I Finally Get To Ride!

Today was JGE (Junior Grand Entry) Tryouts were cancelled due to the extremely high winds. For Junior 1 I got Blue #110. That horse is loco enough as it is now add extreme winds to that. It as not a good mix. We played some games. We worked on Teardrops and Rollbacks! It would have been great if there was no wind. It was brutal. Blue did good on the teardrops. We trotted down the rail did I tight tiny circle and kicked him back to the lope on the rail. It was pretty fun except Blue kept taking off. Then was rollbacks. It is supposed to be done at a lope but we did it at a trot. You go down the rail pull back to put the weight in their haunches, turn and lope back. It was really cool but Blue went all over the map. I looked like a 1st year ahhh! It was still riding though. Then was White Star. I got Sonny # 38.  My instructor Aline calls him bug face. He does have a really weird shaped face. Also extremely stubborn! Good thing I have spurs but it only gets him to trot. His slow trot is really nice. We rode our drill!! First time I rode 3 - 4. One of my friends got to call. She did so good for her first try :) We trotted almost our whole drill. It was probably one of our best drills yet. We still struggle moving into the star. We loped our propeller too. Then we lined up to run it again and I was 4 - 3. Then Aline turned to me and asked me to ride 1 - 1! So I got to call while riding for the first time!!!! It was amazing! We also pulled off a really good drill but we got so mixed up that as 1 - 1 I ended up on the outside of the propeller!!! It was weird. I kicked Sonny to try and get him to lope but all it resulted in was a big ole' buck that nearly threw me off. There is a picture below. I was like OK we are settling for a fast trot. It was sooooo much fun getting to ride and call! I LOVE IT! My friends and I studied in the fort after our ride and watched the Gauchos do their walk throughs. Then was diagramming. I finally got 35/35 on my quiz!!! Yay! Quiz #7 was 2 pages! I will be interested to see how I did on that. We also got our study guide to fill out to get back half of the points we missed on our quizzes. Pretty good deal and we have a whole month to do it. Then I went to the auditorium and completed my 2 corrections then I sat outside and watched teams do walk throughs while filling out my study guide. Overall it was an amazing cold windy fantastic day :)

Blue

Sonny

Propeller

Star

Sonny and I

Sonny About to Buck

Circle