two months now and I can't get hands on her. I'll have to run her into a chute to get her. </i><br />
<i>4) Zoodle - lunging and long lining, and wearing full bridle with noseband! He is probably going with the Zorseman this month too to get broke to drive - Boyd is doing his preliminary breaking for me!</i></div>
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Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15902291220984883182noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4728532494108633757.post-60638601014059624742017-08-24T20:29:00.000-07:002017-08-24T20:29:09.581-07:00Tarrin Teaches, Louisa Lessons, and Hurricane Harvey<div style="text-align: center;">
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Tarrin came up for lessons the weekend of August 4th. I had an early morning lesson with her on the 4th, right before Frank tanked. I love my lessons with Tarrin - they are always SO helpful. She really has helped me with Dylan more than I can say. She is always able to isolate the exact body problems that Dylan needs to have finessed out.<br />
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The arena was too wet to use, and all the obstacles had been set up in the grass outside of the arena. Tarrin has set up some ground poles in an exercise that looked like this:<br />
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So, the exercise started out with cantering up to the L shaped pole (going either left, or right), transitioning to a walk, and sidepassing over the L. It was clear that Dylan preferred one side over the other - instead of crossing over going to the right, he quick steps and shuffles over. This translated over into his lead changes, which is interesting because it seems to switch sides for me. When I'm doing exercises like the double slalom, my changes from left to right are way easier. During everything else, my changes from right to left are easier. I'm not quite sure why that is, but I guarantee it's all me.<br />
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Once we started the L exercise, Tarrin had me straighten him more, which almost felt like haunches leading to me. She assured me they weren't, and that straightening him actually made him cross over better. We then moved to something much more complicated - I would walk up to the L shaped poles and enter between the two of them (see orange arrows), then halt. We would back up, then trot directly off, leg yield either to the left or right about three or four strides, then go through the other pole corridor and change bend. When we had that more organized, we would enter at the walk, halt, back up, then canter off in either the left or right lead, half pass about three steps left or right (depending on what lead we were on), straighten through the pole corridor, and do a lead change between them. That was CRAZY hard. It was almost no time at all to prepare, and I had to be super precise, but by the end we were getting it. The half passes really engaged him right before the changes, and the pole corridor insisted that we do it straight and accurately, both things that count enormously in WE. The pole corridor was maybe two and a half feet wide, so there was no ability for him to move sideways in any kind of evasion. It was super hard, but super helpful. Accuracy is everything in WE.<br />
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It was a great lesson. Of course, Frank's death completely ruined any kind of enjoyment I had gotten out of the morning. But, I won't forget the day, ever, that's for sure.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Whoa wild stallion!! I got him a broodmare collar recently, and he has been living in that instead of in a halter. I love that I can leave the halter off him, but can still catch him. He can be INCREDIBLY hard to catch!</td></tr>
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I've been hacking him regularly, riding him at Willow Draw, and now have also started taking him to the local Aquatread to try and get some pounds off of him. There are several ATs in our area, and this one is closest - it's one I hadn't been to before. Dylan was absolutely stupid the first two times he went into the corridor - he got down into the water without issue, but then folded up his legs and sank. Once he realized he was sinking, he started thrashing around, and had to be taken out and put back in a few times before he started to understand that he could actually *touch* the bottom. The third time he finally started to get it, and walked on the treadmill for about 10 minutes. From here, the time will go up, and the speed will increase to high speed trotting. He has to work up to it though, of course! I hope it will help his fitness level, which has been really hard to maintain in this weather. It's been SO hot and humid, and he really struggles with that. Not to mention he's a fat lard.... but, details.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yes, he looks like a beluga in the water</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Staring at me. "This is definitely YOUR fault lady."</td></tr>
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We've also only been able to fit in one lesson with Louisa this month so far, which is fine although I would prefer to do two a month. Normally her lessons are on Tues and Thurs, but I recently realized she also does Sundays. I usually work on Sundays, but I managed to fit in a morning lesson last Sunday, and then worked in the afternoon. I don't usually like to do that, but sometimes you do what you have to! We had signed up for the HDS Laborious Day I and II shows this coming weekend in Houston (or well, Katy, which is basically in Houston), as another All Breed Awards score at Third level. We also signed up for our first time at Fourth level, giving 4-1 a try on each day. I told Louisa I wanted to try running through the test to iron out any of our problems, and she agreed. First though, we warmed up with some trot and canter work, doing some 10m circles at the trot and canter before switching directions (and leads). The changes all came clean, so we moved onto test work before Dylan ran out of steam, and the test actually ran great. I need to make sure I pay particular attention to geometry, especially in the first few trot movements - aside from the mediums and extensions, there is half pass to a 10m circles and then a shoulder in down the centerline. That's all good and fine, but if you're not precise with it, you'll not only overshoot the 10m circle but you'll completely lose your track on the shoulder in. Which is the point of it really, to prove you can be precise in every way.... which is hard.<br />
Everything else ran off very smoothly. The canter mediums are good, the canter extensions are not great yet. We just haven't worked on them that much. If they don't get rushy, they also don't show a whole lot of difference between the mediums. The line of three changes also went very well, although I can't always guarantee a perfectly counted amount of strides between them. We're not ready really for 4-3, but 4-1 shouldn't be a problem, and 4-2 probably wouldn't go off poorly.<br />
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So this weekend was supposed to be the HDS show right? I was excited, because not only was I going to see my friend Sarah from college who has recently moved to Houston, but <a href="http://pieceofheaven1951.blogspot.com/">JenJ</a> was going to be there and I haven't seen her in a good long while, and some other friends were going to be there too.<br />
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Ride times were posted early in the week. We were excited! We all were texting back and forth our plans for the weekend, and were busy prepping to leave on Friday.<br />
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Then we noticed something questionable on the radar. A small tropical depression was over Mexico, and there was some talk that it might become a tropical storm over the weekend.<br />
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Whatever, we though. We laughed, and bought a lot of beer. Beer makes everything fun right?<br />
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Yesterday, there was some talk that the storm, called Harvey, would probably make landfall as a tropical storm, and we would probably get pretty wet at the showgrounds. We talked about it some, as I had also agreed to move Sarah's horses to a new facility for her while I was there. I wasn't too worried about it. What's a little rain?<br />
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Then today happened. Harvey suddenly exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. This is common enough during this time of year - the Gulf is hot as bathwater. What isn't common is the fact that two low pressure systems are going to collide with and then squeeze Harvey once it hits land. It went from tropical storm with a possible landfall as a weak Category 1 hurricane to a strong Category 3 and maybe even Category 4 hurricane. This will be the first major hurricane to strike the US in almost 12 years, and the first hurricane at all to hit Texas in 9. For reference, the last hurricane to hit Texas was Ike - if you remember, <a href="http://eventing-a-gogo.blogspot.com/2008/11/gogo-history-american-eventing.html">I have a little story about Ike</a>!!<br />
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Not surprisingly, the show cancelled. Harvey is going to bring potentially devastating and life threatening conditions to the state, and so we're all staying home. They are trying to reschedule for next weekend, which I could absolutely make happen - but we will have to see. In the meantime, keep everyone on the coast in your thoughts - there have been mandetory evacuations in several areas, but for those who are staying in the non-mandatory areas, it's going to be one rough weekend.<br />
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Thank you all for sending your condolences.... it means a lot to me. I'm still a little bit in shock over it to be honest with you. Just doesn't seem to be real yet. And it's awfully lonely without him banging on my gate every night. Obviously I haven't been around for my goals until now, already in the middle of the month. </div>
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<i>1) Continue being a good momma horse!</i><br />
Success! Not hard to do though... she is a wonderful mother.<br />
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<i>2) Get back to work.... start riding again! And driving again? Depending on the tiny brat child and how unhelpful she is... I don't need the kid climbing into my carriage. </i><br />
I actually stalled out on this one because taking O away from Dylan and Cregga was causing some major drama. Not from her, and not really even from her child, but from Dylan. The stress of her being on the other side of the fence - where he could see her - was causing him such enormous distress that he would go off his feed and get diarrhea after every ride. Normally I tend to lean towards "suck it up and you'll get over it," but with a hyperemotional horse like Dylan who does not need to be giving himself ulcers or hurting himself while running like an idiot in the pasture, I decided it's just better to not work her for now.<br />
So we will have to see what happens over the winter. In theory I would love to get her back between the shafts and show her some in the spring, then breed her like before and pull her from the show string mid-year just like last time. It worked out great. It will depend on Dylan's show schedule though! He's still the biggest priority at the moment.<br />
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<i>1) Continue learning about leading, brushing, feet handling, bathing, and clipping!</i><br />
Success! It's mostly just a continuing process.<br />
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<i>2) Finalize registration papers - if the stuff ever gets here...</i><br />
Success! She has been microchipped and her DNA hair samples have been sent off. Now, we just wait....<br />
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<i>3) Learn a bit more about walking/trotting in hand and standing still, like she would need to do for a show</i><br />
Success! I was starting to do this with the idea that I might take her to Nationals. More thought put into this has made me decide not to pursue it this year. She'll be 8 months old at the time of Nationals, and god knows 8 month old babies can be REALLY ugly. It's also a time when their immune systems are still super vulnerable. It's probably just not worth the risk. She does trot in hand now though!<br />
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<i>1) Regular lessons and clinics! Both dressage and WE!</i><br />
Success! I lessoned/cliniced with Tiago and Louisa in July, and just did another one with Tarrin on Friday, which I will be writing about.<br />
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<i>2) </i><i>Continue working on pirouettes and 4-tempis as usual</i><br />
Success! The pirouettes to the left are really coming on nicely. The better I sit, the better it goes. To the right, not so great but they're coming. The tempis are actually coming along a lot better than before, since I put him back in the double. The double seems to give me a level of finesse that I struggled with in the snaffle - where I can really get him straight and accurate at the same time. In the snaffle, it's sometimes one or the other and he can be strong and bargey when he thinks he knows what's coming. We are - *gulp* - going to attempt 4-1 at the end of the month and see how much of a disaster it is. In 4-1, there are no pirouettes and three flying changes of lead in a row that aren't technically tempis even though they unofficially are.<br />
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<i>3) Compete in the Haras summer show... as a prep for the actual Haras Cup!!</i><br />
Well that was a bust... but only because the show got cancelled! Ohhhh well! The next Haras B-rated show is the same weekend as the Pete Ramey clinic which I will be attending.<br />
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<i>4) Ride in a clinic with Tiago Ernesto!</i><br />
Success! <a href="https://uncatchablenumber257.blogspot.com/2017/07/tiago-ernesto-clinic-78-79.html">I wrote up about it here. </a><br />
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<i>1) Pony some babies - maybe! Trails if it's not too hot!</i><br />
We did hit the trails! I will be writing out our last trail adventure together. I'm heartbroken that there will be no more of them. He was so, so good on our final one and it's so weird to think there will be no more.<br />
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<i><b><u>Pangea/</u></b></i><i><b><u>Pax/Uma June:</u></b></i><br />
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<i>1) Grooming/trimming every 2 weeks </i><br />
Success! Babies are all doing well, aside from Uma getting injured on the 4th of July. Crap, another thing to write about....<br />
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<i>1) Go off property with Dylan for lessons</i><br />
I've been debating about this one, because I WANT to do it but I don't fully trust the two of them together in the trailer. They're both very aggressively male sometimes, even though Zoodle is gelded, and I can see a fight breaking out if they get a little too close. It's hard to trailer anywhere in company when you have a stallion. Not sure what to do about it either except for take Zoodle separately.<br />
