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Jazzy's progress

So yesterday I hopped on Jazz for the first time in ages. I was worried cause walking her to the arena felt like walking a racehorse to the track. Sometimes she's just such a....warmblood. Didn't feel like lunging, so I strapped my helmet on extra tight, and climbed up. She was fantastic! She didn't buck once, not even kicking out. She did angry ears a couple times, but I fussed at her and she quit it. A couple of times she was doing angry ears and not trotting when I asked, and when I went "Eeehhh!" to make her put her ears up, she shook her head and started trotting, like "oh, ok, I guess I'll go". So she knows when she's doing wrong, not sure if that's good or not though, haha! Anyway, she was great for me, so I let Emma get on. She's just graduated HS and used to ride jumpers, so I felt like she was confident enough to handle it, and she's been itching to ride Jazz. She did great with her, lots of trotting, she had her turning well, which is great. She did kick out once with Emma, but I think she was getting frustrated since she hasn't been ridden in a while and that was a long hot day. Then I let Katie, my (former) roomie ride, she did great for her, but Katie didn't want to trot haha. Then Jazz was plum tuckered out, so I figured I'd let Jamie ride. She's 12 years old and completely novice. She can ride Nike around, but anybody can. She's confident though, and has the basics, so I let her ride. I walked beside, ready to grab the reins or snatch Jamie off, whichever needed to happen. But Jazz was great! I'm so proud! She's growing up on me! I need to send her for training, but we were holding off for the EHV1 to clear up some... Anyway, PICTURES! https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1843413764521.2092260.1215900… it's visible to everyone, whether you have FB or not. I might post some individual ones later haha.

rodeoratdogs Wed, 06/15/2011 - 10:20

Actually I could see those ones even though I don't had fb, somtimes I can but most times I can't. She sure looks pretty under saddle.