Do You Ride Horses? V.4

[[Braveheart]]

Okay! Thanks everyone for your input! It means a lot. ^~^ I'm pasture riding tomorrow, and will let you guys know how that goes!

[BlingBling]

khp pic spam time (I apologize ;u;) all will be uploaded to my DA later tonight or tomorrow

SNIP IF QUOTING I BEG OF THEE



they had an Arabian show going on but I didn't want to meddle around in the event stabling too much

[Mercury.Muses]

Love that bridle in the second pic! All beautiful horses.

Also I somehow forgot but regarding riding age, at my old stables (when I was a little youngin.) there was a lesson horse that was 31-32 possibly? He was quite the kicker, I know he was at least over 25.

[❧Emmylou]

Here's my baby Woodie!
He only has one eye due to a disease he got when he was 5.... He's still doing great- I went to a show yesterday and placed first in three classes with him! (I don't mean to brag... Sorry XD )

I'm so sad because they are putting down this old lesson horse at my stables today. ;-; she stopped eating, so my trainer didn't want to let her suffer... (Everybody loved this horse too...)

[Nocte Luna]

@Hime Always great to hear Feykja updates! It's so awful that the barn drama resulted in someone leaving- that poor leaser!

@June Bug
Great to hear from you and Granix again! Hopefully all your pasture problems will get resolved without too much of a fuss.

@Banishment
It's most likely a TB or QH, if not, then maybe a warmblood (that's a BIG maybe) but it's more than likely a TB, QH, or mix of both.

@Food conversation
I've seen twizzlers enjoyed by horses, our horses like to try and eat fake plastic flowers from the jump fillers...I've used a package of spoons like they were treats for one of our wiggly horses, and ate horse treats (it was a while ago). Horses are weird, and that's okay.

@Kestrell
DA if you want it short and sweet, 007 or Bond might be a nice barn name too. Or even something completely unrelated that you like- show names don't have to relate to barn names.

@My riding
The weather yesterday was disgusting. It was ~90 (Fahrenheit) and everyone was absolutely ROASTING. Callahan, the horse K rides, was sweating inside with all the big fans on. He was getting tacked and was already covered in sweat. Everyone was sweating while grooming&tacking and it was truly awful. We didn't do a lot in the lesson yesterday, just a little bit of jumping at probably 1.5ft at the highest. I didn't want to ride anyone else anyways, due to the heat and the flies. I still desperately need an ear bonnet for Pete, and maybe polo wraps so then bugs will stay off his legs. On the bright side, we got to ride the new course yesterday, which was really fun, but unfortunately there were no straight lines, (which is unfortunate because I'm good at those) only weird bending lines.

Luckily I didn't have to teach yesterday, but I did have to run with park district and the 2:30 trot class, so I was dead after that. H and I changed into shorts but we were still disgustingly sweaty and gross. We also had to close up, but it meant helping wash the horses after they were all done, which was really nice.

Mostly everything was just gross, in short.

Hopefully I'll be heading to a tack shop soon to get some breeches (seriously, I only have 4 pairs right now and desperately need more) in either red, dark green, purple, grey, or brown (grey is my favorite option right now) as well as ear bonnet(s), a saddle pad or two, polo wraps if I can find some, and maybe a saddle that's actually mine, because the shop I usually go to is going out of business, so I'm trying a new one with consignment saddles.

Probably going to the barn today to help out and ride a little bit, hopefully the weather will be more bearable today.

[vash ♡]

He was born at 3:00 am this morning. C; I named him Luca.

[bunnyrabbit651]

I love riding! I don't have my own horse but I work at a riding school and we're all super excited that the ground has dried up (finally!) and we can ride out int he fields again. I'm going to be going to a cross country course for the first time ever next week, does anyone have any tips on not dying?

[Smol_Lionheart77]

I agree, when it comes to steering horses, it's all in the legs. The way I was schooled, we were taught that the reins control the head of the horse and the legs control the back half, when it comes to that, you must use both.

[Mercury.Muses]

I'm not sure where the steering convo started? ;o But I hardly use legs on Sugar. It's not like I soley rely on the reins either though. It's one of those, every horse is different cases for me because on Missy (other one of the mares there.) I use a lot more leg when turning and whatnot, but she was trained by leg. When it comes to Sugar, I rely on vocal cueing her pace because when I tap with my legs, she really gets in a big huss.

Ears back, teeth grinding, etc. It's not a refusal to move into the pace though, she does, but she's a lot more happier when I cue with my voice. Her turns are rather loose nowadays too so, so I just need to do neck-reins.

[Albino_]

Guys. I have started Western lessons! And I got to jog(trot) yesterday at my first ever lesson! Then today I got to canter. But they wanted me to gallop so I think I got Lola to gallop but I felt centering. I now have 2 hour lessons on Saterdays and if I'm at my dads then 2 hour lessons on Sundays!