Starting where I left off! Foxcroft Pony Club took a trip to MA, for Equine Affair! We've been waiting for years to go. Sadly, my mother couldn't make it due to our Pomeranian getting hurt. NEXT YEAR! My parents were kind enough to let me go. (Thank you! <3) Anyway, it was tons of fun. Lot's of shopping opportunities, education, and great clinic to watch and see different perspectives of many types of riding. I'm pretty sure our pony club group could go to a dump, and make it soo much fun. Fantasia was a blast. After bread bowl soup, dough boys, shopping, and meeting fantastic people....and was sadly time to head home!
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| From the left: Emily, Jordan, Kirstin, Me, and my twin, Aaliyah. |
Next on the Agenda was getting Ms.Duellsa mare moved to Infinity Farm for the winter! I do want to thank Gail (owner & main instructor of Infinity Farm) for helping us be able to have Duellsa there for the winter so we can REALLY pursue our event season in 2013!
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| Duellsa and her paddock mate, Remmington. |
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| From the left: Grace, Keri, Me, Amanda, and Jess! |
Finally we had the MeCTA banquet! I was persuaded into wearing a dress. It was tons of fun to see our fellow eventers and instructors in Maine that we don't see in the off season. I was pleasantly surprised with Duellsa and I's winnings! <3 We got Training Reserve Champion for Pine State 2-phase series, Novice Jr. Champion for Pine State 2-phase series, First in Novice for MeCTA (Only Horse Trials), Novice Jr. Champion for FPC Event series, and Overall Grand Champion for FPC event series. I wasn't expecting that at all! I mean, we did good this year. But, I didn't think we did that good.
Pony Updates:
Duellsa- Duelli is doing super at Infinity. I'm really starting to see huge change in her training and just her all over attitude. We had a rough patch at the beginning. We had her tested for Lyme, because she had almost all of the symptoms. The test came back 100% Negative. That was a huge weight of my shoulders! Now, we know it is a hole in her training and it is not something medical. I'm going to try on some "Mare Meds" and see if that helps. Her dressage training in coming along SO well. I promised myself in November I was not going to jump. "No jump November." So with all that dressage boot camp, me being me, we jumped on December 1st! I was really happy with our jump ride. I think people forget that some (most) of their jumping issues can be fixed with more dressage work and strengthening. Yes, when you have spooking or cross country elements issues that's a different story. I'm excited to see how much improvement we'll have in a month or two!
Dixie- Dixie is on vacation at the moment. It is all ice here and really unsafe to ride. I wish I could afford to board her at Infinity as well. That would be fantastic. But, it won't happen so I've gotta do what I usually do and wait for better snow footing. She is on the fat side, so she's on a little Jenny Craig diet. :)
Brie- Brie is on vacation as well. Poor footing is not good for her unknown lameness (long story).
Morty- Mort is......fat and happy. He is loving the snow, but not so much on ice. :)
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