Insane Day of Specialties 8/22

Yesterday was a great start to Winter Schedule. I had ropes at 8am and I worked on a new trick that I don't know the name of but I call it the running trick. I also worked on Tandem and Drag Hop with WesternairesForever, and of course Texas Skip. After class I was invited to preform at Tenderfoot Induction on Friday! I'm super excited to get to preform again. We got 8 spots this year so that was nice! I hope I get to preform Texas again. I had some time before Liberty at 11 so I watched Varsity and Precisionettes. I got Molly #102 for Liberty. At first I was a little apprehensive about having her again but I forced myself to take off the bridle anyway and OMG best decision I ever made. That little mare is now my favorite liberty horse. She responded so well to the bridle and took every jump like a pro! She tried to go back and jump again she liked it that much. I fixed my lifting a little and should have it down next ride. My instructors said I looked amazing today. I was on fire. I lost count of the jumps I did :) we also ran a drill and I got complimented again! I was super happy because they are looking for moves ups to white liberty this ride and next. Either way I'll be happy. I wouldn't mind staying on blue for the winter and moving up in the spring but I also would love to spend the winter on white for cancellation and conflict reasons. Plus I feel ready. I really do want to move up. I skipped batons for Liberty with permission of my instructor and it sounded like we just had a party so I didn't miss much. At 12:30 I headed over to JI for T6 at 1:00 and I got Sue. I was pretty excited seeing as I had never ridden her before. She was really sensitive and you could tell she ran red team because she would trot super fast instead of lope and would only lope super fast. Her gaits were pretty smooth though. It rained on us halfway through the ride. We worked on 8s and they can't guide but they'll learn especially next year. They didn't do terribly though. Immediately after I went to JI for T7. A girl on Royal took Sue so I got TomCat. He is a newer horse like scout. I was told to keep my spurs out of him or he would buck. He really didn't want to leave the rail. I had to literally drag him to class. He is really short! He was confused as to what leave the group of riders and go forward meant. After a little bit we started figuring it out, he needs a little spur so I gave it to him and he was fine. His trot wasn't terrible and neither was his lope. We basically played games the whole class so it was really simple. Then I ran to help my partner saddle our horse for Vaulting. We had Bingo. He was acting up in T7 and boy did he act up for us in vaulting. After we mounted in the middle we tried to get him out on the rail and it resulted in a rodeo bucking fest anytime we kicked him. All four of his feet were off the ground a few times. (Not gonna lie it was kind of fun!) We finally got him on the rail and tried a few tricks on him. He took it well until we did a pass through and their wasn't a horse in front of him. For class we played games and he didn't like having to leave the group. It resulted in more bucking unless a buddy went with him. We also tried a steppes pyramid and the owner horse next to me started bucking too so I had to bail onto Peppy. It was an interesting ride. The horses were just tired I think and ready to be done. That was the day!