Do You Ride Horses?

[zugzwang.]

There is a gymkhana at my barn today. I am so confused about what to do though. I am in the group trot/lope and my only real competition is one of my friends. We are perfectly tied in points right now and we have decided that what is probably going to happen is the person who misses the most competitions will automatically loose. We are in the middle of the winter season and whoever has the most points by April is the winner and gets a really cool belt buckle. The thing is, I brought up the fact that the person to miss a gymkhana loses on Wednesday and of course I came home yesterday after driving all over the city looking for spurs with no luck and a temperature. I don't feel awesome but I really want to go to the competition. This gymkhana means a lot to me but I am sick. I have the choice to stay or go but I don't know what to do.
I am just wondering if you guys think I should take some Tylenol and go and just not go super hard or just stay home and wish I was there.
Thanks for any answers.
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Ooh barn chores:
Least fav- mucking I just hate it because our stalls are all uneven and I trip all the time

Fav- probably bringing the horses in. We have a way where we create like a path with fences and herd them into the barn

[admires last delight]

Hey guys, I'm FINALLY back.

@LeastFavoriteBarnChore ;
Pulling manes. Pulling Stage's takes so long & stage always shakes her head and I loose the strands I'm about to pull. It's a bit boring too. :/

@FavoriteBarnChore ;
Cleaning cuts, & grooming other people's horses.
Yesterday, Dieke, an owned horse, tried to jump a fence and got hung up halfway. I put some Vaseline on his cuts, I admit, I don't like blood or gore, but I can ignore it a long as its not too bad. I like associating with the other horses too, I also like to give treats to the other horses.

If anyone's interested, I have some MAJOR updates with Stage. & also some lovely pictures from yesterday's clinic. (;

[Mr.Milo]

@mochele: That sounds awesome that your signing up for dressage!

@Admire: I would love to hear about Stage.

[LissaJo]

@fav barn chore - my fav is prob grooming, especially if you have a horse who loves being groomed! (my grumpy old mare hated it and would try to bite you but 2 of my other mares loved it and would lip and groom you back)

[Chunky11]

@favourite barn chore- well, my friend owns a private barn. She made it from scratch and only 5 horses are stabled there. One is min and the rest is theirs. But my favourite chore is probably tacking up. I hate grooming because my horse goes out in the feild (WHOOPIE! He can't roll and get dirty andmore!))

[Sadie~Bronson~252]

Oh gosh, barn chores.

My least favorite thing varied from time to time. In the winter I hated mucking stalls because that barn flooded every time the snow melted, so everything would be froze to the floor, and sometimes you had to chip away the ice to even open the stall doors. Luckily there were rarely horses in the barn. I also couldn't stand tacking up for the girls who were too lazy to do it themselves, and made me do it on top of all my other work. And I hated catching all the horses when it was 90 degrees out. But there was nothing I really didn't like doing. Except for hauling water. Before she had enough hoses to reach out to all the pastures, we had to haul water in two 30 gallon barrels. I dropped one on my foot once and almost broke it. After that I got steel-toe boots

As for my favorite... I liked everything. Grooming, tacking up, cleaning the corral, cleaning the barn, watering the horses, feeding hay, picking rocks, fixing fences, clearing the trails, basic medical care, deworming... I liked it all. I guess because most of the time I was doing it by myself, and Darla wasn't out there yelling at me to do more work on top of that.

[stirrupirons]

@Admires: I'd love to hear about Stage and see those pics

@Milo: Yeah, I'm super excited Thinker's shown first level, so intro will be no problem for us.

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Leaving at one for my hack! I'm going to work on my intro test B, transitions, bending, leg yields, and some other stuff I also made some treats a while ago, let's see if Thinker likes them haha

New topic! What's your favorite coloring on a horse?
I looooooove bays and blacks. I'm a bay/black girl, haha.

[LissaJo]

@fav color- i love anything with a loud appy pattern.. And sorrels with lots of chrome!

[opal.]

@Monchele's Topic


Ooo that's a toughy! Hmmm.....Probably Dapple Greys, dark bay with white markings (Like a big blaze or socks), like this- My Dream Horse!. I actually really, really love buckskins and buckskin paints, but I don't usually like the confirmation of the horses that color But I really like grey/white pintos too! I like so many colors! XD

[zugzwang.]

Ooh. I have to say that I like runs buckskins and dapple greys but I also like chestnuts. After all I do ride a chestnut and I dyed my hair the coloured of a chestnut