Lexy's Lesson

Lexy came out to make up her Monday lesson today. We had gotten rained out. She has been working very hard with Intuition, but today Intuition had a small cut on her ankle and wasn't 100%. So we decided to work on rebuilding some of Lexy's confidence in herself.

Something that happens when you are riding very green horses is a questioning of your own ability. Horses have to learn their jobs, and make a lot of mistakes during the learning process. It is very easy for us to blame ourselves for their mistakes. Lexy had started to wonder if she really was a good rider. Although, we all have our room for improvement Lexy has done a fantastic job of riding a very heavy on her forehand mare.

Today Lexy rode Pickles. My plan was to work on trusting him to "just do his job". This is an opportunity for Lexy to work on staying with him. Things were going so well that I kept inching the oxer a bit higher. I would like to see some improvements to her equitation, but that wasn't our focus for today. Enjoy the picture and video.

The oxer is 3foot with a 2'3" spread and she's jumping downhill making this a drop fence to boot.

Travels, and moves

I have been busy the last couple of weeks, so haven't taken the time to post. We all went to the Sea Island Show a few weeks back. Kaijsa got Em out for some jumpers and did quite well, Gia and Chipper shared Riley for some more first place finishes, Lexy took Surrey for her first outing and Karin got Sebastian out for some mileage. We did have some trailer loading issues with one of the horses, and had to go pick up a larger trailer which meant a very late night Friday. Kaijsa, Lexy, and I bedded down on some shavings bags for the night in a stall. Cindy sent me some great pics of us all enjoying the fajitas that Thomas cooked on the grill, but I seem to have "misplaced" them in my inbox.

Gia was on spring break last week, so Kellie, Gia, Kenzie, Nicole, Diane, and Julia all went to Columbia to go to the zoo, and then to my favorite tack shop in Camden. It was nice to take K to the zoo we haven't been since we moved from St. Louis.

Then last Friday Gia, Chipper and I went to school Cross Country at Huspa Plantation near Beaufort. We had a great tailgating afternoon. It seems Cindy didn't manage to catch any decent pics of Chipper, but here are one or two of Gia on Pickles.

And our final news...Riley (and likely Surrey) will be moving to Whistle Stop Stables on May 1. We are looking forward to being reunited with the Friedman's, and our new farm owner Tara Osment.

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