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
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Back to Back = EXHAUSTION
On Saturday I got to Westernaires and helped catch horses at about 7am. Then diagramming went well. I got 97% on my Flag final and a 99% on diagrams because of a few motion dots. SO CLOSE!!! My overall score for the whole drill was 99% so I was pretty apply. We started Kaleidoscope, took a sequence (passed it) and got only 10 diagrams. Batons was at 11 and we worked on some turn arounds and other tricks. Stretch was on the rail like normal. I decided to keep his pad forward this ride because we rode with Tenderfeet!!! We ran pretty hard during warm ups because we went a lot slower for the Tenderfeet. My kid was on Duke and he kept biting all the other horses. The boy did soooo well with him though. I dropped off after awhile because squishing Duke only made him more angry. It was a bit hectic but it was fun knowing we were being looked up too by the younger kids. After I put Stretch away I raced to ropes. I worked on my usual stuff. Then I got Stretch to JI at 2 :) He's so good in JI he loves it. At 3 I had Snookie for Liberty and I got to call the drill. Sadly we didn't jump. But it was an okay ride. Vaulting was at 4 and I rode base on my partner's horse. He did so good and we tried a lot more tricks on him. We haven't tried one leg hang since I fell or one leg layover. Otherwise we do everything else. It was a good day but I was sooooo tired by the end. On Sunday I made my cool out blanket for Stretch! I think it ended up a little longer than wide but I still think it'll fit him pretty good! I can't wait to try it on him :)
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Ha, I remember riding with Tenderfeet
ReplyDeleteHey Westernaire Gal its me lainie and I was just going to ask why are you not doing the guess the horses any more can you start doing that again also can you update the list of horses that you have rode?!?
ReplyDeleteI've just gotten really busy lately. Also only one person was guessing. I'll try and start them up again soon and do you want a list starting tenderfoot year?
DeleteI know what u mean i ad j2 and base backtoback
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