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<i>2) Lunging with harness</i><br />
Success! And we did a little bit of long lining too!<br />
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<i>3) Wearing bridle</i><br />
Success! I have a full bridle I need to put on him now too, since the baby bridle is just a strap of leather with a bit attached. He flipped his tongue over the bit when we were long lining - tongues really seem to be a problem with these mules, I've had trouble with both him and Sriracha doing that and never once have I ever had a problem with a horse baby doing it - but raising the bit way too high helped stop it. Still, it's not ideal. </div>
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<i>1) Lunging - walk and trot</i><br />
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I fully admit I did absolutely nothing with Sriracha this past month. She got her halter off in the beginning of the month and that little creep has not let me catch her since. What I need to do is put some panels into the pasture and run her into them, then get her catch halter back on, then start over. She's so great once she's caught, but my god you can NOT catch her if she doesn't want to be caught. Little stinker... she definitely has lived up to her name! She'll be an awesome driving mule but man she is not all that fond of humans. Not like Uma and Zoodle, anyway. </div>
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<i><b><u>O-Ren August:</u></b></i></div>
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<i>1) Continue being a good momma horse!</i><br />
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<i><b><u>Cregga August:</u></b></i><br />
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<i>1) Regular lessons and clinics! Both dressage and WE!</i></div>
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<i>3) Compete in the HDS Laborious Day I and II shows at the end of the month </i><br />
<i>4) Get two more All Breed Awards scores for Third Level... and *gulp* try 4-1 for the first time!</i><br />
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<i>1) Grooming/trimming every 2 weeks </i><br />
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<i>1) More long lining! If I have help! </i><br />
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<i>1) Lunging - walk and trot</i><br />
<i>2) Wearing bridle</i><br />
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I have a plan for the rest of show season. At the end of August is the HDS Laborious Day shows I and II, which gives me two chances to get more scores at 3rd level for All Breed Awards. I'm also going to *gulp* attempt 4-1 at each. We're ready for it but not for 4-1 or 4-3 yet. The pirouettes are coming along fine but I can't always reliable count in the tempis. That's the last thing that really needs some hard work.<br />
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The reason why I wanted to get out and try 4-1 is because there is a lingering question of IALHA Nationals. I've been griping about it for awhile now - they used to have a super saver fee for the little guys, where you paid a flat fee and then got to show in as many classes as you wanted. That made Nationals affordable. Now they did away with the super saver, and it's just per class. It's VERY expensive - you're over the super saver money limit in just four classes. People could show in a dozen or more classes before.<br />So, I wasn't going to go. IALHA awards don't mean a ton to me as the organization is really separate from my real interests. They also did away with working equitation at Nationals this year, which made a lot of people really upset. They had their reasons but I didn't think they were great ones.<br /><br />What's interesting about Nationals is that they're held in Katy, and they start one day after Regionals and SW Championships are held, which are also in Katy and which I am definitely attending. They're held at the same facility. Literally I would already be there. I am definitely going to Regionals/SW Champs, which are all held together in one show. Most likely, I will just show in the Regionals class and the SW Champs class, so that I can go easy and just focus on those and not have to worry about other classes. Do we stand a chance of winning anything? Absolutely not but we might place! A top 10 finish and a score I feel good about would be great for me.<br /><br />So I had an idea. The dressage classes for Nationals are held on the opening day of the show, Tuesday the 10th. Regionals ends the 8th. I had a hairbrained idea. I'm already qualified for Nationals at 3rd level, which is easy to do - you just need a 58% for a test at your level. So, technically, if I manage a 58% or better at 4th at the Laborious Day show, I could show both 3rd and 4th at Nationals on that same Tuesday to make it worth my while. On my day in between, I could take Dylan to the famous Galveston beaches and go for an amazing ocean ride.<br />
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It will depend, of course, on how well the Laborious Day shows go.<br /><br />And of course, the biggest thing to me is Haras Cup, at the end of October. THAT is my biggest goal of the year.<br />
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So. One show at the end of this month, nothing in September, Regionals/SW Champs and Nationals and Haras Cup in October, then two small WE shows in November, then we get MARRIED, then one final WE show in December, then he goes on rest through Christmas! Man this year is crazy. But it's worth it, every second of it.<br />
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Of all the posts I expected to be starting today, this was not one of them. I was going to write about August Goals. I was going to write about my lesson with Tarrin. And I was going to write about my first off-property trail ride with Frank, and how much fun it was, and how much I was looking forward to hitting All The Trails with him this fall.</div>
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But I'm writing about none of those things, because Frank is dead. </div>
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There is no way to be less blunt about it. He's dead and I'm still reeling a little bit. I did not expect this. I could not have guessed this would happen. I never would have thought he would be the next to go. Sure, he was an old man, but he was the healthiest of the oldies. I thought we might lose Pmare this year due to how poor she's handling the heat. But I thought Frank would live forever.</div>
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It started yesterday morning. The night before, Frank had eaten his mush, was snacking on hay at night check, and had his usual cookie instead of a carrot, because he was deathly afraid of carrots for reasons only known to himself. In the mornings, he always got another bowl of mush, so he was usually waiting at the gate for me. Yesterday morning, he was not. </div>
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I called to him. I could see where he was, on the far side of the pasture on top of the hill, standing with a leg cocked. It looked like he was still asleep. I was up early because I had a lesson with Tarrin that I was locally trailering out for, so after waiting for a few minutes, I went up to see what he was doing. He wasn't doing anything really, just standing with a leg resting. He looked at me like nothing was wrong. "Well, okay then," I told him, and tossed out their morning flakes of alfalfa. Once in awhile he was a little slow to come down the hill, so at the time it wasn't altogether alarming. I headed out to my lesson, figuring he wasn't acting outright abnormal, and I was only going to be gone for a short while anyway. </div>
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I put on his halter and walked him down the hill, and gave him a heavy dose of Banamine. He still wasn't acting colicky, just... wasn't really himself. No classic signs of colic, no pawing, no kicking, no rolling. Just not eating. I put him in the small pen to monitor him and see if he was pooping. </div>
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He laid down to rest in the grass for a bit, and I got a very sweet picture of him with all his very concerned nursemaids hanging around on the other side of the fence. Dylan has always been surprisingly fond of him, though I'm not sure why. He doesn't really talk to any of the mules like he does the horses, so perhaps they smell strange to him. </div>
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I monitored him for a few hours, waiting for something to change to tell me one way or another where we were headed. Nothing. No signs of anything. He just stood there in the corner with a foot cocked, while we waited to see if there was poop (there was none). His vitals, however, started to make a downturn in the afternoon. His heart rate went up to 56, his resp went up to 36. Both of those are pretty high for a very slow moving old mule. He had almost no gut sounds. I had a terrible feeling that this wasn't going to end well but up until that point was not sure what to do. That changed in one moment when he suddenly dropped his head, and reflux and green sludge poured out of his nose. Any horse would have been on the ground thrashing well before that point, but not Frank. I pulled out my phone, called the vet, hooked up the trailer, and off we went.</div>
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The vet pulled a ton of sludge out of his stomach. It was all just chewed up and eaten food that had nowhere to go, so it just sat there for a long time. She also got quite a lot of reflux out. She did a rectal, and found nothing to note. Everything she could reach - and he had a giant cavernous body, so it wasn't too far in - felt soft and normal. So whatever it was, it was further up. Impaction, torsion, lipoma - who knows. We'll never know. And it doesn't really matter now anyway, and didn't matter much then, because a nearly 30 year old mule isn't a surgical candidate anyway. The vet tubed him and made sure he was good and loaded with meds, then we walked him out to try and wake him up a little. The fluid he had been tubed with poured out his nose every time he stopped moving, and the vet said his esophageal sphincter was loose, most likely from the drugs. She handed me a couple of syringes, one with Banamine and one with Dorm. The plan was to take him home and see if anything worked itself out, but neither of us were too optimistic. My last words to her were, "well, I'll probably see you later." </div>
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Not quite two hours later, Frank had blown through his drugs and meds completely and was uncomfortable again. I called the on-call vet, since it was now after hours, and put her on standby. We agreed to give him the syringes as the sort of "last ditch," but I told her she would likely be hearing from me again shortly. I gave the Dorm IM in the hopes that it would last him a little longer, and the Banamine was of course IV - but it took me ages to find a vein. His blood pressure by that point was so poor that I had to stick him 5 or 6 times to even find the vein at all. I even gave him a little knot, which I've never done before. I've given a million IV shots before no problem. His skin was sweaty and warm on his body, but when I felt his ears, they were icy cold. He started refluxing out his nose again. I knew then that he was going to die. </div>
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The Banamine took immediate effect, and got him to stand still right away. I had that little window of time to prepare myself for what was coming, although it was little comfort to me. I've never been quite able to tell which is better - to plan for a euthanasia and then have some days to prepare yourself and wait, or to not know it's coming and be blindsided by it? I had to deal with both in that moment. I knew he was going to die, but I was being forced into a choice right then. There was clearly only one choice to make. There was no picking a date for the next week like the last 3 I've euthanized have been. It was now, and that was that. </div>
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The drugs didn't last long. He gave a few lurches around the pen, and I frantically called the vet, frightened that he might die of his own volition before she could get there. True to Frank form, he righted himself, parked his butt in a corner, and stabilized, reflux pouring out his nose. It was dark by that time, and the vet pulled him and strapped on her headlamp. She examined him briefly - he still had no gut sounds, his heart rate was still at about 58, and his gums, which had been slightly pale but still pinkish up until this point, were starting to take on that faint blue tinge. He was teetering on the edge of shocky. This vet, who is a fresh youngster new to the practice, was one I hadn't worked with before, and she told me that if I wanted she could tube him again and we could see about doing a few more things to help him, although you could tell what she was really thinking. My usual vets know how I feel about that, and I told her that no, to me it was very clearly time. </div>
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As I led him up to the spot where we were going to euthanize, his stomach gave a loud popping growl, and he stopped dead. I'm quite sure it had ruptured in that moment. It made it all the more clear that it was time, right then. </div>
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There was a smile to be had in his last moments though. The vet heavily sedated him, but instead of getting really sleepy, he just put his head down and started eating grass. I'm sure the pressure was off his stomach, and he felt just gorked out enough with the drugs to think he was hungry. He refused to get sleepier than that, and just kept eating. It made me feel a little better to think that after all that, at the very end, he was able to eat a few mouthfuls green grass and enjoy it. </div>
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His blood pressure was so low that the vet also had a hard time finding the vein, and it took him a minute for the euth drugs to circulate, but once they did he sank very peacefully. Just like when Gogo died, when I went to pet him for the last time, he had a strong reflex the moment I touched him. Gogo only reflexed that one time and that was it, but Frank reflexed several. Even in death, that old bastard was fighting. </div>
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Frank truly has left a Frank-sized hole in my heart. I am truly, truly heartbroken to lose him. I don't even know what else to say right now. It was so sudden. He was very old, but other than his teeth he was in wonderful health. It certainly could have been the teeth that ultimately took him down, but we will never know. They took him up today to bury him alongside Gogo and Darby. </div>
