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Have you ever noticed how much work goes into being “a natural” at something?

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10 classes entered, top 5 in 9 of them. Would have been 10 for 10 if she could just eat a saltine cracker a little a lot quicker.

Dressage Practice Arena

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You don’t limit your practice to live horses. You’ll notice the toy horse isn’t just a toy horse, but a toy horse that looks like Skip. Because practicing with a bay toy horse just wouldn’t be the same.

It sounds like the set up for a joke. So this guy tries to take his horse into a public restroom…

I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that the rider may not have been fit to be driving either a vehicle, or a horse!

The judge placed her 4th out of 4. The other riders must have been fantastic because I’m not seeing much here that explains that kind of placing.

If a picture is worth 1000 words, what is 18 pictures (with captions) in an embedded slide show worth? (The slide show runs quickly, and I can’t slow it down. You might want to hit pause immediately and manually click your way through.)

The Ridemaster Pro simulates a real 15.2hh medium build horse. It allows the rider to ride to the screen in real-time. The horse is perfectly schooled and capable of doing advanced movements such as medium trot, medium canter, lateral work and rein back. The neck is moveable and the leg aids are detected by ‘on the girth’ and ‘behind the girth’ sensors. All movements are mathematically correct

And you’ll never need to muck it’s stall!

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I’d make some snarky comment about the parent spending $10,000 a year on his pre-teens hockey career, but since I have a $4000 saddle that was custom made in England being delivered today, I probably should just stay quiet.
Although in my defense, this saddle will work as both a hunter and dressage saddle, and will also last her the rest of her life so long as she doesn’t exceed 5′6″. If she does grow that much, the resale value on the saddle will be full value for the next several years at least, and maybe even better since it will be available immediately and the lead time typically runs 45-90 days.

BTW, $4000 is not particularly expensive for a saddle. Delaney has been showing me ads for $8000 saddles that are supposed to make me feel good about this one! In theory I’m saving money by not needing to buy her seperate hunter and dressage saddles. At least that is what she keeps telling me.

I should also note that about $1000 of the saddle funds came directly from Delaney. she has been saving Christmas, birthday, and horseshue proceeds for two years to help pay for her new saddle. Grandpa also pitched in to help. If you’d like to help feel free to buy a horseshue, or 50 horseshues

Finally, the long awaited 4H District post. There were some issues with scoring and we just got the trail results this week. This trail run was good enough for 3rd place. Sorry about the low angle, I had to leave to coach a baseball game and Michelle apparently can’t see over the fence.

Skip and Delaney also took 6th place is GAYP. It was about 5000 degrees out that day and they decided to scratch Equitation and take a break before trail.

Last week Delaney jumped at a small show at the farm where we board. It went so well she decided she wanted to jump an open hunter show we were attending today. Michelle was so nervous she couldn’t watch. She didn’t see it until she watched the video when we got home. I’d say this is not too bad for a horse that just 4 weeks ago we were advised to sell because he would never be up to what Delaney wants to accomplish. It’s amazing what good nutrition and good farrier care will do for a horse. More on that in a separate post though.

The show was double judged, and this video is from the Novice Horse Over Fences Equitation class. She got 1st place from one judge and 2nd place from the other. She also got Grand Champion from one judge, and Reserve Champion from another.