Thursday, May 27, 2010
Weeks 11 and 12
2 weeks left to go!! Oh boy! We are ready so bring it on!! LOL! Easy is so great we are progressing in training every day!
Our latest accomplishment is High Plain Paint Horse Open Breeding show at the Ranch in Loveland last Sunday (23rd). Showmanship, Trail, Western Pleasure, Western Horsemanship and gymkhana events! Easy acted as if he'd "been there, done that"! Nothing rattled him all day. We even received High-Point champion novice and Overall High-Point for the show!!!!
EMM Schedule
June 10th (Thursday)
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Mustangs Check-In at BW Pickett arena stalls Fort Collins, Colorado
5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
MANDATORY Trainers Meeting and "draft" in arena. *Dinner provided*
Trainers will be placed on teams by the "Draft" held after trainer check in. Ken and Al will flip a coin to decide who gets first pick. Then trainers will enter the arena in hip # order. Trainers will enter the arena on foot and give a 30 sec. personal bio then will mount and perform a 90 sec. freestyle routine. (No props - only "tools" or items that are used or typically carried on a saddle.)
June 11th (Friday)
7:30 AM - Noon
Coaches Workout - Teams alternate. One team works on Reining from 7:30-9:30 in the competition arena, while the other team works on trail obstacles in the practice arena. Then the teams switch.
1:00 PM
Individual Competition in Reining and Trail Courses
7:00 PM
Westernaires Performance, Fan Favorite Smack down
and "Extreme Team Competition"
June 12th (Saturday)
7:30 AM
Coaches Workout - Teams alternate. First team practices cow work from 7:30-9:30 then second team from 10:00-Noon. Outside practice arena open and available all day.
1:00 PM
Individual Competition in Cow work
7:00 PM
Top 10 (Individual) Finals Performance and Team Finals
(Top 6 from each team)
June 13th (Sunday)
8. All events will take place at the BW Pickett Arena at the CSU facility.
The address: 701 South Overland Trail, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523.
Friday, May 14, 2010
weeks 9 and 10
Time has really flown by! Easy and I have been progressing daily! Riding everyday and practicing for the competition.
Sunday May 9th we went to Mt.Margrett with my friend Christy and about 8 others. We mostly trotted and cantered this 4 hour ride! Went thru water, mud, hikers and loose dogs the size of a big bear! All but the later were okay for Easy, i decided to get off and walk him past the big scary barking dog! Easy may be the perfect horse for endurance--he loved moving out the whole ride and didn't even break a sweat! Not bad for his 31st time under saddle!!
Thursday May 13 my farrier Rick Binger came out to trim the horses--I brought Easy back to my place for this. Afterwords I rode Easy and Mike rode Beauty out at "marys place" for a nice 2 hour trail ride.
It was a beautiful ride with rolling hills to climb, deer and antellope, water crossings, and zig zagging through trees and brush. Easy loves this stuff and is all go still!
Today is Friday the 14th and we rode at Amy LeSatz Bridle Bit training and tack llc..
It was a group lesson with 6 other riders and fresh cattle that were just picked up yesterday!!
Easy and I worked the gates and went out to round up the cows to the arena, then in groups of three we had to coordinate working a small group of cattle through obstacles in the arena! It was really fun!
Sorry no new pics or video=( Maybe I can get some this weekend?
Sunday May 9th we went to Mt.Margrett with my friend Christy and about 8 others. We mostly trotted and cantered this 4 hour ride! Went thru water, mud, hikers and loose dogs the size of a big bear! All but the later were okay for Easy, i decided to get off and walk him past the big scary barking dog! Easy may be the perfect horse for endurance--he loved moving out the whole ride and didn't even break a sweat! Not bad for his 31st time under saddle!!
Thursday May 13 my farrier Rick Binger came out to trim the horses--I brought Easy back to my place for this. Afterwords I rode Easy and Mike rode Beauty out at "marys place" for a nice 2 hour trail ride.
It was a beautiful ride with rolling hills to climb, deer and antellope, water crossings, and zig zagging through trees and brush. Easy loves this stuff and is all go still!
Today is Friday the 14th and we rode at Amy LeSatz Bridle Bit training and tack llc..
It was a group lesson with 6 other riders and fresh cattle that were just picked up yesterday!!
Easy and I worked the gates and went out to round up the cows to the arena, then in groups of three we had to coordinate working a small group of cattle through obstacles in the arena! It was really fun!
Sorry no new pics or video=( Maybe I can get some this weekend?
Monday, May 3, 2010
Week 8
Tuesday April 27 was Easy's 20th ride and we trailered out to Pawnee Grasslands with Amy and 4 other riders. I pointed Easy to the wide open and he walked out and passed everyone else, Just as Amy hollard at me to let him go if he needs to go, he started trotting towards the trail heading up the hill, then he picked up the lope and away we went!! I stopped him at the top of the hill and waited on the group. Easy was so much fun to trail ride! He was forward and happy and completely under control the whole ride! What a nice ride he is!
We did a lot of boring arena work the rest of the week, he improves everyday. We are at the stage where I need to learn how to finish him for the competition, so we are learning this together! I have never competed in any of these events, (reining, cow work, and trail) although I have been through several trail courses in my day.
Sunday May 2 we went to the Spring Fling Horse show at CSU (where the EMM competition will be) Easy had no problem being in the arenas or standing at the trailer! I took him in the halter geldings and showmanship class for the exposure, we placed last in each one but expected that since we haven't worked on any of that stuff.
I also entered him in Walk Trot Novice horse and we got first place! yeah! He was spectacularly wonderfully behaved!
Then we went through the novice trail course and got first as well!! woohoo! the judge commented that Easy was a very handy horse!!! click on pics to enlarge
Look how shiney he is! He has not had a bath! This is all from his nutrition! ADM/moorman feeds moorglo and healthyglo and mineral block provided by Amy and Steve LeSatz at Bridle-Bit Training and Tack!! Give them a call and get your horse some of what he is missing!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAgbLGIvGxI
We did a lot of boring arena work the rest of the week, he improves everyday. We are at the stage where I need to learn how to finish him for the competition, so we are learning this together! I have never competed in any of these events, (reining, cow work, and trail) although I have been through several trail courses in my day.
Sunday May 2 we went to the Spring Fling Horse show at CSU (where the EMM competition will be) Easy had no problem being in the arenas or standing at the trailer! I took him in the halter geldings and showmanship class for the exposure, we placed last in each one but expected that since we haven't worked on any of that stuff.
I also entered him in Walk Trot Novice horse and we got first place! yeah! He was spectacularly wonderfully behaved!
Then we went through the novice trail course and got first as well!! woohoo! the judge commented that Easy was a very handy horse!!! click on pics to enlarge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAgbLGIvGxI
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