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Date Posted: 09:31:08 08/15/01 Wed
Author: Julia
Subject: I do tons of work.

I give each of my horses a good long grooming then take them out to ride.

Echo: I do some high jumps in stadium and cross-country, but he got bored of that so I took him for a nice long gallop on the trails to work the kinks out of him. Once he started to seem tired, I slowed to a canter and we cantered for a long time. Then I turned him aroung and starting trotting toward the barn so he would be cooled out by the time we got back there. When the barn came into sight I slowed him to a walk for the rest of the way (about 15 minutes). Then I let him go into the paddock. I'll groom him after I ride my other horses.

Mossy: I take him over high stadium jumps and cross-country jumps then I bring him into the arena and have him do some barrels. Even though he's not racing, he went fast. Really fast. Then I take him for a canter on the trails and gallop slowly for about 5 minutes until I get him to breeze. He breezes for about 5 minutes then I get him to slow down the gallop. We do that for a few minutes. I turn him around and start heading to the barn at a slow canter, wich becomes a trot after a couple of minutes. When the barn came into sight, I walked him the last 15 minutes to ake sure he was completely cooled out then I put him in the paddock while I rode my other horses.

Lily: I do some cross country and high stadium jumping then start roping a fox I see nearby. She does extremely well.
I enter the arena and practice some tight serpentines and 5 to 50 meter circles. Then I do them at a trot, a canter. Then I go out into the field and since she was doing so well, I tried a giant sepentine at a very slow gallop. It was perfect!!! Then I do a huge circle at a faster gallop. Then, I trick her a bit. I start her off on the circle at a slow gallop, and keep making the circle bigger. The bigger I made the circle, the faster she galloped. then I went right off the circle toward the trails. I was ajusting my position over her withers, and she just leaped out!! Racehorse fast!! I took her a short ways in, only for a 30 seconds then slowed her right down and turned her around. I cantered out from the trails and went to the lanes. They were very long and flat, about 9 furlongs. I lined her up at the very beggining and then, at the last second, I gave her a hard sqeeze with my legs. I had done this before, so I was holding her mane as well as I ould. She started to breeze right away. I kneaded my hand up along her mane and she went flying through the 9 furlongs. I slowed her to a canter for a little ways after the furlongs, turned her around, and started trotting back. Then I walked her for about half an hour to make sure she was completely cooled out. Then I put her in the paddock with Echo and Mossy while I rode Swift Wind.

Swift Wind: I do some high jumping, stadium and cross country then do tons of dressage. I do sepentines, circles, and work on both of our equitation at all speeds. He does perfect, then seems to get bored so I took him for a long breeze the same way I did with Lily, but I start himat a slow gallop and make him sprint the other 8 furlongs, I sat the same way, clutching his mane and positioning myself perfectly over his wide withers. He goes awfully fast. I slow him to a canter after the 9 furlongs, turn him, and get him to trot half of the way back before I mak him walk for 20 minutes back to the barn.

When I got back I took Swift Wind right inside and groomed him quikly in the crossties and then gave him a long sponge bath. Then I asked Len (the groom) to walk him until he was dry then to groom him until I was finished cleaning out his stall and putting in new shavings and 4 flakes of hay and 2 servings of oats, plus a carrot on top. I went back and got him from Len, and put him back in his stall. I went out and got Echo, groomed him quikly and bathed him, Len walked and groomed him whil I got his stall ready the same way.
Then it was Mossy's turn. And finally Lily. I checked on them all again, making sure everything was just right. It was. So I went to the tack room and did a very good job of cleaning their bridles, saddles, leand lines and halters. My ride was only here in an hour, so I decided to clean my boots while I was at it, then asked Len if he needed help with the other horses. So I cleaned out two more stalls and shines two saddles and bridles, two halters and lead lines, then I got all the dirt off the shower rack floor. By then my ride should be there in about 15 minutes, so I used Dianne's shower and got dressed in cleaned barn clothes. Then I put my horses' dirty blankets in the washer, and asked Len to hang them up when they were done. I put clean blankets on my horses, gave them each a quarter of and apple and a kiss on the nose, then I had to leave.

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