Break Through!

Before I write about Riley and I's break through, I'd like to write a little about the horses that I've been riding.


Sundancer or Dancer for short- He is a 7 year old paint gelding, that was pretty much left in a Field as a stallion with no real potential as a stud, waisting away his younger years, which really piss me off but I won't get into that. His current owners a Mom and a daughter are perfect for him, they gelded him right away and put him in training with my trainer to do english sports. He is broke, but doesn't know shit. I've been riding him for the past couple of days, working on bending and accepting the bit, boy is this horse stiff! This horse has this like quirk about him, when he transitions to a trot from a walk he sometimes kind of does this little hop, like a jump start, its really amusing. He's going to make his owner a lovely english horse after he gets over his lazy-ness, and when he gets more supple.


Skylar- Which is really weird that he's named that cause my old horse was called that. He is a 3 year old Thoroughbred/Draft/Quarter horse mix. He have the most fluid trot, it's to die for. He's a dressage prospect which I think he's going to rock at. He is green broke and very skittish on the ground. But we're slowly working on it. He has the most comfortable trot, you could sit any speed without bouncy at all. And he has an extension to die for. But he kinda sucks at steering and staying at the trot, and is deathly afraid of our arena door, but like I said hes a greenie and we're working on it. Oh and he wants to be EVERY ONES friend, its really cute. My trainer wants to get a quick sale on him, which will be sad but hopefully the buyer will keep him at the barn so I can watch him progress into a wonderful dressage horse I know he'll be.


And I really want to write about Clue. I don't get to ride him as much anymore now that he has a new rider. I really miss that horse, I go green with envy when they talk about how good/fun he is. We have a special bond, he taught be a shit load, and we worked our asses off together. But I guess its time to accept that he needs to give what he gave to me, a special bond and the love and joy of showing to someone else. And I will be keeping a hawks eye on her when she rides him, ha ha cause my Trainer and I know his buttons but she doesn't yet. We shall see how they do this summer when we start showing again!


Now time for the most important horse! Mr. Riley Pants, what can I say about you?? well Lyndsy told me that she wants to take him to an all color breed show (I forgot the name of it) in March along with a couple others that we have, so she wants to do a full body clip on him in the next week or so. But the thing is he's never been clipped in his life. So I thought it'd be a good idea to get him used to the shavers, my trainer has mini cordless shavers which are amazing, so I started working on trying to clip his nose in the isle, which he didn't want any part in, he was horribly bad about it, just tossing his head and trying to walk away. So I took him in to the arena for more space. He doesn't have an issue with the shavers being on him, it's just when I try to actually cut anything, which I think is tickling him more then actually scaring him, I shaved the top of his lip and nose, but he would toss his head when I tried to get underneath. We left it at that, I didn't want to get him to stressed about it. We shall try it again tomorrow.

I tacked him up and lunged him for a few laps then got on. The last couple of rides have been pretty bad, he has this major issue of being very chargy at the trot and dropping his shoulder and not offering to pick it up at all. And frankly I can sit a very bouncy trot, but I can't sit his bouncy trot for shit. And he makes me feel horrible to be bouncing all over his back. And he started doing this thing were whenever I put any pressure on the reins he would just stop, which isn't what I want, and I couldn't keep him going for the life of me. But today I got on him and as first he was chargy and dropping his shoulders, avoiding the bit. But after a couple half circles he started lifting up, accepting the bit, actually slowing down. I could actually sit his trot for once! I was thrilled, and he didn't stop at all when I put pressure on the bit. I ended it at the that, and got off. I gave him a big hug. Tomorrow he's going to be getting adjusted by our chiro cause I'm sure he would benefit from it a lot.