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July is steaming on and nearly over, and as usual, I have no time to write about anything. Bah! So many things have happened and I can't keep up with any of them. I'll just have to do my best, because as usual, I WANT to keep everything fully updated, but I just... don't... have.... time. Any time. My problem is that I get super behind on everything, start to write, realize how much I have to get down, and get discouraged and stop. That doesn't do anyone any good. I don't know what to do really. Maybe in August I should try to just write a blurb every single day even if it's nothing much? I'm not sure how to do this. Suggestions? I feel like I need to retrain myself to write again. I'm decidedly out of the habit.</div>
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I'll do my best though. Mostly, I want to make sure I get my lessons jotted down before I lose them in my mind. They're important, and I want to make sure they're down on paper before I forget them.</div>
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<br />Tuesday was my latest lesson with Louisa, and as usual it was challenging and informative. I put Dylan back in the double recently, as I felt I was having some trouble in the canter with my changes. He is so powerful and anticipates his changes, so sometimes my halt halts take an exhausting amount of strength to get through. In the double, he is light and the aids can be crystal clear. As I learn more about riding in the double, I can become a lot more isolating in all four of my reins. </div>
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We mostly did canterwork this lesson, which I needed. K and I recently realized that I just need one more score for All Breed Awards - which I stupidly did not sign up for yet - and that in order to not incur any more penalty money than I'm already going to have to pay, I need to get an August show in to try and secure my final Third level score. I mentioned this to Louisa and also that I might like to try 4-1 for the first time at the same show, just to see how it goes. It might be a terrible disaster but it might go ok. 4-1 has a line of three changes in a row, which are not technically tempis even though they kind of are. One on the quarterline, one on the centerline, one on the quarterline - with the same amount of strides between them if you can but not the end of life if you can't. It has no canter pirouettes, just a very collected canter on a 20m circle from quarterline to quarterline. Everything else is virtually the same at 3-3, just with a greater degree of everything required.</div>
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Louisa mentioned something to me that really stuck partway through the lesson. She told me "you have a horse that could knock everyone's socks off, so sit up there like a badass and own it." She's right... Dylan is an amazing horse. And pretending like I'm a badass even though I'm really not helps me to sit up there boldly and ride boldly. She explained to me that there are three phases of learning to ride. The first is learning to move with the horse - everyone starts out floppy and bouncing against the motion of the horse. The second is being able to ride without interfering with the horse - being able to go with the motion. The third is actively influencing the motion of the horse to improve it. I'm somewhere floating between these two states. Many years of riding green or sensitive horses has given me a really good ability to be sort of soft and supple, but it's very hard for me to be strong and hard while also staying soft and supple. When we were doing work with the changes, after several of them Dylan broke to the trot because I had dropped him right after the change. Louisa described it like being the mask on a sailing vessel. She said it's almost frustrating to him to feel like his mast - meaning me - is sort of swaying around up there, when what he really needs to be sharp and brilliant is for me to be strong and still. That made so much sense to me, as I know how much the balance of a sailing vessel is altered by something being top heavy or off kilter up high. Once I had these ideas in my head, everything got an awful lot better. I was able to really support him strongly and straight through every corner, and able to straighten him and execute clean and quiet changes. When he's not straight, or I'm not straight, the changes are garbage. He doesn't give any of them away freely - everything has to be perfect. When everything is not perfect, he crossfires at worst, and bounces really hard through them at best. When everything is perfect, you almost can't feel the changes. Louisa set out a cone, and made me work in counter canter through the short sides and then come across the diagonal and perform a change right at the cone. She also had me counter canter down the long side in shoulder fore (which meant to the rail), then straighten and perform the change. It's hard to get my head around the positioning sometimes, but once I get it - I get it, and it's great. </div>
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By the end of the lesson we were both really tired, and the quality of the work goes rapidly downhill when he's tired. He wants so badly to do his work, so when he's worn out he starts to speed up and rush through everything since he can't quite hold himself in that amount of collection anymore. It was hot and humid out, and the humidity in particular seems to really affect him, so instead of pushing any more we decided to do some walk work to round out the lesson. Louisa handed me the Equicube again, which is exhausting but super effective for me. It really forces me to engage my abs and in particular the group of muscles below my shoulderblades. Louisa wants my lower back to stay as supple as it is, but I need my shoulders to be much stronger and straighter without being tense. The cube helps me because it's super clear immediately if I'm holding the cube with my core, or holding it with my arms. She even stuck a whip behind my elbows at some point, which also made a big difference for me. It's sorting out these small things that will help make big changes in Dylan - and old habits are HARD to break!</div>
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Last weekend I headed back down to the Navasota/Brenham area to ride in an invitation-only clinic with Tiago Ernesto, the head trainer at <a href="http://harasdoscavaleiros.com/">Haras Dos Cavaleiros</a>. If you're at all involved with Iberian horses or working equitation, you know Haras. The clinc itself was at Watts Way Arena, the last place I showed Dylan. The owners of Watts Way have fast become my friends and I was excited to have a chance to ride with someone as talented as Tiago. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">In July in Texas, it's HOT. This year has been especially weird because while temperatures have been slightly lower than usual - staying in the mid to upper 90s - the humidity has been outrageously high. I don't mind it being hot, but the humidity kills me. Remember this because it will come into play later.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Several of the people that were supposed to come to the clinic couldn't, as the original date has been scheduled for June and then later changed. (I originally couldn't go, but when they changed the dates I jumped on it!) There was also a lady who was supposed to bring a couple horses but then had the fuel pump in her truck go out, so all in all there were only about 5 or 6 riders a day. I was slated to ride late afternoon on Saturday, and then morning on Sunday, so that I could trailer in on Sat and then right back out again on Sunday without getting home to late. It's about a 4 hour trailer ride for me one way, if there is no traffic. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I headed out by about 8:30am, only to run into I-35 being shut down not too far into my journey. Some other small bobbles and I arrived at about 1pm or so, with plenty of time to deposit Dylan in his stall, eat some pizza, and have a peach daiquiri. It was unbearably hot and humid in the arena - even though it's covered and the swamp coolers were running full steam, there was no wind at all that day, and therefore no breeze to stir the stifling hot air. The evening before, I had gotten a little heatsick while trying to clean out my trailer tackroom, and while I sat there in the arena sweating and watching the other riders, I started to feel like I was wilting. I drank and drank and drank all the water and Gatorade that I could force myself to down, knowing that my 4pm ride time was coming up. My friend J helped me tack up Dylan, and feeling like I had done all I could do to hydrate myself, I climbed on for my lesson.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">What surprised me about Tiago is that he's a young guy. He can't be older than I am, if he's even that old at all. But he's an incredible rider and trainer. He watched Dylan and I warm up, whereupon I just trotted around posting for a bit and doing some stretchy canter to limber him up. For all that I'm excited that I can post again, I still don't seem to be able to do it all that well, and when Tiago came in the ring he told me right away that he thought I had an easier time in the canter than trot. He's not wrong, but I told him it's completely different when I sit versus when I trot, and I showed him that. He had that look on his face of "ah, yes, she's not lying." I told him one of the main problem I have is with changes - either they're fantastic or they're terrible, and there's not a lot of play inbetween. On the short diagonal, Dylan was starting to get flat and rushy into his changes, and I was too hot and tired to be able to keep that under control. So, we played with surprise changes in places he didn't expect them - down the quarterline, in the corners, random places around the arena, which really did help him. When he knows they're coming, he can get quite forward, and it's hard enough to keep him under control when I'm feeling great much less when I'm not.<br />
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We also played a bit with passage/piaffe, and whether Dylan knows how to do it. K said he has a bit of both started, and I've certainly sat on him when he was offering piaffe not on purpose, but this was the first time anyone has taken a stick and asked him from the ground to give it a try since I've had him. I'm not sure what Tiago was asking or how, but Dylan was not sure about it and didn't get a step of real piaffe. He did, however, offer something akin to passage and we went with that. I would trot along on the circle, then ask him to come up a bit more in front and almost feel like I'm sucking his back up higher through my thighs. It's a little bit hard to describe, but it came. As I understand it, having almost no experience whatever with it, every horse and rider has an individual way of doing piaffe or passage - installed a little differently, ridden a little differently. All lower level horses might be able to canter from the same cue, but not all upper level horses will learn passage from the same cue. Or something like that. Maybe? I don't know enough about it yet to say, but I hope to learn.<br />
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We also worked on bending him at the canter on a 20m circle - bending him to the left, bending him to the right, with no change of lead and no falling in or out. THAT was my undoing. I was already exhausted by this point but determined to carry on, and I don't really remember too much beyond this point because my head got all kinds of fuzzy. I just remember when we finished, we had some good work, but Dylan was clear about the fact that he was stick-a-fork-in-it-done. He kept breaking to trot over and over, like he just couldn't hold it, and I probably looked like I was going to die myself. We both went to cool out, and both of us were panting exhausted. Dylan looked just as hot and miserable as I was - I stripped him of his tack straight away, and went right to the wash stall to start strip cooling him. Poor guy.... he skidded around in the wash stall three times like he was skating on ice, partly because the washstall was slippery and partly because I think he was just that tired. I felt like I was fully cooked to death, and I hosed myself off too. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Back at the guest house, after thoroughly cooling Dylan down (although to be honest I don't remember much of what was going on, I think J moved my tack for me but I'm not sure), I flopped down onto the bed in the AC and closed my eyes for a few minutes. I slugged down as much Gatorade and water as I could handle, and eventually the room stopped spinning. A cool shower and some Ibuprofin (and more water) later, and I was feeling a bit more like myself. I checked on Dylan again, and he too was cool and eating and drinking. I felt good enough by that time to go out to Brenham with J and Tiago for some dinner and some ice cream. When we got back to the guest house, the other ladies staying there were all piling into their souped up ATV to go for a drunken midnight offroad adventure, which I of course decided to come along on. We were speeding through the night watching an approaching thunderstorm light the sky up with lightning, and I thought to myself, "I'm going to remember this night."<br />
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The next day I woke up fairly early, feeling much more like myself and glad to be riding early. My ride time was scheduled for 10am, which is much more reasonable. It seemed to be less humid too, which also helped. I asked J if we could set up some single slalom and double barrels in the ring, since I've had some trouble with both, and she agreed. Our warmup was a bit quieter than the day before, and Tiago again put us to work with some lead change work and some trot work, alternative between a fairly slow collected trot and some bouncier passage-ier trot.<br />
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I think instructors sometimes don't know what to do with us, because I generally come into a lesson going, "I'm having trouble with this thing." The instructor says okay, go do that thing and show me. So we go and do the thing, and it always goes fine, so the instructor then goes, "well... okay, but it's fine?" They also always tell me to go do a thing, and I go and do it, and it goes fine. Not to say that I'm any kind of great rider, but Dylan is a great horse who just does whatever you tell him to do. If I sit up and ride him well, it goes fine. If I ride like a sack of potatoes, it goes poorly of course, but if I can manage not to be too much of a weeble it's fine. Louisa always talks about how it's cool to teach us because she can tell us anything and we can just go out and do it for the most part, but that makes it hard for a new person to come in and teach. There just sort of aren't big huge problems. Or well, my big huge problems are hard to replicate because they usually only show up in competition. Tiago sent me off to work on the single slalom, only not the entire thing. We worked on doing the first pole, and then the last pole. And then adding in a pole, or just doing a single pole. He had me think about just pushing the horse over and changing leads versus doing big loops between the poles, as there isn't really enough room. He told me he thinks the single slalom is the toughest thing to do, and I agreed with him. But what he stressed to me made so much sense, and I just hadn't thought of it that way before - maybe you have to do it a certain way in competition, but in training there are no rules. If you want to do just one with a change, or two with a change, or a couple with changes here and there, you can! You don't have to do it one single way when you're training. You can do whatever you need to do in order to train the horse to change quietly and cleanly where he needs to. We applied the same thing to the double barrels - we made the circles as big as I needed to make them, and put the changes in where I needed to put them in to make them clean. Then we made the circles smaller, and the changes were still clean - so that fixed the issue and there wasn't anything to work on. He felt very strong to me and I didn't feel like I had good control and lightness with my canterwork, but Tiago said it looked just fine, so at least there was that. He's been a little strong in the canterwork in the snaffle, so I may put him back in the double on and off to help regain a little more lightness.<br />
