| Subject: riding Candy Apple, Fiery Miss & Pride's Breeze |
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Dana
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Date Posted: 17:19:21 09/06/02 Fri
I quickly walked to the tack room and grabbed some english tack & some grooming tools.Today I was going to ride Fiery Miss.Missy is a 2 y/o, 16.3 hand, bay Holsteiner filly.Fiery Miss is by a TB racehorse named The Spirit of Fire & is out of my prized jumper mare, Miss Congeniality.I walked back to Missy's stall & set all of her stuff down.I grabbed a curry comb & started brushing her.After I had brushed her, I tacked her up & then led her to the indoor riding arena.Alex was already there.I waved hi to Alex & led Missy over to the mounting block.She stood still next to the mounting block, having been trained to.Alex held the reins for me as I got on, and then Let Missy go.Fiery Miss had bolted once when I was mounting her, right when I was only half way on her.Until I knew she wouldn't bolt, I had someone hold her reins while I got on her.Fiery Miss gave a buck, then took off at a canter.Being used to this, I had a tight grip on the reins & slowed her back down to a walk.Missy still tried to trot, but I had her walking.One thing I had learned about young or green horses was that you always, always! paid attention to them when you are riding them.Don't pay attention and your likely to end up in the arena dirt.I had learned that lesson when I was still a teenager.sponging my hands on the reins and sitting very far back plus keeping a tight grip on the reins was all I could do to keep Fiery Miss from bolting.luckily, Missy was a nice horse & finally relaxed, & topped pulling against the reins.I walked Missy for a few laps in each direction, before halting her.Missy wouldn't halt when I shifted my weight back, I didn't expect her to, so I pulled back on the reins.Fiery Miss halted.I squeezed her with my leg and she walked on again.I did that simple exercise a few more times before walking her in a circle in each direction.Then I worked on some leg yields with her before asking the 2 y/o filly to trot.Missy quickly made the transition from walk to trot.I slowed her down a bit, and started posting.The first time I had tried posting on Missy, she spooked.Now, with more training, she was good about it.I made a large cirle with Missy at a trot and then made a half-circle and changed her direction.I trotted her some more in that direction and then slowed down my posting, so the Holsteiner filly would slow down her trot.Missy did just that.I then did a sitting trot with her.She was rather good about the sitting trot.I slowed her down to a walk, & walked her a few laps before dismounting.Then I ld Missy to her stall & untacked her.After I had untacked Missy, I put on her halter, gave her a carrot & led her down to the fillies pasture to turn her out.Missy took off the minute I un-clipped the lead rope from her halter.She galloped off towards a Arabian filly named Pride's Breeze.near-by was a Appaloosa filly named Candy Apple & a 4 y/o mare named Calypso's Song.I decided to work with Candy Apple next.I took her out of the pasture & led her up to the barn.After tacking her up with western tack, I led her to the outdoor arena.the 2 y/o, palomino spotted, 15.2 hand Appaloosa filly was very excited about being ridden outside.Candy Apple stood still as I clipped a lunge line to her bridle.After I had lunged her, I mounted the 2 y/o Appaloosa.Candy Apple had very good ground manners & stood still as I mounted her.Candy Apple was in definite western mode today.Candy Apple had 2 kinds of modes, hunter/jumper or western.The 2 y/o filly was moving nicely, with her head & neck down.I walked the Appaloosa filly for a while before asking her to jog.Candy picked up a nice jog, that was well paced, & very smooth and slow.I sat easily to her jog.then I asked her to trot.She picked up the faster gait, and made a circle when I directed her to.Then I changed direction with her & did a few jog-walk-jog transitions with her.Then I halted her in the middle of the arena and did a reinback with her.I walked her a bit more before halting the young filly and dismounting.Then I untacked her & turned her out in the pasture.Then I got Pride's Breeze from the pasture and tacked up her english.I mounted her and asked her 2 walk.the bay, 2 y/o Arabian moved off my leg, and didn't try to pull anything.I knew that she would start bucking very soon, because thatwas the point the she usually started bucking.Sure enough, Pride bucked just then.She had her little bucking fit, and then stopped bucking and walked on nicely.I did the same things iwth her that Ihad done with the first 2 fillies I had ridden, I walked & trotted her.I also did some circles @ both gaits & did some leg yields.When I was done, I halted the bay 2 y/o Arabian and dismounted.Then I untacked her & turned her out in the pasture with her buddies after giving her a peppermint for being such a good girl today when I rode her.Then I walked over to Corrado's paddock.I went in and clipped a lead rope to his halter.Then, I noticed his hoof.Corrado had thrown a shoe! I wouldn't be able to work him until I put a new shoe on him.I led the bay colt up to the barn & headed off to get my farrier tools...
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