нorѕeѕ & rιderѕ ғтw! ♞

[benexo]

Laina, Dolly is just stunning! Beautiful horse (:

[karkadorr]

I like showing, but I've been taking a break, just to recollect myself and relax for a bit. c:
Driving? That's interesting; I've never come across someone who drives before. What do you do? :3
Oh, she's absolutely gorgeous! Haha, I wish I had my own horse. Unfortunately, where I live there isn't really space, but I did get to lease a horse I regularly ride, named Mystic. He's a skewbald cob, and has no forelock. ;3 I love him to bits, but at the moment he's being leased out to someone else, so I'm not really sure about what to do. The thing is, I kind of don't really have another horse that I've ridden suited to me like Mystic, so I'm kind of stumped.

[Lainalou]

Thank you both. I love her to bits, but miss her dearly. :c
Mystic sounds very cute. c: Sad though you won't get to ride him as much.
Driving is all different things, but I'm mainly interested in carriage driving. It's like dressage but with a carriage and instead of memorizing a pattern the judge just tells you what to do. But you're judged based on how well your horse listens and the movements of the horse as well as overall appearance.
I also think scurry would be fun, driving as fast as you can around cones on an obstacle course and aiming to get the fastest time.
Is English or Western more common where you're at?

[benexo]

Fate and I live in the same place and ride at the same club, where we both do English dressage and jumping. No western here (:
I'll say more about my riding later on, it's 1am here haha.

[karkadorr]

Yeah, me and benexo ride at the same place c:

It's all english there, but I would like to try western.
As for the topic of driving, it sounds really interesting! I'm going to go and search up some driving videos on youtube later; I'd love to see what it's like. Do you have your own carriage? c:

I love show jumping, but dressage is also really big for me; I love how when you get the horse round and in an outline, how amazing it feels. I can't decide between both, haha c:

[Lainalou]

Oh goodness, you guys are up late. It's 8:30 PM here, haha.
That's really cool that you both have each other in real life and on CS.

[karkadorr]

Yeah, haha (: Actually, I'm on vacation right now, so it's about 4:34 where I am now c:

[Lainalou]

Sorry, for some reason your last post didn't show up before.

I do have my own cart but it's in America unfortunately. I live in New Zealand now so I unfortunately have neither cart nor horse at this time. :/

Where I lived before it was all Western, no English. However, here, it's the opposite, no now I'm learning dressage. I take lessons at a local equestrian centre.

[karkadorr]

I'd like to try western; it looks fun. c: But those stirrups look like they're made of like, three layers of hard leather all stacked on each other, lol.

Dressage is so fun to learn and ride c: I love dressage; how are the lessons going?

[benexo]

Laina, I hope your lessons are going well! Do you enjoy learning dressage nowadays? It's so cool that you do things such as driving! (:

I lease a horse named Little Lisa, who's a showjumper but is still great at dressage. We've jumped up to 115cm! I'm looking forward to taking her to a competition in late August at a different club for the first time - we'll see how that goes, haha. Hopefully it goes well!!

I also ride a horse named Roby, who I've leased in the past. He's so, well, "unique", in many ways indeed, but I love him to bits and pieces. He's my baby <3 I do dressage on him and I'm also teaching him how to jump!