Will I Ever Go To All My Specialties?

So yesterday went really well! I had vaulting at 8 so we had to groom and saddle. I groomed our Vaulting horse Rusty and my partner groomed my baby boy TomCat. Vaulting went really well, we worked on tricks and then vaulting while moving and butt vaulting. I almost butt vaulted on a really short owner horse, I was soooo close. Then my partner was able to mount while we were moving, I just worked on mounting standing still hahaha. Then I re saddled Rusty and watched Varsity. At 10 I got to go to batons in what felt like forever. I learned a little bit of the fire routine while the red division girls worked for Annual. At 11 I JI'd for T4. I got Squirt! Unfortunately the girl I was helping was on Molly and the two of them didn't work so well. I did the best I could I guess. Ropes was at 1 and it was a ton of fun! Danielle called out tricks so she could watch red division for move ups. Then we played a relay game but we ran out of time so I didn't get to go. Oh well. It was still a fun class we laughed and goofed off. Then I got to watch my friend in Royal at 2! She did amazing and at 3 I watched my friend try out for Red Trick, I'll just say she fell and it didn't go well but she is okay and so is her horse, nothing overly serious. At this point I had to go home because I had homecoming. Soooooo I HAD TO MISS LIBERTY :( I would've ridden TazToo and we worked on no hand jumps. It's a miracle if I ever make it too all my specialty classes.

Standard Drill Show 2015!!!!!!!

Today was a good Saturday (which one isn't to be honest). I rode at 8 for stampede and I had Skeeter #62. We just rode Standard so no loping which kind of sucked. Then I raced to JI at 9 and I had Amigo #54. I did soooo much better with him this time. I got complimented a lot for how well I helped the kids so that made me happy. I left for a little bit and came back. I gave TomCat a name tag. Then we had "grooming" for show. Basically we just brushed off the dirt and show bridled. I groomed wyoming and molly then took hunter down to the arena. Then the show began! We costumed during white star. I put on my chaps for the last time. I got Sue #128 for the show. She wasn't so sure about me mounting in chaps but after she was fine. The show went pretty good! Sue would spaz in the corners, she didn't like being alone or waiting. It wasn't our best but Standard Drill is harder with a bigger team and we didn't have as much time as we needed to practice it. We quickly uncostumed and watched glory riders. They were AMAZING! Like I can't even describe it. Then it was time to wait on the rail, the show was in the Volunteer.
Single A
3rd: Chaparrals
2nd: Trailblazers
1st: Legionnaires
Double A
3rd: Gauchos
2nd: Cowboys
1st: White Star
Tripple A
3rd: Blue Rangers
2nd: COLORADO STAMPEDE
1st: Glory Riders
I was so happy that we pulled off second place :) We had 87.65/100 points. Glory finished with an amazing 99.85/100 - that's how amazing their drill was. Then I got to unsaddle my baby boy Rock and my day was done :) I submitted my stall card design and I think I may have won :)

Ticket Rally 2015

Last night was the ticket rally and my birthday! I wore a tiara lol. It was short which was nice and a lot of fun. The ticket horse is a quarter horse mare named ruby but she won't be here for another week or two. Stampede got challenged by shadow riders. Whatever team sells more as a whole wins and the losers get to clean the winning teams boots. Should be fun. Annual show here we come! 

Guess the Horse #33

Congrats to RidingWithPride the correct answer was Cinder #34. 

I am a 9 year old dark buckskin quarter horse mare. I run precisionettes and down. I have a star and three white socks. My number is between 55 and 60. Who am I? 

1/2 Day of Specialities

Last night I went to grooming to help teach the new T1/9 kids. I got two T9s and I picked Sally as our horse. Both of them did really well. Then this morning I was back to help again. We got them out on time so yay!!! I ran to ropes and we just worked on specialties. Then I got Cisco for my JI at 9. We walked the entire class so Cisco got REAL impatient.  I had an hour before Liberty so I signed out my horse and I had Skeeter. He was on the rail so I unsaddled him and watched precisionettes. Skeeter was really good for Liberty he just has a lot of energy and doesn't respond to the wire very well. He is a lot more leg cue. I didn't take the bridle off but I didn't use it. It was more to keep skeeter from going totally crazy. We worked on hopscotch jumps were we have two in a row. It took a few tries to get the timing down but it was super fun when I did! Skeeter only dodged one jump and then he was fine. I had to miss batons again for Liberty. I had to leave right after for family so I missed vaulting. I was pretty bummed but oh well :( Liberty move ups are getting turned in next ride so two weeks. So we won't know until the first week of October or so.

Specialties 9/5

My first class on Saturday was ropes at 8am. I got there at 7 and practiced for an hour before class even started. During class I worked on Step-Through and double spoke hop. Danielle also had a few others and I try drag hop with a 30ft rope. It was really hard. Then I had to miss batons because of Liberty. Since it's move ups my instructor let me go. I got Pepper! I was so happy :) I VAULTED BY MYSELF FOR THE FIRST TIME!!!! The class wasn't what I hoped though. We just played games and only did two half jumps and one full. We played a game where you had to keep a card under your thigh for the full jump and I did it!!! I was very proud. I have my phone next to me now hoping for a phone call.... we will have to wait and see! After I saddled Pepper I had a break until 2. I got TomCat for JI again! AHH! I was so happy. That little horse and I have really clicked. He's such a sweetheart. We played a lot of games because it was their last Tenderfoot ride. We also rode standard drill with them. It was super hard for me because I had on girl who could't get her horse to move and the other had count who was biting everyone. We played the boot game where they take one boot and scramble them all up. Mine got dirt stuffed down it and I had to sing my ABC's, cartwheel, and summersault before I could get it back. It was a very fun class overall. Then I raced to Vaulting and my partner had WitchDoctor. We got a leg up because he was huge!!!! He was great for vaulting though. We played games with the tricks and just had fun before we hopefully greet some new girls next weekend. So nervous for Liberty move ups!!! I want to move up soooo bad

Great Saturday! 8/29

Sorry for the delay! I've been really busy. My Saturday started out with Colorado Stampede. I got Cheyenne #80! I was super excited because I'd never ridden her and she has a smooth trot. Which is great because we are working on standard drill. She was amazing for the ride! She did really well. I'm not calling Standard however :( Kind of sad but excited to ride a new position. I rode 1-6 and 2-6 so I have to build on the star weirdly. Then we played catch up in 8's and Cheyenne took off and kept up! Until she decided she was done and planted the breaks. Then I raced to get a horse for J2 and I GOT ROLO!!!!!! OMG I was so excited :) I think I was the first White Divison JI to ride him. He is still learning how to circle but listened so well. I watched Precisionettes and headed to my JI meeting at 12. They announced Top 10. I'm hoping to make it on there this year since I wasn't eligible this time. My last activity was JI at 2 for J7. I rode TomCat! I love that little boy. He does start bucking when you lope but nothing I couldn't handle. I really would like to be assigned to him next year except he doesn't like to lead. JI was pretty boring to day because they were doing equitation testing. Then I unsaddled TomCat and put him away. I was super tired by the end. I also bought my Jr. Wrangler and Jr. Instructor patches, now my blouse is complete!