Westernaires is a precision mounted drill riding group, this blog was used to record my time at Westernaires. I leased a 21 year old quarter horse draft mix named Bo. Prior I rented and rode Stretch, Chey, and GoldDust. My teams were T1, J1 (Top Junior),White Star (Captain), Colorado Stampede (Captain), Nighthorse Rangers, Royal Rangers, Red Liberty, Red Ropes, White Vaulting, White Batons, Jr. Instructor, and Jr. Wrangler. I now ride on the Evergreen Drill Team since I graduated in 2017
Monday, June 1, 2015
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.
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