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I also put J on him after our lesson was over - she trotted and cantered around on him and had a blast! He was a good boy for her, and she was all smiles. I sat on one of her Nokota horses the day before too, but just walked him, as he was just as sweaty and hot as Dylan was.<br />
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It was a fun weekend, but slightly expensive. Worth it to get some good ideas through about training certain difficult obstacles. Changes are hard with Dylan as you need to sit perfectly in order to get them cleanly, and I only sit perfectly about 10% of the time. It's hard!<br />
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The heat was the biggest bummer of the weekend. I actually was so heatsick on Friday night that I locked my keys in my truck for the first time in my entire life, and didn't realize it until morning when I couldn't find them. I had to pay some guy a hundred smacks to come out on a Sunday morning and break into my truck for me. That sucked.<br />
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We were supposed to be at Haras this weekend for their Summer Festival show, which is a B-rated WE show. It was going to be really really hot, but J was going to be there, and she encouraged me to come. Unfortunately, due to the heat, the show was cancelled at the last minute. It was a real bummer, but I guess it's not too bad of a thing. It's SO hot, and it's only going to get hotter as we get into the thick of summer.<br />
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Like most people I know - probably everybody - I can't believe half a year has flown by already. It seems like it's going extra fast this year, and I've been going nonstop crazy busy for the entirety of it! I've had so little time to blog all year and lately I've really been missing it. Which is a good thing, really.... when you miss something you make an effort to come back to it. </div>
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This year for the first time I'm also going to check in with my yearly goals, and see where we are on the checklist. Some of these goals will be altered, some added, some deleted, and some of them are of course already completed! So far the year has been really successful, albeit entirely too busy. </div>
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One more thing I'd like to do this next month - interact more with other bloggers. I read a lot of blogs, and do a lot of "oh damn I meant to catch up on this person's stuff", but I rarely comment. I'd like to make that effort, because as a whole bloggers have always been a really supportive, really fun and really interesting group of people. It's good to stay in better touch with the community. Admittedly I'm terrible in real life about keeping up with people I know too, so maybe it's just a general problem that I have. I'm stupidly busy and it leaves me little time for socializing. </div>
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<i><b><u>O-Ren June:</u></b></i></div>
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<i>1) Continue being a good momma horse!</i><br />
Success! She is a great momma horse. The best one I've had.<br />
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<i>2) Try and successfully get bred, finally... we are almost out of time for this year. </i><br />
Well, we weren't successful here. I should have cultured her at the start of breeding season and for some reason I didn't, probably because of how easy it was to get her to catch last year with no culture needed. As a result, she had a minor uterine infection that needed to be cleared up. She's been back to the vet twice for treatments now, and should be in the clear - but now it's too late to breed. Texas is too hot and it's too hard on both neonates and broodies to have them late in the year. If they're not on the ground by early May, it's just too late in my opinion, unless you have a barn with stalls and a million fans (I do not). But, we'll put her back to work this year, toodle around and maybe do some shows, and then breed again in the spring. With a culture ahead of time, of course.<br />
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<i><b><u>Cregga June:</u></b></i><br />
<i>1) Continue learning about leading, brushing, feet handling, bathing, and clipping!</i><br />
Success! She's a great little babe. Kind of obnoxious with her mouth and not very fond of water, but she stands reasonably well for trimming, grooming, and flyspray. She also has had her mane clipped and did great, leads super well, and has been trailered several times now with mom to the vet. She still is weird about loading with the ramp - she always creeps to the side and jumps onto the trailer instead of walking up the ramp, I have no idea why though as she is happy to walk off the ramp! - but she gets on and rides well.<br />
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<i>2) Send in registration papers</i><br />
Success! She was also microchipped this month by the vet (which she was a pill about, but only for the tiny little needle with the local block). She no longer fits into the foal stocks at the vet (!!), so now she gets to go in the adult stocks. But anyway, the papers have been sent in and the microchip papers have been sent back - now we are just waiting for DNA paperwork to get here so we can pluck a few hairs. I also have to send some pictures of her to them, and maybe harass them some more about the DNA stuff which isn't here yet.<br />
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<i>1) More lessons! Both dressage and WE!</i><br />
Success! The weather has been ridiculously uncooperative this month, with rain literally every weekend (in June... in Texas... wtf), but I was able to get in two lessons with Louisa and one with Tarrin. I'd like to take a lesson every other week with Louisa, and always am happy to get in with Tarrin ANY time she comes up this way, so this was a great month for me.<br />
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<i>2) </i><i>Continue working on pirouettes and 4-tempis - working towards 4th level!</i><br />
We're getting there! Quarter pirouettes are no problem but I'm still learning about how to perfect the halves. 4-1 does not have any pirouettes in it, so if I don't get there quite yet that's not a big deal. 4-2 has quarter pirouettes, and 4-3 has half ones - it's actually a really cool progression in the tests. I'm confident in doing 5's, and sometimes I can bang out a couple 4's, but I'm really not solid in these yet because I get scrambled in my counting. Dylan also tends to get to the third change and wants to get fast and flat - not sure if this is him or me. I'm pretty confident I could go out and do 4-1 right now and not make a total embarrassment of myself. K reminded me a few days ago that he isn't nominated for All Breed Awards but he SHOULD be, and all I need is one more score at 3-3 to get nominated. The cut off date is Aug 1, but if you pay a late fee you can submit scores through the end of Aug (and Sept, but for even more $$). So, probably what I will do is do another dressage show at the end of Aug and do 3-3 and try 4-1!<br />
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<i>3) Compete in the Decatur WE show!</i><br />
Well we would have, and we were ready to go - but it was cancelled due to weather! Oh well. It was rescheduled for November so we'll just go then!<br />
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<i>1) Pony some babies - maybe! </i><br />
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<i>2) Frank especially - head out for more trails! If it's not too hot!</i><br />
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<i>1) Grooming/trimming every 2 weeks </i><br />
Success! But that's a pretty easy goal to meet!<br />
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<i>1) Go off property with Dylan for lessons</i><br />
He hasn't been yet, but only because I pulled the divider out of my trailer due to having to take O and Cregga back and forth to the vet so many times. Dylan has been riding in the trailer without the divider and does fine, but I can't really take anyone with him until I put it back in. I'll make Future Hubs help me with that since it's a heavy and super annoying task.<br />
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<i>2) Lunging with harness</i><br />
Success! Mostly he's been going with a surcingle, but it's fine, because he lunges fine with either.<br />
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<i>3) Wearing bridle</i><br />
Success! Everybody likes that little thin mullen mouth I have. He still needs to wear it more until he's *really* used to it but he's doing super well.<br />
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<i>4) Start back with long lining, small amounts, if lunging is going well</i><br />
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<i>1) Lunging - walk and trot</i><br />
Success! And we did a bit of free jumping with her and Zoodle too, sort of.<br />
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Success! She too likes the little mullen mouth more than anything else.<br />
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<i>1) Continue being a good momma horse!</i><br />
<i>2) Get back to work.... start riding again! And driving again? Depending on the tiny brat child and how unhelpful she is... I don't need the kid climbing into my carriage. </i><br />
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<i>1) Continue learning about leading, brushing, feet handling, bathing, and clipping!</i><br />
<i>2) Finalize registration papers - if the stuff ever gets here...</i><br />
<i>3) Learn a bit more about walking/trotting in hand and standing still, like she would need to do for a show</i><br />
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<i>1) Regular lessons and clinics! Both dressage and WE!</i></div>
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<i>3) Compete in the Haras summer show... as a prep for the actual Haras Cup!! </i><br />
<i>4) Ride in a clinic with Tiago Ernesto!</i><br />
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<i>1) Grooming/trimming every 2 weeks </i><br />
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<i>1) Go off property with Dylan for lessons</i><br />
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<b><i><u>Dylan 2017 Goals:</u></i></b><br />
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<b>1) Compete 3rd/4th level on Dylan (USDF)</b><br />
- So far - have competed at 3rd and have qualified for SW Championships and Regionals as well as secured Bronze scores at 3rd!<br />
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<b>2) Compete at Intermediate level in Working Equitation</b><br />
- Intermediate B to be more precise - and have been very successful so far!<br />
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<b>3) Compete at the Haras Cup</b><br />
- This is in October and we're planning to be there!<br />
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<b>4) MAYBE - IALHA Nationals</b><br />
- Probably not, since Regional are literally wrapping up the day before Nationals starts... but I MAY take Cregga to Nationals instead!<br />
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<b>5) MAYBE - Andalusian World Cup</b></div>
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- This one is going to be a definite no. With a brand new truck to pay for as well as alllll this other stuff going on.... too far and too expensive. Maybe next year! Or maybe in the future with Cregga.<br />
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<b>1) Compete 3rd/4th level (USDF)</b></div>
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<b>2) Compete at Intermediate B level in Working Equitation</b></div>
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<b>3) Compete at the Haras Cup</b><br />
<b>4) Attend Southwest Dressage Championships, and Region 9 Regionals</b><br />
<b>5) Compete in and complete 4 of the 5 Heart of Texas WE Series Shows</b><br />
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<b>1) Have a happy, healthy, bouncing baby!</b><br />
- A huge success! What a nice baby too.<br />
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<b>2) Consider whether or not we are breeding her back for a second time</b><br />
- Well, we tried but did not succeed.... but we will plan on breeding her back next year.<br />
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<b>1) Have a happy, healthy, bouncing baby!</b><br />
<b>2) Put her back to work! Under saddle and in harness</b><br />
<b>3) Maybe show in a Games Day show? Or play around with some WE?</b><br />
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<b><u><i>Pax 2017 Goals:</i></u></b><br />
<b>1) Continue baby school - wearing a bridle, being ponied on the trails, etc.</b><br />
- Pax is doing great, right where I want her to be for her age. She is ponying better than she ever has, which means come winter she'll be more than ready to go off property for ponies. She wears a bridle and has worn a saddle too.<br />
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<b>2) Show in the FEH at Meadowcreek (and maybe some other small in-hand shows for fun?)</b><br />
- Success! She also showed in the Texas Rose FEH and was 2nd (out of two... but whatever.) She was dead last at Meadowcreek but I knew she would be... she's not exactly Rolex quality. What was more important was getting her off property by herself and having to do something. It did really make a difference for her!<br />
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<b>3) Keep growing up and being a horse! </b><br />
- Success! And she'll keep on doing just that until next year.<br />
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<b>1) Continue baby school - wearing a bridle, being ponied on the trails, etc.</b><br />
<b>2) Show in the FEH at Meadowcreek (and maybe some other small in-hand shows for fun?)</b><br />
<b>3) Keep growing up and being a horse! </b><br />
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<b>1) Go on some trail rides! </b><br />
- She's been on two and that's the end of that. She's sort of dwindling towards the afterlife at the moment so I don't expect I'll be back on her ever again, save for maybe one more ride before she leaves the planet, whenever that is. She's not doing so great as we come to the midway point of the year... so we'll just see.<br />
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<b>2) Continue being the resident baby-dragger</b><br />
