Today Sara and I took Drew and Sully, the mare she is training while waiting for her to get pregnant, over to Tarrin’s to film the obstacles test for the Q2 Working Horse Central show. We were ready for fun!
It went pretty well, other than Sara’s first video failing. Luckily Sully did just as well the second time. She’s learned so quickly! And it’s beautiful to watch her trot.
Drew did okay. He started out refusing to do the figure 8, which confused me, because he hardly ever refuses to walk with me. Then he got better until he fell down heading into the slalom! I did the right thing by checking on him.
It got better after that and he did fine on the other parts. Tarrin said his jump was beautiful. That made up for the other parts.
It was a good experience except I got all upset with myself for not leading Drew well enough and that he fell. Normally I’d be fine but you know, it’s been a hard week.
Also, since I get overheated so easily, I gave up trying to do a second take. It’s just like an in-person show, you lead the horse that showed up and accept the performance. Tomorrow we do the Functionality test. Maybe this time we will do better on that! If not, we will learn things and know what else to work on.
Back at home we are all happy and eating dinner. Life’s good if you are one of our horses!
Lots got done here, too. Both the Hen House and the Suna Shack got latches to hold the doors open, and lots got done of the living space for Lee’s brother (no photos yet).
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What an interesting course with all sorts of neat things to do! Glad Drew was okay after his bobble (I did a faceplant in the arena dirt once in a halter class after my horse got excited as we trotted into the arena and we bumped into each other. Sometimes those things happen, right?). Despite the heat, looks like you had fun!
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Yep, that’s part of the fun, I guess!
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