Thursday, March 10, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
Saddle shopping!
Here we go... This was saddle #1, a 17" Beval Gladstone. I really liked it sitting in the store, I liked it on my horse but when push came to shove it just wasn't a good fit for either of us, or both of us together.
Sent that one back... Test rode in a 17" Richard Spooner this morning in my lesson, I liked that one much better!! Some pics and videos...
And videos...
So... Now.... The question is, do I go ahead and buy the Spooner? Or do I wait until Rolex and sit in 500000000 saddles? The problem is, our first XC school of the season is the week before Rolex, and I wanted a saddle to ride that in. Our first event is hopefully going to be 3 weeks AFTER Rolex and I don't want to be breaking in a saddle..........
Pros, cons. BLAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What to do?!?!?!?!?!
Sent that one back... Test rode in a 17" Richard Spooner this morning in my lesson, I liked that one much better!! Some pics and videos...
And videos...
So... Now.... The question is, do I go ahead and buy the Spooner? Or do I wait until Rolex and sit in 500000000 saddles? The problem is, our first XC school of the season is the week before Rolex, and I wanted a saddle to ride that in. Our first event is hopefully going to be 3 weeks AFTER Rolex and I don't want to be breaking in a saddle..........
Pros, cons. BLAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What to do?!?!?!?!?!
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Killing time... Early spring, anyone??
So. Phil saw his shadow, and Columbus is under at least an inch of straight ice... Woohoo!
We had a photo shoot about a month ago at the barn... On a rare sunny day. Here are some pics, thank you to my friend Sara Bluntschly at Treasured Image Photography for taking the pics! She's fabulous :)
Yes, no helmet... I know... It was an impromptu decision to jump on. Every horse, every ride, but I'm as safe as I can possibly be with Stepp.
I know.. STUPIDITY. Okay done.
And then last week Stepp and I enjoyed the snow...
Happy Early Spring, everyone! The end of months of straight dressage is near...
We had a photo shoot about a month ago at the barn... On a rare sunny day. Here are some pics, thank you to my friend Sara Bluntschly at Treasured Image Photography for taking the pics! She's fabulous :)
Yes, no helmet... I know... It was an impromptu decision to jump on. Every horse, every ride, but I'm as safe as I can possibly be with Stepp.
I know.. STUPIDITY. Okay done.
And then last week Stepp and I enjoyed the snow...
Happy Early Spring, everyone! The end of months of straight dressage is near...
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Here we go! 2011!
Time to prepare for 2011... THANK GOD. Right now we are entirely focusing on dressage... Because, well, we suck. Stepp wil be 17 this April... I can't believe it. We're going to start him on Adequan come March, right now our schedule is:
1 day a week lesson, once a month a training ride instead of a lesson
2 days a week longing in side reins
2 days a week hacking
2 days a week convalescing
We've regressed horribly with our dressage... About 3 months back. So we'll get on track and aim for an event in May, hopefully either May Daze or the Winona H.T. at Stone Gate. I will try to get some videos and pictures soon so we can have visual aides on our (expected!) progress. I think my end goal is to try to get to AECs.... We'll see!
In the meantime... From December 19th...
1 day a week lesson, once a month a training ride instead of a lesson
2 days a week longing in side reins
2 days a week hacking
2 days a week convalescing
We've regressed horribly with our dressage... About 3 months back. So we'll get on track and aim for an event in May, hopefully either May Daze or the Winona H.T. at Stone Gate. I will try to get some videos and pictures soon so we can have visual aides on our (expected!) progress. I think my end goal is to try to get to AECs.... We'll see!
In the meantime... From December 19th...
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Apologies!
I've been awfully lax on this blog lately.. I went down to Breeders Cup last weekend, and I'm working overtime this week, so I've hardly been to the barn let alone able to post!
Check back for an update tonight :)
Check back for an update tonight :)
Monday, November 1, 2010
5 days, 3 hours, and 50 minutes.
Until ZENYATTA.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – By dawn Sunday, Zenyatta had already been out of her stall at trainer John Shirreffs’s stable at Hollywood Park for a 45-minute walk. It was to be the theme of her Sunday, a day after she worked six furlongs in 1:11.80 for Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup Classic at Churchill Downs.
Zenyatta was scheduled to have three walking sessions Sunday. She was back out for another walk in the 9 o’clock hour on Sunday morning and was to be walked and grazed in the afternoon. The only unknown was how long Shirreffs and his team could delay the start of the afternoon session.
“In the afternoon, she’ll walk for another 45 minutes, but that depends on how she behaves all day,” Shirreffs said. “Around 2:30 or 3, if anyone walks down the shedrow that she knows could walk her, she starts pawing the ground. If we can keep it quiet, we can stretch it to 5 after 3. Otherwise, you’ll be out there for an hour and 20 minutes.”
In the afternoons, Zenyatta is walked both in the shedrow and in an outdoor walking ring that encircles a patch of grass about the size of a tennis court. That grass is an afternoon snack for Zenyatta.
“She’ll graze and walk down to the other end and graze and then drag you down to the other end again,” Shirreffs said.
The unbeaten winner of 19 races for owners Jerry and Ann Moss, Zenyatta, 6, is scheduled to be flown to Churchill Downs early Tuesday for Saturday’s race. She is scheduled to have a light exercise on Hollywood Park’s training track Monday.
DRF.com
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – By dawn Sunday, Zenyatta had already been out of her stall at trainer John Shirreffs’s stable at Hollywood Park for a 45-minute walk. It was to be the theme of her Sunday, a day after she worked six furlongs in 1:11.80 for Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup Classic at Churchill Downs.
Zenyatta was scheduled to have three walking sessions Sunday. She was back out for another walk in the 9 o’clock hour on Sunday morning and was to be walked and grazed in the afternoon. The only unknown was how long Shirreffs and his team could delay the start of the afternoon session.
“In the afternoon, she’ll walk for another 45 minutes, but that depends on how she behaves all day,” Shirreffs said. “Around 2:30 or 3, if anyone walks down the shedrow that she knows could walk her, she starts pawing the ground. If we can keep it quiet, we can stretch it to 5 after 3. Otherwise, you’ll be out there for an hour and 20 minutes.”
In the afternoons, Zenyatta is walked both in the shedrow and in an outdoor walking ring that encircles a patch of grass about the size of a tennis court. That grass is an afternoon snack for Zenyatta.
“She’ll graze and walk down to the other end and graze and then drag you down to the other end again,” Shirreffs said.
The unbeaten winner of 19 races for owners Jerry and Ann Moss, Zenyatta, 6, is scheduled to be flown to Churchill Downs early Tuesday for Saturday’s race. She is scheduled to have a light exercise on Hollywood Park’s training track Monday.
DRF.com
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