Champ

[Emily]

Thanks, guys! He is doing really well!!

[Champ]

Hey Mia, I was at the barn Wednesday to ride, and then at 2:30 on Thursday for our fabulous ride! I'll be out again Monday evening too if you want to ride with me!

[Champ]

Hey, I had the best lesson ever with Maria ( I rode Dante, so that doesn't really belond in here). After that I rode Champ with Maria and Brandy, and he was soooo good- after Maria finished practicing her western level 3 pattern, she said I should try it on Champ. For his level of training it was practically perfect; he isn't a great horse with upward transitions, but he loped, and there was a definite speed change when we went into big circles, plus he did the turn on the forehand and turn on the haunches! Yay pony!

[Champ]

I've signed up for the Canada Day Show- Novice Hack and Hopeful Jumper for the English Day, and for Western we are doing the Command, Trail, Horsemanship, and Pleasure classes. We're so excited~

Rode tonight, and there was a course set up, all small crossrails, so we started practicing that. However, my big bruiser just steps over them, so I put them all up to verticals. He was so good- there were 5 jumps, and we did them as a course of 10 (twice each) at the trot. Then we tried it with some cantering. I'd love to say we cantered the whole thing but that would be a crazy lie! However, we cantered the line, the vertical on the long side, and the brush box on the diagnol(once.) the vertical on the other diagnol had only a bit of space to get straight though and he broke, then went over wiggly. We did the course 3 times, plus the practice we did prior, with us doing them in patterns of one or two.

Right now I'm finding it hard to get him moving- he goes over the jump, fine, but there's no energy in it. Maybe we need to spend some time working on out enthusiasm But I think he'll be fine in the show, with the excitement and all.

[Emily]

He was really excited at the last show, so I wouldn't worry about it.

For the show I'm in the English Walk Trot division. I'm really excited!!

When I rode today (I used one of the lease rides I earned from Ange) I did a bit of jumping and worked on canter transitions. He's starting to step into them instead of running into them like a mentalcase He's doing really good with them so far!

[Adam]

You guys will be just fine Kelly.
You do aweosme with him!

Em, you looked great with him today! He deffinitaly looked better with his canter transitions.

Go Champ!

[Maria]

Canter transitions in your show prep for the W/T division? hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[Maria]

Kelly, I'm riding with you and Jess tomorrow!

[Champ]

yay! Trail ride for us today! I'm definitely taking my new purple saddle bags.

Want to go to Thomas Amusements later? I *love* the Tilt-A-Whirl!

[Jessica]

Yay, trail ride today Norms first ever at Equine! If any of the Southern girls are out, feel free to pop up, we'll be leaving around 5:30-6!

And Kelly i'm up for thomas ammusments!

[Maria]

HELL YES

[Champ]

woo hoo! You're my favorite, you know that? Ok, see ya soon!

[sarahparmiter]

haha wow, emily;; i like your 2 point position on the 1st pic
kelly!; i rode your horsie the other day for my lease ride and for a lesson . he was GREAT! hes gotten ALOTTTTTTTTTTTT better. like ..and i mean, ALOT. i havent rideen him in like. 4 months. mann, WHAT A DIFFERENCE! lol its like he thinks you have sppurs on all the time. I LOVE IT! haha but ya. hes doing amazingly well. you and emily are doing an awsome job. o ya, in my lesson i jumped him for the first time since i fell off of him. he was great! i was SO proud of myself ....and him haha anyways. keep up the good work!

[Champ]

Should have stuck this in here a while ago, but here are Champ's placings for the Canada Day Show:

Novice Division (with me)
Trail- 2nd
Horsemanship- 3rd
Pleasure- 5th

Walk/Trot Division (with Emily):

Pleasure- 1st
Horsemanship (I think this is the class?): 1st
Equitation over crossrails: 5th

AND Highpoint Champion in Walk/Trot Division

[Emily]

Haha Kelly, it's equitation, not horsemanship!