We had a show this weekend, everything went great. So many wonderful horses and riders, they all seemed to have a good time. No body came off, had several stops on stadium and cross country but nothing too bad.
My students did so well, they have all banded together to create a club of sorts. I am so proud of them for including everyone. One of my girls has just started eventing, she comes from a hunter jumper background. We don't have to worry about the jumping, those two are jumping fools. The dressage on the other hand needs lots and lots of work. Pony needs to be rounder and more forward, Claire needs to sit her tushy into the saddle and lengthen her stirrups. For only having been in the dressage arena 3 times ever, she did a GREAT job this weekend.
Anna did a wonderful dressage test, only had a small blip on her second circle. She momentarily forgot where she was going, but corrected it withing a couple of strides. Her overall test was decent, there are still things we need to work on but that is ok, she did a great job. She had a slight meltdown in stadium warmup, I set the vertical up to 2'3" but she refused to jump it. It was no smaller than what she was doing in our lesson on Monday. I told her that if she didn't jump that she wasn't going to be allowed to jump every again.
Thankfully she stepped up and got the job done in stadium. Apache was a snotty pony, he grabbed the bit a couple of times and took off towards the gate. Anna was so good, even though she could have given up she was determined and rode through it. She took the scenic route to a couple of the jumps, but didn't miss any. She came out and we both just started laughing, relieved and happy that she made it. I think that it might be time to put a slightly stronger bit for jumping.
Megan had a wonderful dressage test, forward but slightly round. It was a really good test, her and Domino are becoming such great partners. We need to work on Megans position and Domino getting lighter and more onto her haunches. That will all take time and practice.
Stadium was another matter, it seems that she forgot where she was going and missed jump 6. D stopped at fence 7 but Megan got her turned back to it very quickly. I am very proud of her for being so assertive with D, sometimes she doesn't stay on top of asking and requesting the mare to work. Domino is basically a lazy girl, got good brakes.
Lily was wonderful for her first time doing the pre-intro test all by herself. Scored a 60 something, next time she is going to trot the test. Her momma told me that Lily was thinking about trotting the test this time, thank goodness she decided not too. I don't think that I could have handled that, we decided that next show was soon enough.
I have been so busy with school, classes are going fairly well. I am sort of scared that I am not doing a good enough job. I am such a perfectionist, but with the barn and lessons it is really hard to get everything done. I guess I don't manage my time well enough, I let things like emails and facebook get in the way. I have 2 assignments due Tues that I haven't started but I can't seem to get started. Plus I have a short research paper and a test for my anth of food class. So many things due this week, and I don't want to even do any of it.
I will get my act together and have everything done, hopefully it will be good work and not something that reads a slipshod and thrown together.
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