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Jun. 12th, 2005 12:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickI'm sunburned. This is because I spent the entire day (temp and humidity over 80) outside. There were intermittant downpours breaking up the heat and upping the humidity to unbearable levels. I got rained on, solidly, twice.
The 4-H roundup thing was today. This is the first of three horse show things for which I've been coaching Cass and Chelsea. They got a first (against nine other people!) in Walk-Trot pleasure. They got a fifth in Walk-Trot equitation. Cass attempted the trail class and, while she did not place, she BACKED THE L PATTERN and DID THE 360 ON THE FOREHAND, both skills that she did correctly. (Her 360 was to the left and they wanted one to the right but it was a complicated pattern and she's eight. I'm not complaining at all.)
So, y'know, that went well, mostly, at least until Cass fell off the pony in poles. *sigh* Nobody was hurt, though, so we proceeded onward and when the thing was over, we went back home, picked up Sphinx and the IRH and went to Sylvan Glen, a local open gaming venue.
At Sylvan Glen, I spent twenty bucks taking the IRH in classes. We did poles, barrels, flag race, and four corner stake, none of which we placed in and ALL of which we correctly completed the pattern in. The IRH is doing quite well with the whole going-to-horse-shows thing and we actually loped part of the run home in the patterns without anything bad happening, so yay! (Up to this point, we've been just walking and trotting. I've never actually asked the IRH to lope for me before this, though she had, once or twice, following another horse, without anything untoward happening. I have absolutely no idea how much speed she's actually got but I assure you that we're nowhere near the top of her abilities just yet.) It was a lot of fun for twenty bucks and there was a thunderstorm (with thunder) and umbrellas and rain slickers and all kinds of excitement for the horse. (At horse shows, when it thunderstorms, you hunker down out of the weather and wait for the rain to pass. Horse people are pretty hardy souls.) She weathered all of that nicely. I'm going to have to stop calling her the Insane Red Horse if this keeps up...
There is apparently another Sylvan Glen thing in July. I'm thinking I'd like to go to that. It's a lot of entertainment value for the money.
The 4-H roundup thing was today. This is the first of three horse show things for which I've been coaching Cass and Chelsea. They got a first (against nine other people!) in Walk-Trot pleasure. They got a fifth in Walk-Trot equitation. Cass attempted the trail class and, while she did not place, she BACKED THE L PATTERN and DID THE 360 ON THE FOREHAND, both skills that she did correctly. (Her 360 was to the left and they wanted one to the right but it was a complicated pattern and she's eight. I'm not complaining at all.)
So, y'know, that went well, mostly, at least until Cass fell off the pony in poles. *sigh* Nobody was hurt, though, so we proceeded onward and when the thing was over, we went back home, picked up Sphinx and the IRH and went to Sylvan Glen, a local open gaming venue.
At Sylvan Glen, I spent twenty bucks taking the IRH in classes. We did poles, barrels, flag race, and four corner stake, none of which we placed in and ALL of which we correctly completed the pattern in. The IRH is doing quite well with the whole going-to-horse-shows thing and we actually loped part of the run home in the patterns without anything bad happening, so yay! (Up to this point, we've been just walking and trotting. I've never actually asked the IRH to lope for me before this, though she had, once or twice, following another horse, without anything untoward happening. I have absolutely no idea how much speed she's actually got but I assure you that we're nowhere near the top of her abilities just yet.) It was a lot of fun for twenty bucks and there was a thunderstorm (with thunder) and umbrellas and rain slickers and all kinds of excitement for the horse. (At horse shows, when it thunderstorms, you hunker down out of the weather and wait for the rain to pass. Horse people are pretty hardy souls.) She weathered all of that nicely. I'm going to have to stop calling her the Insane Red Horse if this keeps up...
There is apparently another Sylvan Glen thing in July. I'm thinking I'd like to go to that. It's a lot of entertainment value for the money.
