Good Girl..... AIYA!!!!!

Oh Jazzy, you are the devil.

First she's awesome, she cruises over her little jump. She holds her head all pretty. She does exactly what I ask. And then she is a bucking kicking, squealing monster. Yikes!

So, it was her first day jumping. Her 10th time cantering. She did awesome going over her little jump. It was really quite cute. But when I picked up the canter and moved into 2 pt, she bucked and hit me in the butt with my saddle. Its even my comfy saddle and it still hurt!!! So, I gave her a little punishment and asked for it again, this time she kicked, bucked, lunged forward, and was dumb, so I gave her a little bit bigger punishment. Then I asked for a canter again, and she shot to the left, but I held on with my leg, then she shot the other way, and I held on with my other leg, back and forth, back and forth. So today, my butt is killing me and my legs feel like death. Ouch!! Haha.

That was yesterday. I worked with her again today and she was doing very very good. It was only lunging work, but she did a beautiful little 2' fence. Sooo cute!! Only 1 more foot to go up..... and then a rider on there too, haah, thats the hard part!

Meet my Nemesis

This is Shadow. She is a pain in the _____. I hate her more then anything in the world. She is ugly, and she drools, she is lazy, and she farts, and she's downright mean. I rode her in the show this summer and got disqualified from 2 classes thanks to her buttheadness. The picture is so far away becuase any closer you might be blinded by her disgusting Apaloosa eyses. This picture is amazing though- she's actually jumping the fence, not just stopping and then going and then stopping and then going and then stopping and then going....

Meet Shazam!

Shazam is a 3 yr old Arabian Gelding given to me by Amanda Brucks last summer. Shazam has always had a wild streak, and it has been quite hard to get his trust. I am finally starting to get it (18 months after I got him) and he is becoming quite the character. Shazam has started his basic training of saddling and longing in October, however with school and everything I have been too busy to really get him going.

Update: I have started working with him for the last week. He's smart, likes to jump over and out of things, and hates my "flag" by his flanks. I was planning on being able to ride him by today, but I don't think he'll be ready till next week sometime, if I can work with him some more. Finally, here's a picture of the little rascal!!

Meet Snowy!!

Snowy is an 8 year old Arabian Mare. She actually belongs to the Mielke's but I have been in charge of her training and then selling her. This summer I used her for BGC horsecamps where she learned some tough lessons about working all by herself. Some of these lessons included her rearing up so high she just about flipped over. Another was when I had had enough of her prancing, got off, tied her up, and let her stand there freaking out for over an hour. Ohh, the joy. She too has piled me countless times. I did take her to the show in Meadow Lake where we did Gymkhana. She did awesome there placing one first and two seconds. Go Snowy!! Snowy is currently for sale for $2500. Her price will increase to $3000 at the end of this summer.

Meet Jazmyn!!

Jazmyn is a 6 year old Arapaloosabredian Mare. That is the fancy term for a Heinz 57 horse. Anyway, I bought her in March, a month after the horse I had originally bought died. However, by buying her and not the other Clyde/TB, I saved myself 2000. So far she has been quite a bit of fun to train. She was very abused at her old home so it has taken me about 6 months to get both her trust and respect. Now we are working on riding work away from the other horses. She has a beautiful trot and canter and is very athletic. By next summer I am planning on competing up to the 3' jumper divisions and testing my C1 and possibly C2 Pony Club rating. Although she is small (only 15.1 hh) she has a huge stride which I am having alot of fun learning to ride. Definately a difference between her and all the other QH's and Apaloosa's I have been riding!

Meet Jet!

Well, I think it's about time to throw some pictures in here, so let me introduce you to Jet.

Jet is a 10 year old Thoroughbred Quarter Horse with a very bad bucking problem. For the past year I have been retraining him and showing him in Dressage and Hunter Under Saddle.

So far we have been to only two shows. The first was in Saskatoon where he was on his worst behavior. He tried to throw me before I even made it to the warm-up ring and so I lunged him for 45 minutes until he was completely exhausted. By then did not have the energy to either buck me off or do well in any classes.

The other show in town was a little better, however he had had the last 3 weeks off intensive work, so he was a little rough around the edges. We still won the Jr. Champion !!