Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Oh Happy Day!

I didn't fall off last night ;)

Oh onto the lesson... I haven't walked into a lesson feeling anxiety in a while but last night I did... trainer had this set up:

1 was a normal X, 2 was the latices (horse eating if you ask Henry) and 3 was an X but parallel to the ground- two polls and 4 standards- does that make sense?!

Anywho that dang 3rd jump haunted me all night...

I got on and started hacking a HIGH horse... trainer told me to get off and go run him around. I waited my turn and let him get the crazies out... got back on and it was so much better!

Then we moved onto jumping- we did 1 back and forth as a group trotting and then cantering. Then L and I did some mini courses... right lead to 1, then 2 and a tight/roll back to 3.. did it a couple times that way.. he jumped everything and way over jumped the crazy X thing but hey we did it!

Then we did 1 off the left lead to 2 and roll back to 3.

Good boy Henry! No stopping!



Cooled him out, groomed, put him away and gave kisses/grain.

Turn out today, lesson tomorrow, trainer ride Friday and lesson Saturday.

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19 comments:

  1. Beka BurkeFebruary 6, 2013 at 12:03 PM

    I don't know if it's the real or technical term for it, but we always called those X's that were parallel to the ground "floating X's." And I LOVED them because they looked a million times more complicated than they actually were.

    Sounds fun!

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    1. KarleyFebruary 6, 2013 at 2:54 PM

      That sounds like a good name for it.. that was totally what it was, floating! LOL :)

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  2. Kitty KatFebruary 6, 2013 at 2:25 PM

    Henry was a good boy last night considering all the odd jumps!

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  3. Boss Mare EventingFebruary 6, 2013 at 3:41 PM

    hey thats a neat fence, did your trainer explain the purpose of it?

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    1. KarleyFebruary 6, 2013 at 3:57 PM

      to scare the shit out of me ;) lol

      We do lots of different exercises (and jump all sort of jumps) and it's to create a well rounded horse I assume.

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    2. Kitty KatFebruary 6, 2013 at 4:14 PM

      I think its so nothing looks crazy to the horse or rider. Its amazing the jumps that freak us out aren't even usually the ones that the horses freak on lol

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    3. Boss Mare EventingFebruary 6, 2013 at 6:36 PM

      Very cool, ill have to set one up with my friends and see their reaction haha

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    4. KarleyFebruary 7, 2013 at 1:02 PM

      When we get to the show ring nothing will look odd to Henry and me lol!

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  4. ShelleyFebruary 6, 2013 at 7:10 PM

    Good boy Henry!!! Glad you had a good lesson! And I love that cartoon :-)

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  5. HillaryFebruary 6, 2013 at 9:01 PM

    Good job Henry!

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  6. LaurenFebruary 7, 2013 at 8:29 AM

    Woohoo, go Henry!

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    1. KarleyFebruary 7, 2013 at 1:05 PM

      It's sad when I am excited he didn't stop lol!

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  7. RuthFebruary 7, 2013 at 6:30 PM

    Yay that you had a good lesson. And no stopping - even better. :-)

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    1. KarleyFebruary 8, 2013 at 9:33 AM

      right!! Now if only we could keep the no stopping away :)

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  8. AnonymousFebruary 8, 2013 at 8:18 AM

    That third jump, the parallel to the ground x, is an interesting setup. Do you know what it works on, if anything in particular? Just curious. :)

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    1. KarleyFebruary 8, 2013 at 9:33 AM

      I am convince it's to share the shit out of me ;) But for real I have no idea other then it's making us a well versed horse and rider :)

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