Thursday, August 18, 2011

Hey hey heyyyy!

So, I'm baaaaaaaaack!


Right. My first ride back was oh so interesting. ;) So I get on and am a little wobbly, I can't post right, etc, but it got better after a while. Sasha was really good considering I was flopping like a fish! Her canter felt soooo nice, my trainer said she has been really really good. It was quiet, but I could feel the impulsion and her pushing from her hind end.


 I decide to pop over a few jumps. She's pretty good, so I decide to do a line. Well. I do it, she rushes a little, not badly, and we land and turn sharply because someone is on the rail there. I lean a little, and Sasha cuts in really fast and shakes her head and goes faster. I half fall off, but then pull myself back in the saddle, then all of a sudden I fly off. That was stupid. I hit really hard, and had the wind knocked out of me pretty badly. I was lying there moaning and I just couldn't stop! After I catch my breath, I get back on and do another jump. She was awesome, so I called it quits. OH! My friend was recording me on her iPhone and caught the fall! So I need to see if I can get that up.


The next day I have a lesson, and it went fairly well. I did a diagonal line and jumped a 2'6" oxer. She was pretty quiet, she got a little fast at one point but then settled down. It was raining, and she treated the rain like bugs and was shaking her ears and swishing her tail.


I rode her three days ago in my new monogrammed baby pad =) and it was pouring. I rode inside, and I couldn't get her to move! Not literally, but she kept breaking at the canter and I had to squeeze really hard. I ended up making her canter a really fast circle and then I just took my leg off and got a normal canter.


I rode in the mud two days ago. I trotted and cantered her over one of those little flower things that go under jumps, and she kept trying to go around it, but I didn't let her. I cantered her in a circle with one hand, and she was really good!


Yesterday, she was in the peak of her heat, which is when the backing up + rearing + bad refusals always happen. Also, the footing was a little slippery from the mud which makes her quick sometimes, the gate was open because a camp was visiting my barn for a field trip and they were getting pony rides, and the kids not getting pony rides were watching me ride and whooping and screaming every time I landed from a jump. Guess what? She was the best she has ever been. I put her in Noodle's (my friend's horse) bit as my trainer asked, and she was really good. It was a double jointed Happy Mouth D ring. She was going in a Korsteel Full Cheek Dr. Bristol before. I was amazed at the difference! She only got slightly quick twice, after a diagonal going home while doing a lead change in the middle of a mud puddle, and she hates going through puddles. I did a line to a single diagonal and jumped around 2'9", but it was really built up -- lots of poles.


=)) So I went to the local tack shop today and got her a D-Ring Happy Mouth (my mom calls it a baby bit lol), as well as new breeches (ripped a pair the other day -- snagged on my safety stirrup while I was dismounting! Oops!), a leather halter [spoiled myself!], a black lead rope (not paying $30 for a leather LEAD ROPE), more supplements, braiding bands so her mane lays flat for braiding next week, my mom ordered me one of those horse bracelets for my birthday in 3 weeks, and I think that's it. Yeah.


I'm riding later on today. Ugh, I have to do 14 stalls tomorrow, and I did 8 last Saturday (and next as well) and 8 on Tuesday. I'm at a show Wednesday - Sunday next week and am trying to pay it off. Sasha is also getting "married" tomorrow! Awww my baby is all grown up! You know what this means -- cake and carrot crunchies!