If threads had horses

[dangerousfish]

Then all of gaia would ride.

I'm a bit loopy today but today I also thought it would be cool to have a horse/riding topic seems it seems some of us ride.

Commence the horse talk. : D  

[Groovy Spleen]

WELL!

I have been riding since I was 11.
Strictly English.

I currently have 2 horses,
Winston, a 3 year old 1/2 Thoroughbred, 1/4 percheron, 1/4 morgan gelding.
I eventually plan to do eventing with him.
He's steel-grey, big, heavy, and BRAVE!
Nothing phases him. He thinks he is so tough.

and
Paris!
A 5year old Thorughbred/??
I bought her as a project, she was only halter broke.
I have yet to get on her but we're doing a ton of groundwork.
She's dapple grey, dainty, and a great little jumper.
She's a little bit flighty, and gets worked up pretty easily.


I take lessons once a week with a really great coach, and I ride pretty much 5-7 times a week, and I'm down at the barn for hours everyday.  

[dangerousfish]

Awesome!

I did western horse camp, 1 week in the summer for 2 years and then a lady my dad works with gave him the sign-up sheet for Meadowview Farm (if you want to see my at my fattest and baggy clothes check me out under "Riding Camp", I was a counselor and also young). So I rode there since I was 11 until 18 when two things happened: a)I moved an hour away to school b)and this is what really brought the dry spell, my trainer whom I love love love decided to give up riding teaching to teach karate and self-defense full time instead of part-time. She has her own place now, which is cool for her. Her riding ability is so amazing though! crying

So! I rode hunter jumper for that time and eventually moved up to 2 lessons a week, awesome. I had two lease horses who lived with non-horse people who had a barn and three horses (don't ask *facepalm*) so in exchange for cheap board I took care of the barn, 4 horses, two goats, a flock of chickens, and one crooked barn cat (car accident). It certainly polished me up and pretty much guarenteed that horses were my everything.

When I was 16 the people I boarded with bred their mare (*facepalm*) and I had a baby! His registered name is "Wahoo's Blue" 'cause they named him Blue. Please guess what color his eyes are. *facepalm* He is a really pretty black paint stock with an almost whiteface and those blue eyes. His whiteface wasn't large enough to be a paint paint but he is still a APHA with AQHA origins. His maternal grandfather, Lucks Chic Gay (TBxQH), is a successful quarter horse racer. So I got to raise a baby from day one, it was very cool and when he was 1 I bought him. Pssh, they should have just charged me the stud fee since if I hadn't been there her wouldn't even have been halter trained.

I had him until he was 3 and it just got so difficult to have time for him and being away at school. We had just started under saddle and he was a joy. I sold him really quick crying because a lady just happened to be in our barn (I moved him away from the *facepalm* to a reasonable boarder with all day turnout) and she was looking for a forever horse that had been raised exactly as Blue was, one person loving and training him so he didn't have hang-ups and fears *sniffsniff*. He's still my baby.

You can see I could talk about Blue until the cows come home. Sorry, I got excited (it's been 5 years).

Anyway. Hunter jumper, didn't show much, didn't really interest me. I rode school horses and had fun with them. I worked as a turnout girl and show groom when they needed me, a Student Helper for lesson people, day camp counselor, and I was also a Polo groom which was pretty cool and very fast-paced. I love learning new things. I'll be starting dressage lessons at my new work place next week, exciting!  

[dangerousfish]

Your horses are beautiful and your girl looks like she has a lot of promise!  

[dangerousfish]

Oh yeah, I officially start my new MW job of morning feed/turnout/grooming for the trainer on Monday. I'm stupid excited.  

[Groovy Spleen]

dangerousfish

Your horses are beautiful and your girl looks like she has a lot of promise!

Eee. thanks. whee
She is such a sweetheart.
And Winston is just a big brat.  

[dangerousfish]

Today I had my first dressage riding lesson. Of course, it wasn't so much dressage as it was fixing my 5 year rusty position but still. I was in a dressage saddle. rofl My stirrups started out a hole longer but I couldn't find my balance so up a hole they went - putting them at the same length of my own stirrups. Oh well, not like I keep short jumping stirrups (my trainer wasn't down with the short stirrups) but I was interested in some longer stirrups. She's the same height as me but has stirrups two holes longer, she says her thigh has stretched overtime. I will assume she meant her balance and stretching down and she did not actually grow her bone. Because I don't think you can do that.

It is official that it was the saddle that was throwing me off when I rode my roommate's horse, not that he is slightly green still (lack of riding before she got him). I don't know if all all-purpose saddles are the funky or if it was just her's. But I rode in the trainer's dressage saddle no problem.  

[dangerousfish]

Wow, what you're doing for your TB is pretty awesome!  

[Soi Tsuba]

I haven't ridden a horse since my mom was thrown off and broke her pelvis. We were going down a hill in the woods and a pheasant jumped at her horse in the middle of no where.


hmm, i must say i do miss horses. My cousin has my horse, along with her other ones. It's a real treat to go visit her every so often. (She lives 13 hrs away)  

[dangerousfish]

Ouch, a broken pelvis. That's pretty bad place for a break. I hope she recovered well. Glad you're able to visit your cousin's horses.  

[Zathura]

The only kind of horse I ever had was a My Little Pony sweatdrop  

[Agorphia]

I'm not big on horses, but I have a friend who draws horses very well but can only draw them facing to the left. xDDD  

[Testicular Diabeetus]

I had a horse. =( The fiancée got rid of her though because she reared and made me fly off of a fence.
I busted my lip pretty bad.
Blood everywhere.

i miss her to death, hopefully we can get another horse soon.