I’m freaking tired. 14-16 hours at the Horse Center every day, and I’m not the one riding a horse! It’s been an interesting first time at the 4H State Horse Show. Delaney is the state junior Hippology Champion, and when you add in her 4th place in horse bowl and 9th in horse judging, she [...]
Also taggedIn conjunction with moving Horseshues to a new server I did a redesign. It’s not a major redesign, random header images replacing the logo is the biggest visible difference. The site was on a 4 year old WordPress template that I had hacked up pretty bad. Now it’s on a snazzy new template that will [...]
Also taggedYou don’t limit your practice to real horses. You’ll notice the toy horse is not just a toy horse, but a toy horse that looks like Skip. Practicing with a bay toy horse just wouldn’t be the same.
Also tagged horsesWe were getting that advice 8 weeks ago. Although this may look great to us laymen, Delaney tells me that her hands are not far enough up Skip’s neck. I guess we know now why the ribbons were pink and white today, and not blue
Also tagged horsesI’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 [...]
Also tagged horses4:30 AM – Get up 5:00 AM – leave for farm 5:30 AM – arrive at farm 6:00 AM – leave farm with horse in tow 6:45 AM – arrive at 4H District Horse Show 10:00 AM – leave horse show (we dropped my car there this evening) 10:15 AM – arrive home 10:30 AM [...]
Also taggedDelaney kicking ass in the show jumping ring. And… well, there is no and. We got up at 5:30 for the horse show and got home around 4 PM.
Also tagged horsesFor my horsey minded readers…two videos from today’s dressage show are up at Horseshues. Training Test 1 Intro Test B
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