- Frank is the resident baby-dragger now!<br />
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<b>1) Hang in there until she's not ready to hang in there any more.</b><br />
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<b>1) Continue trying to make her a driving moole!</b><br />
- Even though I hitched Lendri a few times, I had that bad gut feeling that it was not a good idea and that I shouldn't do it any more. So... I stopped. And in March Lendri went to a client's house to keep her foundered horse company! It was a great thing - she and the horse love each other, and the people love her, and I get to see her every 3 weeks and keep an eye on her. It couldn't have been a better arrangement. They renamed her Clementina and they're in love with her.<br />
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<b>1) Continue to solidify lunging</b><br />
- Goal in progress. He continues to get better and better at this!<br />
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<b>2) Teach long lining and long line all over the place!</b><br />
- Haven't done this yet... but I need to!<br />
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<b>3) Take him off property for lots of exposure and despooking!</b><br />
- Still haven't done this yet... but again, I need to!<br />
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<b>4) Later in the year - learn about drag shafts and dragging small objects</b><br />
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<b>1) Continue to solidify lunging</b><br />
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<b>1) Continue regular handling as usual</b><br />
- Success - but she always needs more. The more time I put into her the better she is.<br />
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<b>2) Continue learning to lunge</b><br />
- Success! And she is still learning!<br />
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<b>3) Teach to long line</b><br />
- Not yet.., and I think she will be a little while before she ever does. Lunging to her sometimes still means "running away from the person in the middle, in a circle."<br />
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<b>4) Maybe later in the year - learn about drag shafts and dragging small objects</b><br />
- We will see how far we get with this one! She's a tough little booger and she lives up to her name for sure!<br />
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<b>1) Continue regular handling as usual</b><br />
<b>2) Continue learning to lunge</b><br />
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<b>1) Continue growing up and being a moole!</b><br />
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<b>2) Continue regular handling - and later in the year, start introducing simple concepts of lunging and wearing harness</b><br />
- Haven't done this yet but I think she will handle it pretty well! She does wear boots and that's just fine.<br />
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<b>1) Go on some trail rides!</b><br />
- Haven't trailered him anywhere but he's been ridden all over the neighborhood and is great! He doesn't love being ridden alone but he's happy to go with a baby in tow.<br />
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<b>2) Teach him to pony? </b><br />
- Now he ponies like a champ! He's great at it because he's so big he can just plod along and drag them as he needs to.<br />
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<b>1) Go on some off property trail rides! With babies in tow!</b><br />
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<i>"I think it's going to be a good one. My biggest focus this year is going to of course be Dylan, but I also want to prep and show Pax in the FEH (and maybe some schooling shows in hand?), and I want to make sure Zoodle gets the exposure he needs. I have a lot of hopes for show season, we're getting married this year (finally after being engaged for like four years), I hope to buy a new truck this year, and of course O's foal is coming. There are other things too which are just as exciting but less relevant to the blog. I'm not quite sure which direction our country is heading in at the moment, but I fully intend on making the best of it either way."</i><br />
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This has largely held up to all be true. Dylan has been and continues to be my main focus - the mules have gotten less work than I expected because I've been too busy focusing on Dylan, but that's all right. Pax has competed in two FEH classes and not killed anybody. Zoodle should be starting to travel off property within short order. The wedding planning is well underway but of course not anywhere near done!! I did buy a new truck and I love it, although the truck payment sucks and it did take a big dent out of my show fund. O's foal is of course here and every bit at awesome as I had hoped.<br />
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It seems so weird and exciting to say this, but I've been riding a LOT lately, and not just on Dylan. I have been riding him of course, obviously, but I also have been riding Frank,and the other day I had a wild hair and decided to saddle up O herself and see what happened. Yes, O!</div>
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I've been feeling really physically good lately, like my leg is mostly functional and mostly pain free. I know this sounds completely stupid, but I've been able to post lately... post! Posting is a big deal. I haven't been able to post at all in maybe 3 YEARS because it would leave me completely crippled. When you can post, you can deal with greener horses. I could get around it before with Dylan because I could warmup in walk and canter, and then move to sit the trot, but it's only because he's advanced enough for that. (Now that I can post though, our warmups are so much better because I can really get him stretching and loose.) But I've been sort of thinking about O and wanting to get her back into a bit of work without the risk of having a baby jumping into a carriage with us - and maybe wanting to try some WE with her too. I've thought about it in the past and she might not handle it well, but Intro level is pretty simple walk and trot stuff. Maybe we could give it a try!</div>
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O has not been ridden in nearly 3 years though, save for one or two hacks here and there. She was actively driving up until June last year, but hasn't been in work at all since then. Dylan and Cregga FREAKED when I pulled her out, and she did wiggle and scream for them some, but she also ate from her haybag and stood to be groomed and tacked. I picked the trusty ol' bloo bit for her, took her back out to the field, and hopped on. </div>
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And she was perfect. I feel like my defensive habit of getting stuck in chair seat with my lower leg pushed forward has been steadily evaporating, and she was happy to let me put my leg on her. She's so NARROW compared to Dylan... like riding a wobbly broomstick versus a thick sturdy sequoia. Riding him has made me so very aware of every little movement. </div>
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Despite what that last picture suggest, she was amazing. She was still very jiggy and hot and spooky the last time I took her out, but her two in hand shows really seem to have made an impression on her. She was completely cool and calm. And since she felt so collected and Frank felt so good, I think it's entirely possible that when the weather cooperates they'll be more than ready to go on off property trails together. </div>
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And last but certainly not least, Dylan has been going great under saddle. Here's a clip from our latest lesson with Louisa - the exercise we were doing was renvers to a 10m circle to shoulder in down the long side, then medium across the diagonal, to really activate the hind end. As you can see it pretty clearly worked!</div>
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He's going great. I'm feeling better and better, and starting to ride less like a weeble and more like a proper person again. It takes so much time and effort, but I am getting there. I am getting there!</div>
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I had two lessons this week or so - one with Louisa, one with Tarrin. I was also supposed to have a lesson two weekends ago with Tarrin but it got rained out, much to everyone's surprise. Rain in June? In Texas? What is happening? </div>
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Both of these instructors are complementary to each other in that they both have similar things to say about the horse, and the same ideas about how to get there, but with different (but complementary) ways of executing things. Louisa uses a lot of visual imagery, which is a learning style I process very well. Tarrin is excellent at pinpointing an issue and prompt to get you right to fixing it. Both of them are focused on me as a rider, because both know how much changing something in my body alters this horse. All of his issues are not really *his* issues, they are *my* issues. And when they fix me, it fixes him, automatically. This is why he is so completely priceless - he doesn't tolerate fools, and he doesn't give you any freebies whatever, but he's also completely safe. He makes you work for it, and makes you be correct, but the second you get it, he gives all of it to you. </div>
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In the lesson with Louisa, I started out with a really, really, really relaxed stretchy warmup. Up until a few months ago I was not able to post at all due to the pain in my leg, but during and after the last show at Tyler, I started giving it a try. Much to my delight I've been getting better and better at it, and with less and less pain. It sounds so stupid to be struggling with something so simple - I'm showing 3rd level and I can't freaking post? - but it truly was causing me pain beyond what I can even describe. Now though, with all my physical therapy, I'm posting mostly pain free and can now utilize that whenever I need to. </div>
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Where I've been using it is in my warmups. I've been making so much more use of stretchy work at the walk and trot instead of doing warmups at the walk and canter (because that's just how you have to do it when you can't post). As a result, I'm able to unlock his back that much faster, and relax him that much more. He really does like to stretch, but he's just as quick to get short and tense at the base of his withers, much like every other Spanish horse on planet Earth. But when I start my warmups with a long, loose, stretchy walk and trot, it loosens all of that up and it warms my muscles up too, so that I can find where I need to be better and faster.</div>
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I put him back in the snaffle for our lesson and have kept him back in the snaffle. The pelham is getting shelved for the time being, because Dylan is just *better* with it. As always, the more I just pretend like I don't have reins, the better he goes. When I get to micromanaging his face, everything goes down the toilet. We warmed up at the walk and posting trot, just doing some simple bending and stretching. Then we got to more of the meat - cantering squares with quarter pirouettes in each corner. It's exactly the same thing - just forget about your reins beyond simple positioning, and move him with your body. In pirouettes especially, which I am just learning about, my first instinct is to tilt which makes me lose my inside seatbone. The second that lifts off the saddle, he's quick to spin through his pirouettes almost like he wants to be a reiner, and he'll swap out behind. But if I really sit down and think about things in slow motion, he is a thousand times better. I just have to think my way through them. </div>
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There wasn't too much else that we were deeply focused on, aside from a few flying changes. He was a little slow to switch from right to left, but we edged around that by cantering down the long side in a bit of shoulder fore to the rail, and then executing the change on the far side of the ring. He's been so good with his changes that I honestly think he was more tired than he wanted to admit after doing the quarter pirouettes (or, maybe I was). When we got back home, Dylan also had a chiropractic appointment that showed he was much looser in his withers but had both hips out - so that also probably wasn't helping much!</div>
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Even though it wasn't too complicated of a lesson, the work was just so quality. It felt so good. It felt SO good. All of that stretching in the beginning meant all of the execution of things was just so fluid and so connected and just so <i>good</i>. If I can get that kind of connection everywhere.... that will be magical indeed.</div>
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Yesterday I rode with Tarrin again in preparation for the scheduled show today (stay tuned for an update on that at the end of the post). There are rules in the Confederation for WE that state that private instruction from a judge ahead of a show is not legal, but a clinic held by that judge right before a show is, which I think is really great. We rode at 8am, which I was very thankful for given the fact that it's about 113 degrees outside right now with high levels of humidity. Tarrin asked me first thing what I was wanting to work on, and I talked to her more about the last show and what I think went wrong. She pointed out his one major flaw - he likes to lose his haunches out towards the right. He does this in both directions and it's something I don't always really realize is happening until it's too late. To combat this, she parked herself in the middle of the dressage course and held one end of the garrocha pole, while I held the other. I had to go around her in walk, trot, and canter while holding the pole in one hand in both directions. I was not supposed to move her, or move my hand - the pole was supposed to stay perfectly balanced in the same spot between us. Talk about HARD - it completely relies on use of your body while trying to keep the horse on a perfect 10m circle, including through transitions.<br />
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I was awakened at about 1am by a house shaking roar of thunder. Not surprisingly, after wave after wave of deluge, the show was cancelled this morning and rescheduled to November. So that's the second time in a month that Tarrin drove up here to Decatur and then got rained out. Damnit all!<br />
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Out of two planned clinics and a show this month, I only got to ride in the one clinic. Boooo. Next month I also have a clinic (with Tiago) and a B-Rated show at Haras. Both of those places have indoors so they shouldn't be cancelled unless there is something dire happening! I need to go back over my show schedule beyond that and confirm what I really want to be shooting for in the fall too.<br />
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Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15902291220984883182noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4728532494108633757.post-50505568450992951962017-06-18T12:15:00.001-07:002017-06-18T12:16:48.428-07:00Another Photo Dump<div style="text-align: center;">
