Fence

Well as you guys all know Vodka and I have our first hunter show on sunday so, on monday I was taking my normal jumping lesson but it was cold and rainy but no thunder or lightning so the jumping went on. Vodka usually isnt one to be a speed demon or not pay attention to half halts but, monday he completely tuned me out. After a line he would just run and no pay attention to me so I did what I had to do and run him into a fence. But after raming him in a fence a few times I was able to come to a halt after each line. Once I had his respect everything was good we were then able to canter the whole course landing on the right leads everytime he was perfect. I hated what I had to do to get his attention but I guess it is the end product the counts.

Well now im off to the barn. I have some people looking to buy my dressage saddle. I need to clip vodka cut his mane(his main is wayyyyy to thin to pull i hate it) and trim up his mane c yah!

shows....?

Well vodka is mainly a dressage horse but he really likes the hunter stuff and is good at it keeping in mind he is still very green. He never refuses a jump and is very willing. He doesnt always get the right distance but that will come with expirance. He jumps uberly round so he can be hard to stay with. Even for little jumps my crest releace has to be up by his ears and we just looks rediculous doing that.

Well I decided to take vodka to his first hunter show. Its just a little showing show. But im still not sure what classes to enter him in. I want to keep the jumps much smaller than what we do at home so the show is a completely good expireance for both of us. The only thing im worried about is those dredded flowers.

Once we went to my trainer's house to school over flowers and he jumped it all right way over jumped it actually. He even managed to snort at the flowers while he was going over the jump now that some really talent. He was also scared out of his mind because everything had spots there the dogs,horses and even some jumps the idea of spots just blew his mind silly horse. There was one other thing that completely blew his mind...mini donkeys omg i know scariest thing ever. What are they small horses? Funny looking dogs? Why do they have spots? Im sure all of these questions were going throught vodka's little mind. Okay well im off to the garden!

A bad lesson

Well today I had a lesson on Vodka with my barn's trainer. I have'nt had a lesson with her in a long time. Now let me was this lesson was...how to describe it...umm crappy might be putting it too nice but you have the idea.

It took V almost 20 minutes to even warm up enough to truely be in self carriage. He only ussually takes about 10 if that. He was all over the place and was nearly impossible to get straight he kept dropping his shoulder. This annoys me soooo much because he hasnt done this in a long time. I have no had either of these issues in months. Vodka was tense and not relaxed at all very annoying.

Now everything he is in the ring with my trainer he does this. Could he not like her this much? At first I thought it was me but when I ride other horses in lessons with her they go really well. The horses are good and the lessons are fun and upbeat. Everytime I have a lesson with V it goes not so hot. Vodka and I are good with my hunter trainer and the dressage trainers. Does anyone have any ideas what to do? Lessons with me Vodka and Kristin just dont click. Oh well...

Horses and Fire works...

Well as you can tell this would be a interesting post. As we all know horses and fireworks never mix. Well I thought people just did fire works on the 4th but little did I know they do them on the 3rd too! The horses are now on night turnout so, hosing Matty off from a great ride and all of the sudden Kabboooom!!! All the horses in the fields start running around in panic. The calm down so I continue giving Matthew his well deserved bath I put him in his stall and then guess what kaaaboom!!! Once again the horses start running around like retards again. Well the all settled down again except for the fours mares.

Well in this field of mares there is a little arab who likes to beat the crap out of the other horses she just kept running about and kicking,biting ect ect. The new mare in the field buttercup was scared out of her mind first the sky is exploding and now this little arab is beating the crap out of her. So I brought butter in (still scared out of her mind) and checked her for cuts and then put her in her stall.

Then, I tacked up my horse Vodka and he was already pissed because he had been kept in because I wanted to ride. Well this ride was strangly fantastic fire works and all. He had so much energy it was just great. He had really great lateral work today, his yeilds had nice cross and hunchs in you could really feel him step under. His canter work was nice and expressive even though he was a little spooky(well alot) but it was fun. Then the fire works just started going off left and right and he got to worked up so I cooled him out and put him in his field.

And of course the mares needed in because they just wouldnt calm down. By the end of the night most of the horses were in there stalls. Oh well for night turnout its the fireworks fault. Well needless to say all of the horses are staying in tonight because Im sure there will be even more fireworks.

Who is right?

Well some issues have come up in my local dressage club with sanctioning shows. They have a rule that a show must have thier papers in at least 30days before the show along with thier money. Well one of the local show barns sent in thier papers about 20 days before thier day with money but they are $5 short.

Should thier show be sanctioned?

I dont think it should because the club should follow all thier rules and making exceptions for one person will just give people the wrong idea. So they make an exception for one person and then someone else asks for the same deal...do you see the problem? I dont think the five bucks is a big deal it is just the fact that they did not follow the rules therefore (in my mind atleast) the show should not get sanctioned. Well the board of the club sanctioned the show. The vote was over by only one vote.