White Star Summer Ride 7/15

Well tonight rocked and sucked at the same time... So when we get our horses we get one shot to pick our horse and then they give us one. I wanted to keep my White Horse streak going but I really wanted Cedar and Utah was in sick bay for weight. Nope Cedar was riding in Crimson. So guess who I got stuck with. Chico #63. Great! I was thinking in my head please don't do flags!!!! We didn't so yay!!! So he was fine for grooming. A little head shy for the bridle but I worked out a technique for him. So we mounted up. I had the stirrups all the way up but they were just a tad long. No way was I using shorties so I just went with it. I basically went the whole ride no stirrups. Chico freaked at this one corner because there were people weeding. His slow trot is great but not so much his fast one, especially with long stirrups. They weren't too bad but just enough that it was annoying. We warmed up with some work in 4's. I had the worst 4 in the world. Our inside horse would not pivot and we literally had to shove her around with our horses. Nearly impossible when we picked it up to a lope. It wasn't a good start to the ride. So then we rode Standard drill. I was in the 3rd four. It went OK. Definitely getting smoother. Then we lined up for our drill. I got to be 1-1. I like being Captain :) I get to call all the time. It went pretty smooth. We kept it at a trot. Our 4's got a little scrambled though. Otherwise a good drill. Then for drill 2 I was 4-1. Outside of propeller. Westernaire Lover got to call again :) She was so quiet I couldn't hear her at all but she got louder as the drill went on. We got to pick it up to a lope at star but it didn't go so well. Then we got to lope the rest of the drill after circle too. Our propeller had issues though cause our inside wasn't guiding. So we had to take it around a few times to get it straight. Chico doesn't like staying out but I worked with him. I had to use two reins though. He was being such a butt tonight. We got to lope the rest of the drill. It was pretty fun!!!! I can't wait until we can do the whole thing. So even though it was a rough start and I couldn't keep my seat very well it was still an OK ride. Can't wait for Juniors on Saturday!!!!!