Full Schedule!

                  Wow, My horses never cease to amaze me! They have been SO good :)

           So first I'll start out with my H-B rating. It was pretty interesting. Jessica and I did great. I failed Poisonous Plants, Conditioning schedule, Structures of the Hoof, and my unmounted lesson. I was a little irritated. I thought I only failed Poisonous Plants cause I didn't study them enough, and when it came to that section my mind went blank.... They did not like my conditioning schedule because it was supposed to be something I can follow with any horse that is of the same fitness, instead it was more like a Log of what I actually did in preparation to AEC's. The Hoof part was a little ridiculous. I got all the inner and outer structures, but then she asked me was the Navicular Bursa was for, I simply answered "The navicular bursa is a synovial "sac" between the navicular bone and DDF tendon and serves to lubricate the tendon as it slides over the back of the navicular bone." and I guess she didn't like it. Also she failed me on the fact that,I forgot was the Sensitive Laminae was for. The weird thing is....She didn't ask anyone else about the functions of the parts in the hoof. So I thought that was a little funky :/. My Unmounted Lesson was kind of my fault. I had a great lesson for Cross country Jump Identification :D. I had two D-3's so they already knew it, and I taught  the lesson and it was too short. I planned it for 4-5 kids so there was a reason it was short. So I was kind of upset about it and I'm glad that a passed everything else. It was also odd that out of the two days of H-B testing 3 out the 20ish people passed.

 The Next exciting thing was the Steuart Pitman Clinic! On Friday I took Keiko. We worked on getting her straight to the fences, and pushing her forward. She was so good and jumped anything I pointed her to. On the + side Steuart REALLY liked her! Saturday I took Duelli. I was so ecstatic in the a.m. because she got on with only like 6 tries! In the lesson, I couldn't have asked her to be any better. She was literally perfect. Her 1st time on a real cross country course! Jumping ditches, banks, in&out of water, and everything else I pointed her too. I think she had way too much fun. At the end I asked Steuart what I should be working on, and he said "Nothing, keep doing what your doing." So I guess that is a good sign when a clinician says that. Better yet she got on the trailer on the 3rd try. I think I am going to be on a "OMG DUELLI WAS SO GOOD" high for a bit :) 

   Today, Tomorrow and Friday I am at Infinity Farm for Judy Westlake Camp.

I took Miss Dixie today. We worked on really stretching out before and while your riding. Oh, and learning to be more like Men. They ride with know emotions. Their horse does something wrong, BOOM correction and they continue on. Us women we don't get mad, don't get mad, don't get mad, don't get mad, then we get PISSED and take it out on everyone. Then it repeats. Which is SO true. She also said Positive emotions get in our way too. Like your jumping a course, and your horse jumps the jump he has always had trouble with and you say "GOOD GIRL/BOY" then you canter on past you next jump. I think everyone has done or is going to experience that sometime. I sure have!

Now to see what the next two days of Judy camp bring for me and Ryn!

-Ashley