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, July 3, 2016
Specialties 7/2
I finally had some free time to JI so I signed up for the eight and 9 o'clock classes. I got Patrick and he did fine for grooming besides being a little pushy but that's normal. That class went fairly well Patrick is pretty good at the cones. Then for the second class I got my baby boy stretch!!!!!!!!! It has been months since I have ridden him and I was so happy to be back in his saddle. There was a girl on Rocky who I stayed next to most of the ride because she was pretty scared I was really proud of her though because she did most of it with lots of encouragement. I did the cones with stretch and it was literally flawless no head tossing perfect lead changes ahhh! I've missed that horse. Then I watched red Roman and white liberty 4 until red ropes. The majority of our team is on varsity who was away at a show so we just practiced tricks. My friend and I spent the hour trying to come up with new tricks. Then during the last 5 minutes my instructor had me try a 60ft loop!!!! I've always wanted to try that trick! She even gave me her rope to take home and mess around with!!!! It's super tangled though so you only have a few tries before you have to stretch the rope out again. For Liberty I had GoldDust! They gave everyone their team horse if they do Liberty because of heritage show. That way we have less horses to bring down. She is AMAZING at Liberty :) I had a lot of fun with her. Batons we practiced a drill and some tosses and left early. Vaulting went well personally! I did tricks the whole ride stood through the whole propeller and mostly held every trick all the way across! The team needs some work. But we will get there. I can't believe it's July already. Summer always goes wayyy to fast.
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hey quick q&a. Rolo's not available to juniors, right? Also, does Belle buck when you check and release? I have a teammate who says she has ridden everyone, and that Belle bucks when check and release. Not sure I believe her.
ReplyDeleteplease let me know as soon a possible
ReplyDeleteNo belle does not buck when you check and release. She could be referring to "pop tarting" which happens sometimes when horses stop more on their front end than hind and it can pop you high out of the saddle and I guess I could see how that could be confused with bucking. And no rolo is not available to anything below AAA to my knowledge
DeleteThanks so much! Sorry is late havent been able to check lately
ReplyDeleteI want to try Stretch so badly! Do you think he will be availible to Junior if he already isnt soon?
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely not. He's not allowed below red division right now. He was in AAA but cause too many accidents so now he is red division only.
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