Stampede Saturday 1/17/15

So yesterday was a good and bad day haha. So I got my horse, Banjo #117. So it was SUPER windy this morning. So bad our rides were moved inside. Banjo was great for grooming he is just so tall. So we had to warm up in the blue with J1 while they watered down our arena. It felt cool being the older rider haha. There was this beam of light coming through the window and I felt Banjo tighten up and start shying away. I couldn't stop him. He reared and spun around to the center. It was kind of fun actually haha. I lost a stirrup but I wasn't shaken up. My instructor said,"It's the light so you'll just have to push him through it." So each time we went by I gave him an extra nudge. He actually tried to jump it a couple times. His trot isn't bouncy but it's definitely not smooth. He also has a ton of energy so I had to check and release a lot. When we got to move into the Red I circled Banjo a couple of times to get him listening more and he spooked at a puddle of water. He is a fidgety horse hahaha. So we actually worked on our drill a little! We worked on Propeller, Out, and Diagonal Pass Through. I rode 3-7 and 1-7. We didn't actually have positions but that's where I was riding. None of my team knew what they were doing. My instructor kept asking questions and me and another rider were the only ones answering. Eventually she said," Does anybody else besides these two know what they are doing?" It was funny the way she said it. I just wish my team could get it together. I was on the very inside of Propeller and Banjo pivoted so nicely. Diagonal Pass Through was so scary when people didn't know what they were doing. That's all I'm gonna say. The whole thing wasn't very pretty. So we made a group in the middle and my instructor was not happy. She said if she were to name officers today there would be 3. You know who they are. Your diagrams can be pretty but if you can not apply it in the arena it doesn't matter. She also said it was very obvious who had studied. So I tied Banjo on the rail. I watched some of my friends Glory ride. Then I had diagramming. I got 4's on all my diagrams except 2. I forgot motion dots (wow stupid!) and switched the numbers on my propeller (again stupid) So then we went over some study tips, and what to study. Then we went out for a walk through. They said pick your spots!!! I ran over to 1-1 and no one else fought me for it :) I GOT TO CALL OUR FIRST WALK THROUGH!!! I felt like I did really well for my first time. Because we switch callers in our drill it was kind of hard to call after Out of Star. We all got pretty scrambled up after Fours Crossed the Center so we stopped and looked at the diagrams and just lined up anywhere. I ended up as 4-7. Lace is really hard to do. I hope I get a chance to call again :) So that part of the day was good. Then I went home and my corrections took 2 minutes. That was my day :) I just wished we had gotten to lope.