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
Saturday, September 2, 2017
A Long Emotional Day
So I woke up at 5:30am, and got ready to head out for the day. I didn't have class until 10am but my friend was giving me a ride since my car broke. I watched Red Dressage tryouts at 8 and got breakfast at 9. My 10am class was just the yearly JI meeting. I knew I wasn't in Top 10 this year but I get to go on the trail ride anyway because I'm a senior so thats awesome and it's scheduled for my birthday yay!!!!! It was pretty brief so that was awesome. At 12 I took my leaser's horse Gypsy into her first class, it was a junior class but they ended up going on a trail ride so I just worked her in the arena. I'm developing a habit of looking down when I'm riding a new horse so I really gotta stop that. She's 100% Tennessee Walker so her gaits definitely take some getting used to but she's come a long way! Then I watched the beginning of Crimson before I got September ready for Royal. She was fired up today holy cow. We also rode with Flags today so that was awesome to get back into that habit. So September likes to jump the pee puddles in the arena and thought it would be fun to do that while we were running down the rail and then get scared of the red door. Oh dear. I stayed on but it kept me on my toes the whole time. I rode 2-1 and 4-5 today. We only got two drills in but then we rode around to YMCA and played catch up! I got to be on the rail and man can September move! I so wish I could've done it with Bo but she was amazing and hugged the rail like a champ and everything. SO MUCH FUN just getting to let them run. They were all super hot and sweaty after so it took me a while to cool her down. Then we let her drink and roll. She worked hard for me so I made sure to take good care of her in return. I had a small break and then I went to my last WL1 ride. Poor Reno was on his third class in a row so he wouldn't go above a trot which was okay since we were in the white anyway. I got to call one last drill and then we rode in the back that way new girls could begin to take the front. It was very sad since a lot of my friends are on that team but I'm so excited for my first red liberty next week. Then I helped with jumps for WL2 and load up the trailer so I left probably about 6:30pm. It was a long day but well worth it :)
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