I am still here! Just been WAYY to busy for my own good. But, still loving it :)
All the horses are doing GREAT! Dixie is developing back muscle and getting back into it! Keiko is excelling in her dressage and jumping, she is finally growing into her self! Oh, Baby draft horses :) Duelli got a week off (May 31-June 7th) Due to lack of weight, we've had a hard time keeping weight on her. It is driving me CRAZY. She gets Poulin E-tec and Poulin Promax, 5 flakes of hay @ night, soaked alfalfa cubes every other night, a multi Vitamin, Ulcer Supplement, and Pro-biotics. So, she gets plenty of food. It is not worms ethier. But we started her back in work a bit and she is just amazing, I CANNOT wait till she is good in the trailer so I can event her! :) Ryn is in "Rehab" with me and Debbie Place. We are working on just getting her to stretch down, and over her back to build muscle. It's weird, when we get her to that point she almost as a fear of moving correctly. She is a BIG mare wit BIG gaits when she gets moving, But she's fussy and going slow. But with Me and Debbie working her she is getting there. She is not as sore in her back which is good. I kinda want to keep her @ Peppergrass farm with Debbie for a little bit :) It is like and hour and 15 mins away, but totally worth the gas money. She probably won't be jumping too much till her dressage is fixed. Morty is fat and happy! :)
So, the busy part. I went to the CNE Mock H-B (May 28th) with Jessica Champange, and that went GREAT. It was a good confidence builder for me since I am still iffy about taking my H-B rating :\.
On May 30th I took Duelli to a jumper show! She was such a superstar! NO refusals all day. Only two rails down. I was so so proud of her. We did and 18inch course, 2ft, and 2"3. Although she could have gone much higher, I wanted to keep it simple for her 1st show EVER.(Jump show Video I think we need a running martingale)
June 4th I took Keiko and Dixie to a Mary O'Rourke clinic. I had a amazing dressage lesson with Dixie! Mary even got on her :). It was an eye opening lesson for me because I didn't realize how much Dixie was hollowing her back out. :( But we worked on it and I have some exercises to work on. I had a Cross country lesson on Keiko. I couldn't have asked her to be better! Keiko? Jumping Novice fences with ease? Yep you read it right! She such a "Steady Eddie" :)
June 11th was NER Dressage Rally! That went REALLY well. Our two FPC teams did fabulous! On my team we had to kids get 71's! all our scores were great. I had a tough time though :\ After being up there for 12 HOURS Friday setting up, I did not get home till like 9:00pm and still had to get Dixie ready, and clean tack so I was up till all hours. So running on 3 hours of sleep at Dressage Rally? Not fun. I went to do my 1st test (Training 3) and went of course. Still got a 64! Then the 2nd test......(First level test 1) I went of course not 1, but 2 times!! I was so pissed at my self. I just couldn't remember the tests!(got a 63) Finally, did my 3rd test (First 1) and it was simply perfection. I remembered it, and Dixie was holy smokes good.(Got a 65!) She was fabulous all day it was her silly mommy and her sleep deprived brain was not so good.. Over all we got 11th in Horse Management (opps) and FIRST for the riding portion! I was so proud of my team. Our other FPC team did great as well! They got 6th in Horse Management and SECOND in the riding portion! GO FOXCROFT PONY CLUB! :D
Today was the Infinity Farm 2-phase. I took Ms. Keiko! We did Beg. Novice and she was AWESOME, we got a 32 in dressage and a clear stadium course! We ended the day with..............(drum roll)..........FIRST! I am SO happy <3
Now for two dressage shows this weekend with Dixie!
Oh, Also I want you guys (the people that actually read this) to keep a friend of mine in there prayers. She is going through a tough time at the moment, with her horse having to be put down. She has not had him very long, almost a year. They were an amazing pair <3 Ellie and her family did absolutely everything they could to save Blaze, after thousands of dollars and lots of prayers, her family and the vets at NEEVH decided to humanely euthanize Blaze considering he was very sick, and wouldn't even be pasture sound :(. So why keep the poor guy in pain? They made the right decision, and did everything they could. R.I.P Blaze's Black Magic <3
Ellie Demmons and Blaze's Black Magic forever <3 LOVE YOU ELLIE!
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