Summer Ride 6/29

It was so weird not having the seniors there. I rode GoldDust again. We rode two grand entry drills and I was in serpentine because I'm new. Then we rode two drills and I was 3-6 and 3-8. GoldDust was so tired by the end but she did really good. I think we are beginning to figure each other out. She was taken by the next class so I headed home :) Two more rides before Heritage Show!

ESTES!!!!!!!

I LOVE SHOWERS. I will never under appreciate them again. I'm going to break estes down by day.

THURSDAY
- Grooming night. Between my partner and I we were done and packed in less than an hour. Luckily GoldDust barely has any white so we didn't have to give her a bath.
FRIDAY
- I woke up at 4am to get to Westernaires by 5:30, we got GoldDust all wrapped and groomed. Then my partner loaded her while I loaded a Keno for a guy. Then I carpooled up to estes and got there early after some Starbucks hahaha. So we loaded our stuff into the gym before turning in the car keys and checking in. Then by the time I found my stall my partner already had gold dust settled. We forgot to buy extra shavings which came back to bite us on Saturday. Then was lunch and all teams practice before the practice show at 1. I got to ride serpentine all weekend so that was a real treat! The practice show was good. We never got a line up so that was frustrating but ropes was at the end of the show so i had eons to change. I had a small horse quick change from royal to crimson. Then we had dinner and it was show time!!! We wore our purple vests with black jeans. GoldDust had a perfect place to tie the saddle cover down so that was really nice. Royal did AMAZING!!!! It kind of sucked that I was a point but it was still an amazing drill. Ropes I messed up lay down but handshake and Texas went AMAZING!!!!!!! I was so ready for bed. We had a 10min walk from the horses to the gym and we had to walk it sooooooo many times each day. Not to mention changing outfits every 10 minutes. I fell asleep before lights out at 11.
SATURDAY
- 6am wake up call....love it hahaha. We had breakfast and got the horses stretched out and exercised. Then we headed into town to promote the show and shop. I bought a horse hair keychain that almost identically matched stretch's color. After that was personal time. I chose horse time so I hopped on GoldDust bareback and just let her walk the whole time. We trotted a little but I really just wanted to give her time out of the stall. Then we had senior speeches......I'm just gonna say i cried like a baby. Then we had dinner and got ready for show #2! Our seniors chose pirate shirts but with red jeans. I prefer them with black but oh well! I will never get over how comfortable those shirts are. Royal had a good ride but not as good as friday. Ropes on the other hand was perfect. All my tricks were amazing!!!! Then we hiked the hill yet again and went to sleep.
SUNDAY
- 5AM WAKE UP! At this point everyone was sooooo done and ready to go home. We got the stalls cleaned out and checked by a barn dad. I waited to load golddust. We were up the ramp for the last trailer spot but stax was freaking out so they put teddy on instead of me. So I waited for another 20minutes. I was one of the last waiting to load. I finally had my friend load gold dust because my carpool had to leave. So we drove down to the fairgrounds. Once I arrived at about 9:30 i found out trailer 102 blew a tire.... guess which one gold dust was on. 102. So All the other trailers arrived at about 10 and mine didn't show up until about 12:30. I was so hot and tired and ready to go home. So was poor gold dust. My partner and I were desperately just trying to kill time. I finally got home at about 2pm.

Estes was so much fun. I was so done with walking and changing clothes but my I am very happy to say that my first red division and travel show is complete!!! I can't wait for next year!!!!!!! GoldDust was a perfect little angel who always drank her water and did everything I asked of her.

Last ride before Estes!

We got the share list for Estes. I had GoldDust with my friend on Crimson. So happy it wasn't a boy or precisionette. The ride went well. I rode my usual spots. We are extremely ready and are going to rock it! It was super sad to see the seniors all decorated. So sad they will be leaving us this weekend

White Division Show 2016!

Wow yesterday was spectacular! I started my morning at about 7 I helped my friends groom for their liberty. My partner and I both had conflicts with White Vaulting so we went to Blue Vaulting at 8 for some practice before the show. We decided that she would ride tricks because I hadn't been in so long. I finally got to JI @10 and I rode Dodger!!! He was so fun :) I bought a 30ft rope to try for Texas skip and it made it sooooo much easier. Red Ropes was fun! We ran through our drill a few times. I am preforming Laydown and Handshake and we will decide at estes if I am preforming texas skip or not. For Liberty I had Rock again!!!!!! He wasn't having the greatest day. If the horse in front of me dodged he would too which was frustrating. But otherwise he is a great liberty horse. Batons was fun! I had to call the fire baton drill which was one extra thing to worry about besides the fire hahaha but it was fun! Then I had a few hours before check in for show. I drank water and tried to stay cool. For grooming I had bantaro. Thankfully all the horses were really clean so it didn't take long to show groom. I had Rock for show!!! I was so excited to have one of my favorite horses. Once I got checked in with all my teams, set up my quick change area (I had a back to back from batons into liberty) and got costumed for vaulting. I was riding my partner's horse for serpentine because she was in grand entry. Vaulting went well but we missed a whole maneuver.... something got messed up with circle. I don't know but we made it work!!! Then I had a long time between act 4 (vaulting) and act 20 (batons) I got to watch a lot of the acts and then I got costumed for batons. It went really well! I didn't drop my baton during the normal drill and I only dropped my fire baton once!!!! Then I raced out of batons and quick changed into liberty. They didn't get my vest on tight enough so one shoulder was off the whole time and I lost a cuff going in the gate and my shoe was halfway on but I didn't loose it!!!! White Liberty 1 was the only Liberty with NO HALT HO's!!!!!!!! Rock did amazing! I got thrown in the line up so I was behind better horses so we went over 2/3 jumps so a huge improvement :) It was so much fun and I already can't wait for our next show. By the time I got all my belongings gathered all the horses were taken so I headed home :)