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As usual I have all sorts of good photos to share from this past month.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Zu will be 3 in July! Wearing a bridle and surcingle and lunging so much better </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ehhh.... right. They obviously can't actually breed since he's gelded and they're sterile anyway but they like to... posture. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Uma!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Never. Ending. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">FRANK</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Frank has been shedding for 5 months now. Next year I'm just going to clip him and be done with it</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pmare looking sort of eh going into summer. She is 21 now</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mules... so sassy. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pax has started cycling regularly and Frank is the recipient of all her affections. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Zoodle lunging like a champ</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Did I mention I broke my big toe and dislocated my thumb recently...</td></tr>
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Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15902291220984883182noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4728532494108633757.post-45359934209243834662017-06-17T20:21:00.000-07:002017-06-17T20:21:20.621-07:00Cregga, 4 Months Old<div style="text-align: center;">
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Cregga will be FOUR months old in three days! I sticked her about a week ago and she is THIRTEEN HANDS. THIRTEEN. </div>
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She is almost completely shed out of her babymange stage. She is now a very pretty steel color, sort of bay-ish still but with lots of white hairs. I am not sure what color she wants to be and she's not either, so we're just going with whatever it is. The steel has changed to sort of more brown with the exposure to our hot Texas sun. I imagine she won't stay dark for very long.</div>
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From bay with some shedding....</div>
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To more shedding...</div>
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I took O out to give her a bath one day and Cregga was NOT having it. She took the opportunity to try out for the Spanish Riding School. </div>
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We trailered O and Cregga out for baby's first ever trip to the vet, and first ever trailer ride. It took a minute for her to get on the trailer, and she insisted on jumping in instead of putting her feet on the ramp, but she did trailer well and loaded back in just fine. </div>
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Unfortunately the reason for the vet visit was to check and see if O was pregnant, and she was not. We bred back again this month and we find out on Monday if she is pregnant, but I'm pretty sure she isn't. We've had all sort of breeding trouble this year and I'm pretty sure we're not getting anything out of it. But, we will try again next year. </div>
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She has gotten better about all of the things she wasn't too sure about. At 4 months old she clips, leads, ties, bathes, trailers, stands to be trimmed (within wiggly baby reason), and wears a flymask and flyspray. Although like dad, she doesn't love wet things on her. </div>
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We will find out if she has a sibling for next year on Monday, although I'm pretty sure she does not. Disappointed there.... I really like this cross. </div>
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The pictures are in!! Now I can tell the story of the show!!</div>
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The third 2017 Heart of Texas series show is in the books. There are five of them; you have to complete three in order to be eligible for end of year series awards. I have completed two, since the first one was the one I had to scratch from because O decided to inconveniently drop a baby that weekend!<br />
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On Friday the 19th, I loaded up Dylan and headed for Navasota TX. The showgrounds was in a nearby town, but it was close to Brenham, which is near where Pine Hill is (Bellville). We made good time, <a href="http://uncatchablenumber257.blogspot.com/2016/05/pine-hill-hdt-528-5292016-part-i.html">unlike the last time we went down to that area!</a> When we arrived we were one of the first to get there, even though we made it late in the afternoon. There were a few people in from Oklahoma, me from DFW, and most of the rest of the people were coming in from Waco or the Houston area. The Watts Way facility is owned privately, and just opened up for these shows and some clinics a couple of times a year. </div>
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We arrived safely, and were warmly welcomed by the owner of the facility and her daughter. They showed me to my stall, and I settled Dylan in before I went to the office to check in. The daughter, J, told me I might want to go school the outdoor bank, as they had planned to use it in the EOH and speed courses. There are so few facilities around that have a bank, so it almost never gets included in courses. We schooled it in hand, with his wraps still on - I figured he woudn't have a problem so I wasn't worried about it.<br />
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After I put him away, J, A and her husband A (yes, lots of As around here) all invited me to come join them in Brenham for dinner. These guys don't really know me but they went out of their way to include me and invite me along to dinner. T, the owner of the facility, also offered me a room in their guest house - I was planning on staying in a local hotel, but this was much more convenient and cheaper to boot. We drank, feasted, and had excellent conversation all evening, and I stumbled around the barn doing night check a little more intoxicated than I had expected. Thankfully, I didn't ride until almost 4 the following afternoon, so it didn't matter much how late I got up in the morning!<br />
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Saturday dawned, and I was up early polishing boots, cleaning tack, and handwalking and bathing Dylan. I watched some of the lower levels going, then had the awesome luxury of going back to the guest house and taking an actual nap for an hour. That's unheard of! A lot of these WE shows are now being held over two days, but there just isn't quite enough to do for a full two day show. But, one day shows are crammed... so you either get to spend a large amount of time loafing around, or a short amount of time frantically running. Not sure which format I prefer more!<br />
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Finally my time to finish braiding and dressing came. Coats were waived, and I almost never go without my coat, but it was so horribly hot and humid that I decided it would be best not to die. Dylan's warmup was surprisingly poor - he bounced around in his back end through his changes, and missed several of them. We were warming up outside in a big hilly field, and the ground was rock hard. Once in the arena, I had my regular old horse back - apparently he just hated the footing outside. We had a solid dressage test - about the same as the last show. He got all his changes clean, did his lateral work well, did clean pirouettes, immobile and square halts. He has one nanosecond where he almost hopped into a canter from the walk when I was just asking him to trot, but he self corrected before he even took half a stride and trotted off. I doubted if the judge would even notice it.<br />
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Back at the washstall, one of the judges I showed under last year talked to me about how far Dylan has come - how much looser and freer she thought he was. She said he looked even better than he did at the Taylor show, which pleased me. I was expected a high dressage score and was excited about it.<br />
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The scores came out..... and I got a 59%. I actually stopped and blinked for a few seconds. Did we really suck that bad? Even with a test that was comparable if not better than the Taylor show where we scored almost a 67%?<br />
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I looked up and down the rest of the scores and was completely surprised to find that my abysmal 59% was one of the highest scores of the day. There were a couple of 61%, mostly at the Introductory level. Everyone else scored even worse than I did. Apparently, the judge was a harsh one. That momentary hesitation bobble that I thought the judge wouldn't even notice got me a 4.5. Mostly the rest of the test was 5s and 6s. I was really surprised and slightly annoyed because it meant it wouldn't count for a medal score. Nobody's would count for a medal score.<br />
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That night, a whole group of about 20 of us went back out to the same restaurant in Brenham for dinner. There was more feasting, more laughing, more jokes and more storytelling. I felt slightly less in my element than I do in smaller and more intimate settings - I am a notorious introvert who relishes her nights alone at horseshows. But it was a ton of fun and as before, these total strangers welcomed me into their lives and never once made me feel like I wasn't a part of their group. That was truly special to me as it is hard to find your place in a new group.<br />
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The next morning dawned cloudy and questionable. The EOH course was supposed to be set outside in the enormous and awesome field behind the indoor, but the weather made it too big of a question - so no bank for us. We did, however, use the roundpen at the end of the arena - you walked out of the end gate, went through the livestock pen inside of the roundpen, and then came back into the arena.<br />
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Livestock pen<br />
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It was blazing hot with outrageous humidity by the time I was tacking up. I had this convoluted idea in my head that I wouldn't need to warm Dylan up very much, as I didn't want to roast him alive. This was a huge mistake and I should have know that I did not have him ready when I couldn't get him to hold still while we were standing around waiting out turn. If you can't stand still before you enter the arena, you're not going to stand still when you get in there. I should have known better.<br />
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As a result, I had way more horse than I needed, and one that was heavy on the forehand and rushing to boot. Had I done a better warmup, this would not have been a problem. My EOH score was abysmal - a 50% - one of the lowest score of the entire day, and decidedly the worst score of anything I've EVER done in my life. One of the highest dressage scores, one of the lowest EOH scores. EOH has solidly now become a 'thing' for me, a problem in my head. I seem to have trouble with it every single time. Every! Time!<br />
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Watch the video though and see what you think. There were clearly some things I deserved a low score on. The single slalom right off the bat I botched the first change on, and never quite recovered - got a 4, deserved it. The bridge he jigged over, so it also deserved a 4. So did the gate, which he knocked into, and so did the jug, where he just sort of did half steps through the whole thing (actual scribe comment was "half steps not required.") But I thought other things did not deserve such low scores. He patted the ground a little close in his changes in the cloverleaf barrels and that scored me a 4 - I did not expect that. He also halted but moved so briefly in the bell corridor - it also scored a 4. The garrocha pole I thought was smooth and easy - it only got a 5. The only thing that scored a 6 at all was the livestock pen.<br />
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I actually went out after that and galloped his butt for a few minutes, adding in some stern halts and insistence for immobility. We have worked VERY hard on the immobility issue and it was irritating to return to it, after I had thought it was solidly beaten.<br />
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After a break, it was time for speed. I did finally have a horse who was listening to me and was slightly *slightly* tired, only now I needed the run in him. I'm going to ask Tarrin what she thinks, but after this show I may just try to do my speed courses like I would my EOH courses - quietly and rhythmically. I am not sure he's quite able to differentiate "we do this quietly sometimes, and super fast sometimes." I don't think that helps his hotness at all. And he is HOT.<br />
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At Intermediate B, we scored better in dressage than the two other professionals, both judges I have shown under - which was awesome. We of course scored worse in the EOH but what can you really do about that except to try harder next time?<br />
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The next show is at the end of June, another B-rated WE show here in Decatur. There is a B-rated show at Haras in July - which is going to be hot as hell - and we were also asked to come to an invitation only Tiago Ernesto clinic in July, which is going to be awesome. We have a lesson with Tarrin tomorrow, and a lesson next week with Louisa where we start to consider what we need to move to 4th level. So much going on!!!!<br />
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I'm still waiting for the pictures from the last working equitation show to post, so I'll keep holding off on that post until I get them. In the meantime, I wanted to go over my May and June goals! I blogged very little in May, but I think that's just how it's going to be for awhile. I just don't have much time these days!</div>
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<i><b><u>O-Ren May:</u></b></i></div>
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<i>1) Continue being a good momma horse!</i><br />
Success! We are trying to get her bred back for another one next year but so far have been completely unsuccessful.<br />
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<i><b><u>Cregga May:</u></b></i><br />
<i>1) Continue learning about leading, brushing, feet handling, bathing, and clipping</i><br />
<i>Success! So far she is good about everything except water, which she hates. She has been bathed but </i>she thinks it's terrible, and she's not very fond of spray or flymasks either. Just like her father! She went with her mother to the vet the other day and stood quietly, loaded on the trailer with only minimal fuss, led like a perfectly quiet little adult lady, and charmed everyone.<br />
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<i><b><u>Dylan May:</u></b></i></div>
