Spur Straps!!!!!!

So I actually got very crafty for once and made my own bling spur straps!!!! I'm in love and can't wait to try them out this Thursday at the ride! 

Guess the Horse #30

The winner last time was again NeonRain :) and the answer was Star #60

This weeks riddle is I am a 18 year old quarter horse gelding. I am a tall bay with light brown eyes. I run lower red division down to tenderfeet and am a bit bouncy. My number is between 1 - 5. Who am I?

Sunday Show!!!!!

Base team shows just never stopbeing fun. Sunday was a blast! Minus the heat and boy was it hot. Stampede had to groom and saddle and I originally had princess but she threw a shoe. So then I pulled up amigo so the wranglers could look at his feet but he went home cause he wasn't being used. So I just got to run around and help my teammates. Then we met up at the stands and sat together as a team. I get really bad show nerves for team shows. Like really bad. I'm fine once I'm in the arena but waiting makes me seize up lol. So stampede finally got to go get costumed. I loved walking around in my chaps. They began to give us horses and I got Money! I was soooo happy :) he is a really good horse. So stampede puts their saddle covers under the stirrups so a little different from white star but it was much easier in my opinion. Mounting in chaps was awkward and challenging though lol. You feel so official in costume. I got handed the team flag and led my team to the gate. The announcer introduced Colorado stampede I yelled IN HO! And off we went! The next 6 minutes were almost a blur. Money did amazing and did everything I asked. We had Molly take off and cause a bunch of problems so I ended up in third four at one point. Our star was terrible but everything else was okay. We all ended up riding totally different spots so I was really proud of how we came together as a team and corrected our mistakes. Then somehow I ended up back as 1-1 for the end of the drill. Who knows. I loved loping though omg. It's soooo much better than trotting. I also geek out betting to hold the te flag. I consider it a HUGE honor and take it very seriously. Overall it wasn't to bad. We have a LOT of work before olympics in August but we are getting there. Then I unsaddled Bantaro after the show was over and headed home. First show weekend of the year was a sucess!!!!

Saturday Practice and Specialty Show!

Wow what a long tiring day. Started out with four back-to-back classes and having to miss liberty again. I also had my trial JI ride and I rode Amigo. It went really well and I can't wait to be able to JI consistently.  All the practices went really well and I felt good for show. My partner and I got Rebel for vaulting practice. It was very painful hahaha but luckily we were in the white so it was short. JI training at two went well and we practiced with toy horses. Then my friend and I laid in the volunteer and rested until check for show. This was my first show having to deal with quick changes so that was interesting I had to find my quick change area and set up my costumes. I checked in with the wranglers and found out my partner and I had Rebel for the show. Oh boy! Fitting that our first vaulting ride ever should take us through our first show. So I put our pads on him cause he was only being used for us. Vaulting renters also had to lay out all the teams costumes. Finally the show started. My first act was ropes. My tricks just weren't cooperating :( isk what happened. Butterfly up the arm failed but large butterfly was awesome. Then in out and through sucked even though I'm good at that one :( handshake went really well and drag accordion was acceptable. I called the drill though and that went well. Then from I ran to the quick change area. That is a crazy experience. I was out of my ropes costume and into vaulting in less than two minutes. My partner was next to me and they already had Rebel up. We were in line ready to go before the next act finished. Talk about adrenaline rush! That was crazy. Vaulting actually went really well! My partner and I managed to stay on the whole time and the team actually did really well on pass through!!!! Overall it was a good drill :) I really enjoyed preforming in that specialty. After was another quick change to batons but I had more than one act in between so it was less stressful. For batons our performance went really well! I didn't drop my baton but our star got a little screwed up and had five arms. But double batons went well for me. It's so cool to be in the arena preforming the specialties you used to watch. I was done after that and stayed and watched the rest of the show. Well done everyone :) 

Last Practice Before Show 6/18

Sorry this is so late. But on Thursday we had our last practice before show and we actually got to be outside!!!!!! It was very exciting then I was given Cisco :( Oh dear hahaha he loves to run but doesn't stop all that well. I noticd a really bad saddle sore while I was grooming him so I got to take him home and grab Rocky instead!!!!!!! I was soooooo excited :) I was 1-1 the whole ride and Rocky was born to ride that position. When we got to propeller he kicked it into precisionettes and we ran that propeller sooooo fast. He listened to cues soooo well, it was a dream. We loped 3 drills and trotted one as a warm up. Overal not a bad practice. 

