Today's ride highlights

Latest confo shot

Update

Took Bunny to her first AQHA show last month. Here are some photos:

Patti and Tara fixing my sad, sad braid job.


Warming up.


And then one of our flat classes.
I am so proud of her. She is coming along beautifully. We took a second in our 2'3 hack class and a fifth in our under saddle class, so I was thrilled hahah.

Yesterday, we went to a Rocking Horse 3-Phase just to get our feet wet, and to try to boost her confidence. A few weeks ago, she took a fence funny and scared the tar out of herself (and dumped me on my head.) I have it on video- I think my fall was kind of hilarious, but she was understandably freaked out. A few strides out, I had seen a long spot coming so I asked her to move up a bit. Didn't have enough step to fix it, so I asked for the long spot and, unfortunately, jumped ahead a bit. She took a really weird chip and I guess I must have thrown her off balance because she stopped halfway over (I think she hit the pole?), I ended up on her neck, and she ran backwards because, of course, having someone on your neck is weird.



So she was a little worried. I took a couple of weeks off of jumping outside of lessons and just worked on flatting. Anyways, the 3-Phase. I just took her to school and take her somewhere new. The first few warmup fences were a little sketchy- she was rushing and just generally having a hard time. After a few times through, with me just grabbing mane and staying off her back, she relaxed and we had a really nice schooling session. It was so nice to have all that room- I got some lovely shoulder in down the fence line and actually had enough space to work on lengthening her stride! Hahaha. Rode her all over the property- seriously, all over. Didn't have a single bobble or spook, and when Maddie's horse took an hour to load, she just sat quietly in the trailer and munched hay. (Our trailer is an, er, interesting setup so she had to be loaded first.)

Anyways, here is some horribly outdated lesson footage from October. Our little ring, between the gross footing and teenyness, is difficult to school any jumping in, so I do believe we were just working on fitting 3 and 4 strides down the vertical line and not throwing myself over crossrails because Xs happen to be my arch nemesis and I just can't seem to time myself.