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
Sunday, December 13, 2015
I Can't Horse Today....
Base team weekends are so nice and relaxing in comparison to specialties, oh my lord. I helped find horses in the morning because my sister rode early. It started snowing pretty hard so going inside for classroom was a relief. There was no t-shirt on my desk so I was point this drill. I got 100% on Quiz 3! We went out back to do our walk throughs. I was GPA 4 point. It went okay and the second drill I was 1-8. Then we went back inside. Nighthorse then handed out candy and it was so fun to see the kid's faces light up. I signed out Stretch and he was so much calmer than last week. We put cool out blankets on the horses and all of them were to small for him so it just looked silly. I worked Stretch in the middle and it really helped! He was so responsive and his stops were so much better. We actually clicked some more! I was so happy! There was one moment where a horse charged and if stretch hand't moved I would've got collided into. I also got Stretch into a flying left lead change which was huge! I was so proud! Overall so much improvement from last week for me and as a team. This coming Saturday will be our final for Flag so we only get to ride it one more time. Juniors was cancelled so I got to watch Crimson and Royal. Not a bad day but it was snowy and cold.
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I'm glad you and stretch are making progress! Nighthorse looked a lot better this week! Good luck on finals!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you and stretch are making progress! Nighthorse looked a lot better this week! Good luck on finals!
ReplyDeleteThanks! I think training with him is gonna help a lot too. I'm actually not to nervous
DeleteI did not get to ride so i did not take candy too sad :( J2 was cancelled and I forgot my diagrams so Chaparrals would not let me ride :(
ReplyDeleteAwe I'm sorry that sucks!
DeleteHello, i know that this site has been inactive for a long time, but should you ever see this, i want to tell you that Stretch continued to make progress, but unfortunately in 2018 he was re homed. I believe he now has ring bone, but he is living his life happily off westernaires grounds.
ReplyDeleteHi! I actually did follow Stretch's progress as I knew his rider up until his retirement! I really appreciate the update though!
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