First Summer Ride 6/11/15

Sorry for the delay in this post I've been really busy. We got moved inside yet again so my team was in the red arena. I got Skeeter! I was so excited he is such a fun horse to ride! We loped through 3 drills and I rode 1-1 the whole time. Skeeter and I got to book it in the propeller. We were going so fast!!! We really only have a few areas of the drill to clean up. It's finally coming together!!!! Then we cooled the horses off. Skeeter was soooo sweaty. It was really humid. It was raining when we unsaddled. We have our last ride before show tonight and I'll try and post that one on time :)  

Guess the Horse #29

So nobody won last week but the answer was Westie #4

Your riddle for this week is, I am a 14 year old mustang and am the definition of mare. I have a star on my forehead and am black all over. I have big feathers and am very stockily built. My number is between 60 and 65. Who am I?

Interclub 2015

Interclub went amazing this year. The JGE performances and Nighthorse were awesome as usual. Both had some show jitters but recovered well. It was kind of fun watching and trying to pick out the winners. My friend won 1st in her class and second overall. I was so proud. WesternaireForever placed 3rd in her class. 3 of the top 5 were renters including the EE Wyland winner. Overall a successful day.

LOPING in the VOLUNTEER

So today went really well! All of Red Division except Nighthorse got cancelled and the Red Arena is under construction....so Stampede got the VOLUNTEER ARENA!!!!!!!!! Today I got Sally #53. She was amazing!!!!! She was perfect for grooming, and she wasn't too muddy. We got out the door on time too so that was great. It never gets old being on the other side of that rail. We did just a bit of warming up then lined up our drill. I was 1-1 :) Guess what!!!!! WE GOT TO LOPE OUR DRILL! It was all I could do not to charge into the drill lol. We had to start over once, and we did have some riders get kicked out of class. Honestly it whipped us into shape. She let them back in each drill though. I rode 1-1 the whole time. We did two drills with flags at a lope and one drill without flags. I had a beat up white one. The beginning of our drill goes really well but it falls apart after star. I was just so happy to be loping and calling. I'm pretty sure this is where we will ride for show. Sally was amazing! She got a little tired toward the end but she put in her all. Shes got pretty good gaits too. She likes to switch her leads at the last minute but LOVES to book it when we were one away from outside of propeller. I honestly liked riding her a lot. She was one of those horses I felt a connection with. Then my team had to weed the pasture hill and that took place instead of our walk through. I hung around and watched teams in the volunteer until 2 for JI training. We turned in our worksheet and went in depth into the content. Then we signed up for a tryout ride where we will go practice in the actual classes. I chose a Junior class. Then I went home. I'm going to Interclub tomorrow though so that should be fun to watch.

Two Years!!!!

Today marks the two year anniversary of this blog!!!!! Thanks to all of my followers and commenters who keep this thing rolling!!!!!

Guess the Horse #28

Last weeks winner was NeonRain!!!! The answer was Trooper #21

Your riddle for this week is I am a 14 year old sorrel gelding. I am a quarter horse with 4 with socks of different heights. I have a blaze that goes from wide to skinny and wide again. I have a habit of tossing my head while riding and run low red division down to tenderfeet. My number is between 1 and 5. Who am I?

Summer seems to be here....finally.

So Saturday was long and hot. I came early to grooming because of my sister. I was also at grooming Friday night. But anyway my first class of the day was JI training at 9. We got our booklets and went over some mottos and hours. Then we had to go observe some tenderfoot classes and analyze a JI and a tenderfoot. It was a pretty simple class. Then I had ropes. We had to tell our instructor what specialties we could do. Or in my case unable to do hahaha. Then we ran through a drill and she let me call!!!!! I was sooooo happy. Trying out for tricks was brutal though cause I hardly got a break. Then I had to go straight to Liberty and I had Molly #102. She was listening to the wire well but then we loped and she kept trying to charge and take off. So I kept the bridle on today. We worked on doing diagonal jumps while passing left hand to left hand. Molly was amazing! She loves jumping. She carried me right over. I'm beginning to develop a bad habit of leaning forward to much when I lift so I always land funny so I need to fix that. It was great getting to do full jumps again. It's still terrifying though hahaha. Later I had batons. We are still creating our drill for show but it's looking really nice!!! I got to ride in T8 with one of my lease horses to introduce her into the class setting. She did good except she wanted to go to fast and was very mouth sensitive. It was an interesting ride shall I say. Right after was Vaulting and my partner and I had Jericho!!! At this point though we were both exhausted. We got to ride in shorts and a tshirt though so that felt really nice. The first drill went well. We are doing well except our pass through is really rough. We are just struggling in with pace and guiding. I rode trick for the second drill because my partner was really tired. I held all the tricks but slipped off coming out of one leg hang and star. It was just exhaustion. It's gonna be a long summer :/ some blue vaulting girls took Jericho so we didn't have to unsaddle!!!! I crashed afterwards. I was so tired.