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
Thursday, August 10, 2017
My first ride back after vacation!
Thankfully the impending afternoon rainstorms held out but the arena was still super thick deep mud. So our we greatly decreased our speed which probably helped us tighten up a little. The owners had to clean the volunteer and we didn't finish until 6:10 and I had to saddle Bo and Jack. I rode Bo up the arena and he was hardly limping. We started trotting and he was definitely limping but it was less than before. Loping he was fine. We did half of warm ups and I felt like he had done enough. Especially with the poor footing I didn't want to push him. So I switched over to Jack. The first drill I was 4-8 so that was a ton of fun! Then I was 1-1 and got to call!!!! I was so excited :) Then we lined up a third drill and I was GPA 3 point. I haven't ridden point since February so that was a shift but I know we are giving everyone a chance in team and I rode amazing spots the first two drills so I didn't care. We only got through half of that drill anyway. We rode with flags so luckily it wasn't too windy. Jack did amazing and I'm figuring out how to sit his weird gaits a little bit better :) Overall it was a pretty successful ride.
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