Day 12 Tuesday January 14th, 2014
We worked on
the changes a lot today. They started out rough but got better, Lendon gave me
a super piece of information; keeping the old bend through the change instead
of pulling his head to the new bend helps keep him straighter and more
balanced, who would have thought! Half halts were better but corners, not so
much. We did pretty decent for a Tuesday!
Our lecture was with Sue Stickle, she’s a professional photographer and shoots many top events like the CDIs at Global and Olympics. Her main topic was about copyrights and how they work.
Our lecture was with Sue Stickle, she’s a professional photographer and shoots many top events like the CDIs at Global and Olympics. Her main topic was about copyrights and how they work.
Fun facts: She began professionally in 1995.
Her least favorite test to shoot is the Second level tests and if your Uncle
John takes a picture on your camera it is his copyright, same with you using
your sisters camera.
In the evening we went to ShowChic for a talk with Olympian Carol Lavell who told us about her journey to the Olympics on a horse that no one thought would go Grand Prix.
In the evening we went to ShowChic for a talk with Olympian Carol Lavell who told us about her journey to the Olympics on a horse that no one thought would go Grand Prix.
Day 13 Wednesday
January 15th 2014
Display felt
all over the place in our lesson today, being straight was definitely not on
his to do list today! He was hard to keep consistent and giving, he was
anticipating the changes so we skipped them for today. We did a lot of trot
work, mixing lateral and lengthening together sort of like how they are in the
tests.
In the morning one of the other girls and myself went to Chris Hickey’s farm on the other side of Wellington to watch Morten Thompsen teach. He uses a lot of in-hand work to teach half steps and to improve the expression in the trot, his training is very straight forward and clear. His methods are really cool and it gave me a little inspiration to start doing more in-hand work with my horse!
Our scheduled lesson got cancelled so we had a brief one with Lendon on the aids for all of the dressage movements.
In the morning one of the other girls and myself went to Chris Hickey’s farm on the other side of Wellington to watch Morten Thompsen teach. He uses a lot of in-hand work to teach half steps and to improve the expression in the trot, his training is very straight forward and clear. His methods are really cool and it gave me a little inspiration to start doing more in-hand work with my horse!
Our scheduled lesson got cancelled so we had a brief one with Lendon on the aids for all of the dressage movements.
Day 14 Thursday January
16th 2014
Super ride
today! I worked on keeping my hands really steady and adjusting him from my
fingers and wrists so that everything was a bit quieter. We did some awesome lateral
work than moved onto a little bit of pirouette work that’s in Fourth level test
2. I’m starting to feel like I can ride and keep him together a bit more, it’s
really exciting!
We were invited to go to Tuny Page’s GORGEOUS Still Point farm to watch Nicholas Fyff and other top riders train. Nicholas is such a lovely rider, he showed us his PRE Stallion Fiero HGF bred by Kim Boyer, owner of Hampton Green Farm and a brentina cup horse he has in for training for resale.
All of us WITees do get out of the barn and have fun sometimes: Lendon sponsored a few teams to participate in the 2nd annual Vinceremos Therapudic riding “Buck Off” competition.
Teams of 4 ride a mechanical bull for 15 seconds in hopes to score as many style points as they can. We all had a blast and of course did well!
We were invited to go to Tuny Page’s GORGEOUS Still Point farm to watch Nicholas Fyff and other top riders train. Nicholas is such a lovely rider, he showed us his PRE Stallion Fiero HGF bred by Kim Boyer, owner of Hampton Green Farm and a brentina cup horse he has in for training for resale.
All of us WITees do get out of the barn and have fun sometimes: Lendon sponsored a few teams to participate in the 2nd annual Vinceremos Therapudic riding “Buck Off” competition.
Teams of 4 ride a mechanical bull for 15 seconds in hopes to score as many style points as they can. We all had a blast and of course did well!
Day 15 Friday January
17th, 2014
Today we got the amazing opportunity
to visit Olympian Tina Konyot’s farm. She showed us her Olympic mount Collecto,
an upcoming Grand Prix horse Wyoming and her newly imported young horse
Diamond. Her background is very interesting, her father Alex Konyot was a phenomenal
animal trainer and worked for the Ringling Brothers Circus.
Today was a hack day so I took Display out to the front field and just did some walking and trotting to get him moving.
Day 16 Saturday January 18th, 2014
Today was a hack day so I took Display out to the front field and just did some walking and trotting to get him moving.
Day 16 Saturday January 18th, 2014
Today was our
first WIT schooling show, I rode Display in a 4-2 test. Even though I showed
him Third level over the Summer this felt like a huge jump. It’s pretty funny,
once Display is braided he totally goes into show mode and turns into this
really awesome horse J
The test went pretty well, I don’t think I rode it as well as I could have. The first pirouette and change were good, second pirouette we got stuck in so we went off course to try it again, the trot work was decent but have to practice the extensions and mediums so that we can be bolder in the show ring.
The test went pretty well, I don’t think I rode it as well as I could have. The first pirouette and change were good, second pirouette we got stuck in so we went off course to try it again, the trot work was decent but have to practice the extensions and mediums so that we can be bolder in the show ring.
One of the
WIT girls gave her lecture on trail riding and she did a super job! Each week
one of us has to give a 20ish minute lecture on a subject of our choice.
Luckily I don’t have to do mine in till March!
I will have another post ready by tomorrow night, by then I should be caught up!
Hopefully the next one will have pictures too!
I hope everyone is staying warm, we started out at 45* but made it up to 70* today.
Hopefully the next one will have pictures too!
I hope everyone is staying warm, we started out at 45* but made it up to 70* today.
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