Getting close to Estes!!!!! 6/15/16

Yesterday was incredible!!!!! Royal had such a great ride. I rode GoldDust #33 and she was actually really good!!!! She's soooooo chubby though lol. She was a little lazy but she has good gaits and gets the job done. She's stubborn with flying lead changes but she will pick up whatever lead you'd like from a trot. We rode with our hats! And flags!!!! I was so incredibly happy hahaha. We easily got four drills in and they were sooo good! We lined up outside the arena and ran in too. I was GPA 3 and then 3-6. My usual spots :) I honestly really liked GoldDust. Having to kick again was interesting Hahahaha. My friend graduated though :( it was so sad but exciting to watch her run through the graduation lines. I'm gonna be so sad next week when our last five seniors run out. Then I took GoldDust home and that was it! ONLY ONE MORE RIDE BEFORE ESTES IM SO NERVOUS BUT EXCITED AND I HAVE NO CLUE WHO MY SHOW HORSE IS!

Updated RIP

Along the way I missed a few horses

March 1 - Dancer
March 27 - Winddancer, Prissy, Nevada
April 9 - Money

Winddancer - You were my last tenderfoot ride and then you were retired. I was so sad to see you go beautiful girl.
Money - You carried me through White Division show on Stampede and were an all around amazing horse. RIP

Saturday and summer schedule

With pink Ranger training coming to a close I was able to JI at 8 I rode fast Eddie he only threw a couple bucks but otherwise he was fine. Then I had my final pink Ranger walk-throughs I called carousel and I called Crimson lease so that was fun. I also got 102% on the combined final!!! Which means I passed and I am finished with training for the rest of my career!!!!  Which I am honestly sad about. Red Ropes at noon was fun I will be performing laydown and handshake and possibly Texas skip at Estes. For liberty I had rock! I hadn't ridden him in ages but holy cow does he charge the jumps. I still took my bridle off though. Batons performed at the tack swap during our practice. It was my first time twirling fire in show and I only dropped the baton once. At three I finally got to go to vaulting after so many months. My partner's new horse is so bouncy and painful which makes me worried for show. I called the tricks as well. Overall not a bad practice. Except it was so hot during all my classes I wanted to die. I drank so much water. Having for back to back also I really is going to be hard

First Summer Ride - Royal

I rode pepper. He is so short Hahahahahaha. He was really good. I had my stirrups too short though. I'll have to fix that next week. Stretch was also ridden in Royal and I was sad I didn't have him :( we did 3 1/2 drills I was GPA 3 and 3-6 again but our drills weren't that great. Hopefully next week will be better. It was fun riding outside again

Last ride before summer and Interclub!

Wow. Where do I start. Saturday was kind of sucky because I couldn't ride or participate in many of my classes...wisdom teeth surgery sucks. I got 95% on our Crimson and lace final. I was so mad at myself. I've never failed a sequence and I messed up one number so I lost all 10 points which is why I only got 95 :( ugh I could kick myself! Then we took the combined final. It was hard! You had to ready sooooo carefully. Then we watched the precisionette ride. I had ropes at 11 but almost the whole team had conflicts so we just cancelled. I did one walk through with my team but then my instructor wanted me to sit out. We then got our hats (I only tried mine on because I wasn't riding) so we we could wear them at the ride to make sure they won't come off at show. Batons had a mock practice at 1 for girls like me who hadn't been in months! Royal I sat in the crows nest. It was so hard not riding. Royal rode four BEAUTIFUL drills which didn't make my life any easier Hahahaha but I am so excited to ride on Wednesday. I'm terrified to see who I'll have. Then we bade farewell to our monitor who was retiring.

Today was Interclub and I volunteered and helped organize classes. We got to be in dress reds! I also watched nighthorse preform. Stretch's riders flag boot broke and the flag fell through it getting trapped underneath stretch. The rider stayed on but a posse man was trampled stopping him. Everyone walked away with minor injuries and nothing broken. It was definitely scary and hard to watch but after that the drill went great. It made me super excited for Estes park. The competition went great and I had fun helping the kids :)