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<i>1) More lessons! As usual!</i><br />
Sort of success - I have been so busy and it's been such chaos that I've only had time for one lesson. One lesson is still more than 0 though. This coming month I will have lessons with both Tarrin and Louisa, which will be great.<br />
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<i>2) </i><i>Start putting together 4th level tests - decide in snaffle or in double?</i><br />
I'm still back and forth about which bridle to go in. I put him in a pehlam for WE, and am still not sure if I like it or not. I do really like how he goes in his snaffle, and I'm still learning the finer points of the double. So I need practice in the double, but I also need to be mindful of what I am doing for WE.<br />
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<i>3) Show in and complete the 3rd Heart of Texas series show</i><br />
Success! And I'll write about that as soon as I have the pics!<br />
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<i>4) Take a look at the show calendar and decide the plan for the summer/fall</i><br />
Started to do this but didn't finish. In June I have two lessons/clinics with Tarrin and a WE show here in Decatur. In July, there is a WE show at Haras which I have been wanting to go to, but other than that July is awfully hot and it'll be boiling down there in Magnolia. It will be worth it though to go check out the Haras facility, as I hear that the Haras Cup is completely bonkers and chaotic to a level almost unheard of around here. Apparently it's one nonstop raging party and there's a horseshow inconveniently in the way. Dylan doesn't care about any of that, but it could still be a bit hair raising.<br />
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<i><b><u>Pangea/Frank May:</u></b></i></div>
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<i>1) Pony some babies - maybe! </i><br />
Didn't do this.... didn't have time!<br />
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<i>2) Frank especially - head out for more trails! Ride 1x a week locally for short trail rides</i><br />
Also didn't do this... I had been riding him a lot through April but not much in May. I've just been too busy and it's HOT now!</div>
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<i><b><u>Pax/Uma May:</u></b></i></div>
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<i>1) Off duty for the rest of the year! Show season is over so just getting pulled out and groomed/trimmed every 2 weeks </i><br />
Success! That I did do. They're enjoying just being babies and growing up!<br />
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<i><b><u>Zu May:</u></b></i></div>
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<i>1) Go off property with Dylan for lessons</i><br />
Haven't done this, but I will this month I hope!<br />
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<i>2) Lunging with harness</i><br />
Success! A bit, anyway. There is more to be done but he is coming along well in his lunging. He is a tough little cookie and can be very argumentative.<i> </i><br />
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<i>3) Wearing bridle</i><br />
Success! He likes the little mullen mouth half cheek and will be wearing it more.<br />
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<i>4) Start back with long lining, small amounts, if lunging is going well</i><br />
Not yet... not yet. But it will come. I will need Future Hubs' help with getting him to connect the dots - he will need to lead him. </div>
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<i><b><u>Sriracha May:</u></b></i></div>
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<i>1) Lunging - walk and trot</i><br />
Success! She's done very well so far.<br />
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<i>2) Wearing bridle</i><br />
She has not worn her bridle this month, but I expect to this month, now that I have more time.<br />
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<i>3) Wearing harness</i><br />
She has not worn her harness this month - but again, this month I intend to do that. </div>
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<i><b><u>O-Ren June:</u></b></i></div>
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<i>1) Continue being a good momma horse!</i><br />
<i>2) Try and successfully get bred, finally... we are almost out of time for this year. </i><br />
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<i><b><u>Cregga June:</u></b></i><br />
<i>1) Continue learning about leading, brushing, feet handling, bathing, and clipping!</i><br />
<i>2) Send in registration papers</i><br />
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<i>1) More lessons! Both dressage and WE!</i></div>
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<i>2) </i><i>Continue working on pirouettes and 4-tempis - working towards 4th level!</i></div>
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<i>3) Compete in the Decatur WE show!</i><br />
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<i><b><u>Pangea/Frank June:</u></b></i></div>
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<i>1) Pony some babies - maybe! </i><br />
<i>2) Frank especially - head out for more trails! If it's not too hot!</i></div>
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<i><b><u>Pax/Uma June:</u></b></i></div>
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<i>1) Grooming/trimming every 2 weeks </i><br />
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<i><b><u>Zu June:</u></b></i></div>
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<i>1) Go off property with Dylan for lessons</i><br />
<i>2) Lunging with harness</i><br />
<i>3) Wearing bridle</i><br />
<i>4) Start back with long lining, small amounts, if lunging is going well</i></div>
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<i><b><u>Sriracha June:</u></b></i></div>
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<i>1) Lunging - walk and trot</i><br />
<i>2) Wearing bridle</i><br />
<i>3) Wearing harness</i></div>
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<br /><br /><br />Soon I'll have the pictures in and can write about the last show. I also have some photo dumps and of course more CREGGA! Here's Frank and his giant head and leaky old eye, getting an ear scratching.<br />
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Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15902291220984883182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4728532494108633757.post-63408036658335259132017-05-27T21:18:00.001-07:002017-05-27T21:18:19.809-07:00Lesson 5/18<div style="text-align: center;">
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As usual I have a little bit of catching up to do! It seems to be my norm these days... oh well. I do what I can with what time I have.<br />
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We have been to the third Heart of Texas series show, but before I write aboiut that I want to put up a quick blip about the lesson before the show, as it explains some of the tack changes I've done in the last few weeks.<br />
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It's been kind of bonkers around here as usual. While we haven't had the tornados and hail that others have, we've had two really bad wind storms here, one of which took out a large branch in the pasture. The other blew our roof to smithereens, and it was so bad that the insurance company actually totalled it. But, we have a nice new roof now, so... win win?<br />
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Aside from all that, things are going well. After the last show, I started thinking about bits and the number of pelhams I have been seeing in competition. The old rule on dress code was that you had to pick a discipline as your chosen attire and then stick with it, tack and all. With dressage, that obviously meant dressage tack and dress, and a dressage legal bit.<br />
This year they changed that. You can now use whatever bit you need, barring of course a number of twisted wires, gags, and the like. But there is no longer any reason you can't show in a pelham if you're riding dressage.<br />
Before, I would have only been able to choose between a simple snaffle and a double bridle. Dylan goes well in a snaffle, but for speed it gets kind of complicated as he turned into a firebreather. A double bridle isn't a convenient option - it's hard enough to do things like picking up a pole and a jug and opening a gate when you only have one set of reins. When you have to hold four reins in one hand at the same time.... it's too hard for me to do at my current skill level.<br />
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So, I decided to try the pelham too. With converters.<br />
My childhood trainers would have beaten me with a second set of reins if they ever saw me doing that.<br />
But... it's a different sport. It's worth a try.<br />
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The jury is still out on whether or not I actually like it. I may go back to the snaffle.<br />
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I rode him twice on my own with this pelham, and then took him to a lesson on the Thursday before my show. Whether or not the pelham had anything to do with it or not, we just didn't have that great of a lesson overall. The greatest thing about riding with Louisa for me is the way she has with words. She always has some fantastic analogy to help me visualize what she means, and once I can get it in my head, I just GET it.<br />
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But for some reason that day, I just could NOT get it. We were trying to do suppling and lateral work, and she was trying to explain to me how to move my inside rein in order to let go of it. For whatever reason it backfired in my head, and I ended up using the rein in excess instead of being able to let it go. When you pull on Dylan, he spirals his opposing hind leg outward, and you completely disengage him. We just could. Not. Get it together.<br />
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Finally she stopped me, and thought for a minute. She then explained to me the analogy of driving a pair of horses. Think about the inside horse, she said, and then imagine the outside horse helping to push the inside horse over instead of pulling the inside horse around. That clicked in my head and made sense, and then suddenly we were able to get it. We were even able to practice some quarter pirouettes at the end of things.<br />
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But what would an only so-so lesson mean for our show that weekend? Well you'll just have to wait and find out...<br />
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The second part of this is that I also have a few other pictures from the last WE show to share! These extra ones got posted after the fact and they're just as awesome as the other ones. They can hold you off until the next group of pictures from the most recent show can be posted.</div>
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Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15902291220984883182noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4728532494108633757.post-9093228833990697522017-05-17T15:33:00.002-07:002017-05-17T15:33:16.012-07:00Cregga, 3 Months Old<div style="text-align: center;">
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Cregga is now THREE months old! (Or well, technically it's in 3 days, but Monday was the 12 week mark, so I officially consider it about the same. After this, I start counting month age instead of week age so we go back to using the 20th.) </div>
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She's still enormous but she thank god seems to temporarily be putting that into bulk instead of height. She got freakishly tall freakishly fast, but then slowed way down and went outward. She was 12.1 at 9 weeks old, and is still 12.1 at 12 weeks old. But I string tested her a few weeks ago and she was solidly showing 17 hands O.O I can only hope I mis-measured, even though I also measured everyone else! (Pax is showing she is probably going to top out at maybe 15.3, if I'm lucky. I can only assume it's P that throws small size - her first foal as a 3 year old was maybe 14.2!)<br />
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Cregga at 3 months, Pax at 3 months. I think Pax was slightly older in that shot than Cregga is now. Pax was an enormous baby though.<br />
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In terms of milestones, there are some things Pax did better at this age than Cregga does, and vice versa. Cregga has always been much sweeter and way less feisty, and has never tried to rear up on or kick at a person (yet). Pax was a horrible little monster and got knocked off her feet about once a day for the first couple of months of her life. Still, Pax took to general things like bathing, hoof handling, and flymaks wearing a lot quicker than Cregga - Cregga still likes to hippity hop when you pick her feet up, if you hold them for longer than she thinks is necessary. She also hates her flymask (like dad) and I usually have to put it on while she's laying down, or haltered at least. Pax I could walk right up and do it no problem. Pax also has taken to water a bit better than Cregga, but Cregga has taken better to the clippers.<br />
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Since I missed out on so much blogging, I haven't had any goals up for a bit. Here are our May goals! </div>
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<i><b><u>O-Ren May:</u></b></i></div>
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<i>1) Continue being a good momma horse!</i><br />
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<i><b><u>Cregga May:</u></b></i><br />
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<i>1) More lessons! As usual!</i></div>
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<i>3) Show in and complete the 3rd Heart of Texas series show</i><br />
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<i><b><u>Pangea/Frank May:</u></b></i></div>
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<i>1) Pony some babies - maybe! </i><br />
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<i><b><u>Zu May:</u></b></i></div>
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<i>1) Go off property with Dylan for lessons</i><br />
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<i><b><u>Sriracha May:</u></b></i></div>
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You may have noticed Lendri is not on the list. Last month, she went on trial to a new home - she is currently with one of my clients, as a companion for her chronic founder. She was not going to make it as a driving mule, it was becoming increasingly obvious to me. My client had repeatedly said that she wanted a moole just like mine, and a spotted one just like mine to boot. One day I went.... why not her? She is currently at their place living with the foundered horse and they love each other. It is giving the foundered horse companionship, and is good for Lendri too because her diet is controlled (she's plenty fat!) and she also keeps the foundered horse gently on the move, which he needs. I get to see her every 3 weeks on the dot, and if it ever doesn't work out, she comes home to me. It really is a win win situation. I could not have found a better home for her - and would not have let her to go any other.<br />
