Showing posts with label jumping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jumping. Show all posts

Saturday, July 26, 2008

Storeybook Farm Show






We're back from the Storeybook Farm show. First pic is from Walk/Trot Eq. Second is my daughter and my mother with the 2 seconds and 4 third place ribbons!, 3rd pic is Matty running out on a jump and 4th is right after he made the jump. I can't ever get a pic of her going over -- my camera is old and weird. That's the judge in the p/u truck with the crazy umbrella. Matt was good and did not freak out at the umbrella or at anything else on the show grounds. But he ran out on a bunch of the jumps. Little bastard. They still got a second in one of the jumping rounds. LOL. Yesterday he didn't run out at all. More shows are what he needs. It got really hot so we were glad we were finished and back home by noon. I want to look into getting E back in lessons. Her leg position got better as the day went along.

Oh, and I need to be awarded a ribbon for trailer backing!!! I backed out of an angled parking space, into a road with a big ditch on the other side pulled back into the driveway and turned all the way around while avoiding cars and a tied up TB. Fun!!!

Friday, July 25, 2008

Matt gets ready for a Little Show



This is my daughter and Matt practicing for tomorrow's schooling show. How do you like our homemade jump? It is 16 inches!! My daughter hasn't ridden much in about 8 weeks because she broke her arm (rollerskting, not riding!). She's just getting her confidence back so she'll probably just enter trotting the X's tomorrow. Don't they say you should enter the class a step lower than you've been practicing? That will help rebuild her confidence. I can't wait to see this new barn and meet some English riding people. I love my local western club friends, but they just don't get it why we like to jump. One time and they'd be hooked on it, I'm sure.