Entries for October 2008

What an amazing horse I have!

My dressage test went fairly well. There were a few places we felt sticky, plenty of room for improvement. I was told by others that he looked good, but I still felt that it was just okay.

Show jumping went well with another double clear. For some reason all the jumps looked very spooky to Eddie, along with several other horses. He was just over jumping a few things here and there. It had a very good flow, overall, though.
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I went schooling before school yesterday at Twin Rivers. Tons of fun and very productive. We jumped nearly every Prelim corner there, and even one that was in the 2* at the last event. We also schooled all the difficult Prelim questions like the coffin, the waters, and the banks. Ed is still so funny with corners. He figures if he just jumps high enough, he won't have to worry about the particulars of the question involved. Silly boy. As long as I keep improving with my dressage, I should...

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:shakes fist at apartment-mate: I think she got me sick. Not really sick, but enough so that I don't want to drive the 30 minutes to the barn in chilly, overcast weather to ride.

I may have to go either way since it's going to probably rain sometime early tomorrow morning. Poor Penpen outside in her pasture.

I'm a bad person who picks fights with her TA.

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I had my first technical jump lesson today and it was definitely tough. We worked on lots of turning with the outside aids solely which concluded with a 1 stride, square turn, 1 stride with only 6 strides in between. It was tough because the jumps were all skinny. As in I/A level skinny. Accuracy was a must.

We also continued to pick Ed's brain with some tougher jumps in the sense of optical allusions. The first was a skinny jump shaped like this:
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