by Hanoverian » Mon Jul 11, 2011 3:25 am
I love Hanoverians, Paints, Trakehners, Boulonnais, KWPN, Arabians, and many more. (:
Uman was jumping terribly at the show. xD He isn't a good jumper at all, he tends to launch himself over, and due to a prior injury, he can't jump very high. So our first class was a cross rails warm up. The first line went fabulously, but then, in the corner, I got him to do a flying change, but he got 2 leads, so then I asked again but he got the wrong lead, and then it just went downhill. x-D We got 4th for overall warmup, which was pretty good, because there were a ton of people. Then in the cross rails class, we got 6th out of nine because I almost fell off... Uman tripped and did a mini-buck at the same time and I fell up onto his neck. I managed to bruise my throat on the saddle. My trainer said that she would've fallen forward too, because Uman is already downhill, and when he trips, he stops all motion and doesn't recover. >< I kinda had a mental breakdown at that point... haha.
Then we did 2 flat classes. The first one was against I think 7-10 people? I don't remember. But it was a Hunter Hack, Walk trot canter, and judged on your horse. We got second. My friend, who is from my barn, got first!
Then we did the Equitation (based on your position) class, Walk trot canter, against the same people. We got FIRST! My friend got 2nd. <333
@Bear:He sounds like fun to ride! Uman is nice and smooth too. Please post pictures!
@Never: Uman did the same thing to me recently, too! But I managed to land on my neck, lower back, and butt all at the same time...
@Christine: Yay for horse camps! I have one at the very end of July.