First Show of the Year

Well if it doesn’t get rained out that is. Saturday is our first show of the year so we headed over to the arena to practice last night. I want Chase to use Sis for w/t instead of Abby (he doesn’t have a chance w/Abby) so I wanted him to practice on her. With him being gone and Ty being sick he hasn’t been on Abby much either so I knew she was going to need ridden before he “ran” her barrels and poles on Sat.

It was a beautiful night. DH’s back was still bothering him so he watched Ty and I took Lu. When we got there I did some LFR w/Abby and then put Chase on and he started off w/his flexing and his ORS. After some ORS at the w/t I had him do the passenger lesson at the trot. Chase really needs to work on his balance so doing the passenger lesson is just as good for him as it is for Abby.

By this time I’d gotten Lu saddled up and into the ring to do some LFR. OMG was she full of P & V! She was trying to crow hop & buck and fart. She was really feeling good until we hit a few good hard turns and then she decided to mellow out. I bridled her up and jumped on.

I told Chase go to ahead and do some ORS at the lope and after about 5 min. of that I let him do the passenger lesson at the lope. Abby hates that. She’s becoming so slow at the lope that it isn’t even funny. She almost goes up more then she goes forward. When she finally stopped trying to be close to Sis or Lu I let him stop her and rest her. By now I was trying to do the passenger lesson w/Lu at the trot but she decided she wanted to lope instead.

Since loping is one of Lu’s issues I decided to let her lope until she was tired enough to trot. To my surprise she went for quite a while. Chase and MIL swapped horses (what a sight) and Chase practiced his w/t with Sis. We worked on passing and only using one hand on the reins.

Lucy still didn’t want to trot so we loped some more. Chase and MIL finished up and I worked on a few more things with Lu & then got off and tied her up. While she was cooling out I jumped on Abby and loped her around a bit. She’s changing so much and it is a nice change. She’s going to be a really nice pony.

Tomorrow MIL will be doing w/t and wp with Sis. Chase will be doing w/t with Sis and poles and barrels w/Abby. I won’t be showing. Lu isn’t ready and I’m afraid if I do then I will want her to do things that I haven’t asked her to do yet which isn’t fair to her.