Snapshot Thursday!

Testing my phone blogging skills.... Been amazingly insanely ridiculously busy with work, my summer class, getting ready for a great memorial day weekend (more on that later), and kids that I just now got a chance to ride. Cash was awesome, I think things are clicking, with the exception of bending--kinda feeling like driving a boat right now haha.  So I'll leave you with a quick pic--it rained yesterday and I was being lazy, but still wanted to ride. I give up keeping this horse clean! ...

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Moments of Brilliance!

My word, this horse guys!! Every now and then, you'll have those breakthrough moments while riding your horse, where you've been struggling with something, and just keep hitting the wall, but then, for a split moment, that wall is conquered and you hit that point of achievement that you were after.  Sometimes it's a feeling that you weren't expecting to find!  I had one of those moments today with Cash.  Forward is not his thing, at all.  He wants to take his energy up, up up up.  He's an OTTB, what can you say.  So trying to refocus and redirect that energy forward is difficult, and he fights it big time.  We were getting there, and then he lost it, and then I kept asking, gently asking, and then he decided to really take it and give me his back and hind...

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Some days....

People are ridiculous. Just saying. Can NOT wait to get to the barn this afternoon. ...

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Cash meets water obstacle

No thanks to all the rain (and hail!) we've gotten in the past few days the arena is quite muddy and unrideable.  So, me, being brave (or just plain crazy), decided to tack up my hasn't-been-worked-in-three-days OTTB and without lunging, go for a ride down the road. Should be fine, right??? Being ambitious I thought "it would be cool to ride all the way to the lake" and so we set off.... we made it almost a half-mile when Cash stopped dead in his tracks and went "I'm NOT at home anymore..." He then decided he was headed home, and headed home now.  Hello racehorse mode. Yeah, I had no control. On a fresh horse, out on a dirt road...

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Holy Badminton, Batman!

Michael Jung, Jonathan Paget, William Fox-Pitt and Andrew Nicholson. That my friends is the current top four at Badminton. 'Scuse my french but: Bad-ass. The difference between 1st and 4th is currently 4.2 penatly points apart.  There are no rails in hand and it's anybody's game going into Show Jumping at Badminton tomorrow.  The afternoon XC session this afternoon was just thriller.  Tomorrow is going to be pure awesomeness and I am going to be glued to the live blog.  Talk about exciting!!! I am so going to have a horsey hangover after tomorrow... Rolex, Kentucky Derby, Badminton. Oh ye...

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Retail Therapy

It all started with the boots, oh the lovely, heavenly, soft as butter boots... I loves them so much. No, not Dubarrys, I wish Then I picked up a new halter and lead rope using a gift card to a local tack store. (and some new leather cleaner--more on that later!). Next came a nice like-new horse size (as opposed to my current inventory of Cob!) running martingale found on ebay.  Perfect. And then, I got to go to Dover Saddlery down in Parker, Colorado. Yes! I picked up a new helmet (Charles Owen Pro II Skull Cap mind you--yes, I splurged) and a new dressage bridle that ended up ringing in at $10 off.  Works for me!  However,...

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