Yet again I have been completely lax on this blog. I have
been in high gear building the barn, managing contractors and the like. Things
are coming along, we moved all the horses over May 15th. Tomorrow
the floors will be poured and the Amish are expected back on Friday to finish
up the wood work.
Regal made his move to Training, with a great dressage test in the pouring rain on grass, his score was 27.7 and we scored mostly 8s with a couple of 9s. He was clean XC but
unimpressed with stadium pulling 3 rails at all the easier fences, jumped the
hard fences well, I can only hope that as he continues to move up and get move
impressed with his job this habit will resolve itself. In the meantime I will
continue to work on strength and developing the best possible uphill canter to
make stadium as easy as possible.
Training horses is coming along well, right now my challenge is finding time to sleep and then ride everyone, but it is going well and all the horses and riders are making good progress. Lily is starting baby jumps. I am really focusing on her canter and head shyness right now. I think she will be slow to mature but, watch out for her when she does! i have enjoyed having some time to school Spiderman again and of course the baby OTTB parade has been fun!
Peri is going for her Pony Club rating this weekend and we will look to move her to Beginner Novice in July. As the end of the school year rolls around I suspect my teenagers will get into the full swing of show season. Amanda is graduating *sniff* she grew up so fast and will be heading with scholarships to Monmouth in the fall. She will be missed but we are all happy that she will be close enough to come home frequently.
About 3 runs from being done moving horses and everyone's stuff from the old barn to the new, my truck started making awful noises and I was barely able to drive. Thankfully I was not going fast and was able to pull over with Regal and Lily in tow and get some assistance from friends to get the horses home safe. Turns out my bearings were unhappy, so while in the shop with Kyle and Jim the truck got all new breaks. I hope she is happy as my purse was not...Now if I could only give her a bath we'd be good as new.
The barn has been busy we are welcoming many new boarders
and students to the new location and I recently sold Top Position, but he will
stay with us as a boarder. This of course means I was free to find another horse
to bring in to train and compete. My lovely calm bay gelding was replaced with
a red headed mare. She and I got along rather well on our meeting and I am
looking forward to turning La Rouge into a top eventer. For those of you that
don’t know me, my first horse was a little spitfire red mare called Scolly
Square. So this is really just coming full circle just bigger and my training
tool box has many more tools.
