Merry Christmas!
I hope everyone is enjoying the chance to spend time with family and loved ones, particularly the furry kind! I love spending time at the barn on holidays when it’s quiet and I can take my time with the boys….
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Tag Archive: lunging
Better Together
Back to a day by day update this time! Monday night I did a quick bareback hack on Mr. P, followed by a lunge for Stampede. P and I disagreed about the kind of canter we wanted, so I ended…
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Around and Around
It is definitely hard to make lunging anything but boring. It’s also hard not to be in the way of other people working in the ring. It probably doesn’t help that there is someone else who has a horse coming…
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Good Stuff
I’d say this was a pretty good week for me. Let’s start from the beginning. Good news with Stampede: I lunged the beast for the second time on Monday then hopped aboard on Wednesday. How was this horse ever crazy?…
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Rough
This week was really no fun for me outside of the barn for a bunch of reasons I won’t bore you with. These are the times when I’m glad to have the boys and my husband to keep me grounded….
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Sweater Weather
Yesterday I had a lesson on Stampede. Definitely a large improvement from last weekend. He was much more cooperative on the flat, even at the canter. I often have a hard time cantering him indoors because his stride is so…
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Wordless Wednesday
Horse Show
The more time that goes by since the horse show the happier I am with how Stampede was. His biggest issue is that he is never the same horse at shows that he is on a normal day and that…
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Convenient
I guess I should be used to Stampede’s antics by now. We were supposed to horse show this weekend. I got one him Tuesday for my lesson ready for one last jumping session before the show. He had been holding…
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