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Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15902291220984883182noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4728532494108633757.post-26580177637237975272017-05-04T20:46:00.001-07:002017-05-04T20:46:30.272-07:00Catch-Up Post IV: Heart of Texas WE Series Show #2<div style="text-align: center;">
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I'm pretty certain that most of the blogs I follow are all writing about their epic Rolex adventure with one another. And you all SUCK. I wanted to be there too. Maybe next year.... which is what I have been saying since 2009, which is the last time I went, but I digress.<br />
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The second show in our five show Heart of Texas Working Equitation series was held on the weekend of the 22nd-23rd, outside of Austin. Since I had to scratch halfway through the first one, and you need to complete three of the five in order to be eligible for end of year awards, I was determined to make sure this one counted for something. I spent the week gettings things ready a little at a time every day, and by Friday we were ready to go. We pulled in to the show grounds at a reasonable time, I settled Dylan into his stall, and then bathed and readied him for the following morning. There was a minor snafu in the office - they had accidentally put us in the Intro division, when we were actually supposed to be in Intermediate B... only separated by 5 divisions, no biggie!! - but they got it sorted out and had us in the right place in no time.<br />
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It had been almost 90 and humid the day before. with severe storms to the north of us. I'm glad I bathed Dylan the night before, because by the morning, a cold front had rolled in and dropped the temperature into the 40's. There was a free clinic being held by the judge before the show started, and I tossed some clothes on Dylan before bundling up in all the sweaters I had brought. The conference room was freezing, but the talk was very interesting. It was basic, but covered many points that newer competitiors might not know about. Not that I'm any kind of experienced competitors, but I have scoured the rules pretty thoroughly, so I had a good idea of what was going on. It was really great that the judge was there to educate us on his point of view, and help us see what he was looking for - and all for free!<br />
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Our dressage time was a little after 2pm. They were running about half an hour behind as we neared our ride time, so I hung around in the barn for awhile before getting on to warm up. It was still freezing and the wind was howling, so Dylan was a bit more amped up than I was hoping, but he managed to settle for the most part before our dressage. We had an especially good set of changes and canterwork, had good pirouettes, and held the walk work together for the most part, which wasn't easy given how windy and cold it was. We have been doing a lot of practicing with our halts and stand stills, which is surprisingly hard to do, but he has been nailing all his halts bang on. The only real stutter we had was during our first walk half pass, when I didn't quite trust him to let him really step over into it - I held him through it in order to keep him walking. All in all, we scored a 66.4%! That's pretty impressive. Considering the last several WE shows we have done have all scored a consistant 58% because of the crappy changes and poor pirouettes, this is a great improvement. Well done Dylan! And well done me for actually riding like I know how to sometimes. After that, I watched the Children's division do their Ease of Handling test following the dressage, then tucked Dylan in for the night. We were set to ride around noon on Sunday, with Ease of Handling first and then Speed following (they always run in that order).<br />
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On Sunday, it was still very cold in the morning. This made for some exciting rodeos in the warmup, and an even more exciting moment that happened in the morning as I was just driving in to feed Dylan. As I was coming up the (very long and sizeable) driveway, a palomino horse with an orange blanket walked across the road, wearing his halter and lead rope - no owner in sight. I slowed down, and the horse took off, zooming away across a corn field heading in the direction of a farmhouse. The showgrounds were conveniently situated in the middle of nowhere, but there were some main roads and a town nearby. I recoginized the horse as one that was stabled in the aisle across from us, and I was the only one out there who had seen the direction he happened to take, so I turned my truck around and followed him as best I could. I made it over to the farmhouse via a backroad, and the horse was nowhere in sight. I started up the next main road, straining my eyes to see if I could catch a spot of orange blanket moving. There! He was way down the road, with a pickup truck following him. He happened to stop and slow down to investigate the pickup, but just as the people were getting out, he took off again. Now several miles away from the showgrounds, and heading towards the main road, I went "oh crap!!" and sped off down the road to try and cut him off before he made it out there. Luckily, I spotted a fence between him and the road, so I turned around once again and found a place to park so that I could try and catch him. His mother spotted my truck as I was stopping and putting my hazards on, and together we went and managed to corner him. As she was leading him back towards me, she started telling me that he just waits until she's not paying attention and then just gallops off - and as she was saying it, he did just that, turning and just bolting off. She just let go, and I don't blame her - she had one of those Parelli sadist lead ropes, the poly ones that burn your skin right off if you try and hold a bolting horse. He was caught a second time, and I held one side of his halter while she held the other and the lead rope. We walked him back to her truck, and she put a chain on him (thankfully). We then began the slow process of ponying him in convoy back to the arena, several miles away.<br />
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With that all over, I fed Dylan and ran back to the arena just in time to catch the coursewalk for Ease of Handling. Thankfully I made it!! Like with jumper courses, you want to walk your lines to see what your best routes are (and there can be several, which you can use to your advantage to play to your horse's strengths). Intermediate B, also known as Level 5, is the level at which flying changes become compulsory. All of the work in EOH is done at the canter and the walk, with flying changes - no trotting or simple changes allowed. Believe me, it's even harder than it sounds, especially if you're on one that doesn't have easy changes.<br />
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Ease of Handling has been kind of a bugaboo for us. Up until this point, I've never completed an EOH course - eliminations, course errors, and a mare foaling inconveniently. As such I think this course gave me more anxiety than I really realized, and when I get anxious I slip back into all my defensive bad habits, none of which Dylan will tolerate. I could not get him to settle in the warm-up which should have been my first clue. As such I had a super hot and not particularly rideable horse -- BUT we did complete the course! Not only did we complete, but we scored a 64.5%, which is not too bad. EOH seems to score a lot higher than the dressage does, with people regularly getting scores in the 70s, but I'm not sure why that is. I will take my 64.5% and be very happy with it!<br />
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On course in order (which you will see on the video, so you can reference back to this list if you have questions about what we are doing in the video):<br />
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1) Double barrels, which were plants this time - did a simple change instead of a flying<br />
2) Double slalom - hit most of the changes cleanly but had two where he swapped out behind briefly<br />
Jump - launched but that's Dylan! <br />
3) Sidepass poles - had never done them before in an L configuration. Considering this is the first time and considering sidepass poles used to blow his mind I think that went really well!<br />
4) Cloverleaf barrels - considering we *just* started schooling them with changes like a month ago, they went well<br />
5) Gate - Dylan got eliminated at a metal gate over the winter because he could NOT figure it out. This time I let go of the gate so he could see to go through the space, and while that dinged our score we did make it through!<br />
6) Bell corridor - apparently his bonnet was irritating him because he had one ear flat on his head and shook it as we exited.<br />
7) Cup corridor - you have to pick up a cup and then weave backwards in a slalom to exit the corridor. We have practiced this going to the left, but not the right. Imagine my horror when I saw there was only one cup - usually there are two and you can pick. It wasn't pretty but we made it happen!<br />
8-9) Garrocha and spearing a ring - did great, speared the ring but of course the video went blurry at that moment<br />
10) Bridge - hot and jiggy but did it fine<br />
11) Livestock pen - not sure what happened here but I think I had my left rein tighter than my right, I don't ride with one hand often enough and I can't say he steers with one hand at all! Was not great but we got out of there in one piece<br />
12) Replace pole - great<br />
12) Switch cups - I think I was relieved at nearing the end and he of course broke and trotted, which is a strict no-no that severely dinged our collective marks.</div>
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Apologies for the upright video. One of the ladies who was stabled across from me videoed for me, since I videoed for her in the morning! </div>
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I thought it felt horrible, but it looks a lot better on video than it felt. But again, I completed the course, for the first time ever, and didn't get too terrible of a score even with our mistakes. </div>
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The last thing of the day was, of course, Speed. I warmed Dylan up briefly, mostly walking with some stretchy canter, and then we were ready. Speed is exactly what it sounds like - just go fast, and get timed - so you don't have to worry about leads or gaits or looking pretty. You just have to not knock anything over, or hit anything. If you do, you get points added to your time. If your spear the ring, you get ten seconds off your final time, so if you can do you want to get that! </div>
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Dylan of course flew through the course. We even cantered the bridge, and speared the ring to boot. He did great! It went a lot smoother than EOH, and of course was buckets of fun. And we got some great pictures from Speed too:</div>
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One of the cool things about WE United and the new Confederation for Working Equitation is the fact that they are in no way stingy with their prizes. There are ALL sorts of things you can win at the end of the year. Both programs maintain a leaderboard, which I love, and both programs also have a medal program similar to the one that runs through USDF. It's still hard to keep track of which is which, and what goes where, but I have an idea of what I need in order to get some medals and prizes. </div>
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The Heart of Texas series of course is it's own entity, and as a series there are year end prizes for each division.</div>
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The Confederation for WE (which I think is just WEIAUSA and USAWEA combined into one thing... yes it really is that confusing) has a leaderboard and a medal program. At Intermediate Level, you can earn a Silver medal:<br />
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Silver Medal Rider Award – Intermediate (L4 & L5)<br />
3 Scores of 60% or higher<br />
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Three (3) scores must be earned in L5 (Intermediate B)</div>
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WE United also has a leaderboard and a medal program. At Intermediate Level, it's also a Silver medal:<br />
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Silver Medalist Riders – Intermediate Level<br />
Must have three (3) Dressage scores at the Intermediate level of 62% or higher from at least (3) three different rides and two (2) different WE United “r,” “R,” or “S” judges.<br />
Must have three (3) Ease of Handling scores at the Intermediate level of 62% or higher from at least two (2) different WE United “r,” “R,” or “S” judges.<br />
In addition to the above six scores, must have one (1) Dressage score and one (1) Ease of Handling score at the Intermediate level of 65% or higher for a total of eight eligible scores.<br />
Scores for all of the above are only eligible if the rider successfully completed all trials in the competition in which the score was earned.</div>
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The Confederation separates each level out (like Intermediate A and Intermediate B) while WE United has both levels scored together on the leaderboard. There are hardly ever people that compete against us - they're all in Intermediate A here - so the Intermediate A people automatically get more points, due to the number of people in their division. They'll always accumulate more points than I will, so I have no hope of ending up on the Leaderboard for WE United. I DO have hope - and am on - the Leaderboard for the Confederation though!<br />
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We have the next series show mid-May.... man that's coming up fast!!!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oh yeah.... forgot how much FUN it is to hack a hormonal stallion in the springtime!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Been riding Big Frank a lot lately! He's not very sound on hills because of some arthritis in his knees, but a joint supplement and the occasional gram of bute keep him a happy guy</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pax is getting big! I mean, not BIG as in horse size big, but just growing up in general big</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dylan's display of fame.... we always decorate this area for holidays. Show season is a holiday!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lariat halter! Helps with pulling - a LOT!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Giant itchy baby. GIANT</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">He comes by the nickname Dilly Dirtball honestly</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The butt patch is because I was clipping O, and decided hey! this is a great time to learn about clippers</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Baby's first bathtime. They always act like you are spraying them with acid at first, then they get really into it</td></tr>
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