Let’s Bring You Up To Date! March 31, 2010

Hey guys! Sorry about my absence. I’ve had a ton going on! I’m going to try to give you a quick update, and then come back eventually to share some pictures.

Fancy and I are doing amazing! At our February show, we got fourth in our age group equitation flat (we used it as a warm-up), won our long stirrup eq flat, got seconds in all of our over fences and hunter under saddle. We ended up long stirrup reserve champions. (: It was our first show cantering courses and our first time doing an equitation course. I was really happy with her! Our March show was big competition because not only was it CEC, but it was SCHJA “C” rated! We showed in long stirrup as usual, against 9 riders all on big horses! We got second place in our first class of the day, eq flat. Then we won our warm-up over fences and won our eq over fences! I was so excited! Our first hunter over fences was a disaster because she tripped down a line and almost had to refuse the second jump, so we didn’t place. But we got third in our second trip! We didn’t pin in hunter under saddle because obviously big horses are prettier movers. But we did win equitation champion! I was ecstatic! Right now, we’re leading the equitation division in points by 20 points, and are in third place for hunters. Woo!

Logan is doing really well. We went to a local show a couple weekends ago just to get him out and about, and their trainer absolutely adores him (she’s asked to buy him twice!) so I was just like what the hay and showed him in the open equitation. We ended up doing pretty well. (:  He was being a jerk in our warm ups, bucking and all that nonsense. But then we went in for our flat and he was an angel. We got fourth place out of eleven I think. He was a good boy. Then in our over fences, I thought I blew it because during our last rollback, he got excited and didn’t really feel like turning, so he had to swing his bum around and it looked kind of messy. But we placed third, so I was really happy about that. My mom said a bunch of people were saying he’s a pretty mover and I rode him really well, and at the end of my round the judge said “nice trip”. (:

I am doing really well too. My old trainer called the other day and asked me to work for her exercising her smaller ponies. I can’t wait to start! School is going pretty well, and I’m LOVING spring break!

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