tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52440748520603647262024-02-19T21:13:42.249-08:00our trail to happinessCCChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02078026315159098225noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5244074852060364726.post-83989665677228823852015-10-26T06:37:00.000-07:002015-10-26T06:38:12.729-07:00fun fall riding and a photo shoot with my family<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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If this picture doesn' t show how far we have came, nothing will! Kizz wearing a little S hack and riding out for a super short ride ( to him) with Ava lee & Dream ...and in FALL! (when he gets very hyper on trail) </div>
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A fun trail ride with my friend <a href="http://afatgirlafathorse.blogspot.ca/">Amanda</a> & Bronwyn for her " last ride as a free woman" before her marriage ! ;)</div>
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Some cute family pics that included my boy Kizz!</div>
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All 5 of us with the 5 horses!</div>
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Dream 14, & Ava lee 6, Emma 9 & Aadon 12, Raine 6 & Alex 21, Myself & kizz 9 and hubby Chris with Coby 16</div>
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All 5 of us with 3 of our mounts :)</div>
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My family with our 2 girls, Cinna, Mini Aussie (3) and Ally the boxer (8)</div>
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CCChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02078026315159098225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5244074852060364726.post-33810418012975906142015-09-14T05:22:00.002-07:002015-09-14T05:22:21.091-07:00Fall arrives ! LOVE fall riding! Enjoying getting some riding in with our new Trail partner my son Alex and his new mare Raine. I'm having a blast going with them and it makes me sooo happy. These are for sure the very best days of my life ... Riding with my kiddos, I'll never forget it!<br />
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Raine has something going on, she frequently bucks at the canter, and she's sooo sweet and quiet we KNOW it has to be pain or something. So we scheduled in a Chiro to come check her out. Fingers crossed its something easily fixed! She's sooo sweet and such a good girl! Alex and her do great other wise. We get some trotting in on the Rail way and I think they're doing great together. Kizz gets his huge extended floaty trot going and sadly I have to ask him to slow so Raine can keep up! lol! but we sure have fun!<br />
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Kizz is being his smart sweet self so far this fall! (usually fall he gets very hyper as he is fit and we slow down our amount of riding so he's a bit FRESH )<br />
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Getting ready to leave on a ride down to the rail way</div>
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my son Aadon walks down the pave with us to his buddys house</div>
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Aadon takes a couple pics :)</div>
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haha Raine is such a good girl <3</div>
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Alex & I jogging down the railway :)</div>
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<br />CCChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02078026315159098225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5244074852060364726.post-11022202397621335902015-08-31T12:56:00.001-07:002015-08-31T12:56:59.174-07:00Kizz and I .... to be continued ???Do I continue with our blog , our Trail to happiness ?? because I am sure we have made it here!!! <br />
I feel so confident and happy with Kizz and doing this with him has done more for my self confidence and pride in myself than anything else ever has. I have gained new friends, strength, health, pride in myself, a closer relationship with 2 of my kids even! I can't ask for anything more.<br />
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In August alone, I have galloped with the reins ahead on his neck down a trail neither of us had ever seen before, knowing he would take care of us!! and Crossed mud and ditches we had never seen before, him knowing I wouldn't ask him to go where he couldn't safely go...<br />
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I 've rode out alone with my 6 yr old on her mini mare, with him -his FIRST time on trail in a S hack at that!!<br />
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I've done some trails with him prancing along behind both of my kids riding in front of us, and knew he would chill and behave or at least that he wouldn't endanger them!<br />
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I've galloped along with my friend on her OTTB giving it our all!! and long trotted ahead of them even keeping pace without breaking into a canter.. I Love this horse and we are both very HAPPY!<br />
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I have trusted him to take my son out and show him the ropes of endurance and taking care of ourselves.. something I thought Kizz would NEVER do! </div>
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<br />CCChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02078026315159098225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5244074852060364726.post-37140410441671674182015-08-31T12:38:00.003-07:002015-08-31T12:38:55.752-07:00August, our first ACTRA ride of the year! Kizz & I have been doing very short and somewhat slow rides with my son Alex & his new mare Raine, and not much for conditioning in July, since we are only planning to do JP's with him and we have been super busy working on our new barn at home most evenings and weekends. Well just a few days before our first 15 mile JP of the year "Mcdonalds run JP" , Alex's mare comes up lame with a HUGE abscess :(<br />
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Luckily she heals up fine, but we can not take her to any rides, So I have to decide if I want to still go. I realize I have the trailer borrowed, hubby is taking the weekend off to go ,we have already bought alot of the things we need to camp out with the horses the first time ever on our own.. So we go!! We take my daughter and her Mini mare Dream. The ride Manager says it's completely fine for Ava lee & Dream to pull at half way and only do half. So we plan for that! (7 ish miles is still a fair amount for my daughter's little mare.<br />
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We arrive at camp and set up! So nervous!!! our first time doing this without a long time endurance rider taking charge!! We set up and the horses seem great! they settle in perfectly!! How nice! We pitch our tent and settle in as well :) Lucky a nice ACTRA member lends us her fence charger as I don't have one and I'm so worried it being our first ride that one of ours might decide to test the fence! It is Dream's First trip from home too! totally new to her!<br />
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Not long after when we get settled in, we learn from some of Saturdays riders , that there isn't a LOT of mud, but the mud there is, is fairly deep. We decide it would probably make the 7 mile ride too much for Dream's little legs!! So She stays back at camp. I have a lady that says she doesn't mind me riding out with her!! So we tack up and get ready to go! I have a very nervous stomach!! This will be Kizz's first time going somewhere new and riding out with horses he doesn't know!!! WILL he be a nut and spin and scream, will he get racy and not listen... I have NO idea how he is going to handle this!!<br />
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A cute picture of Kizz and I on trail taken by Jodi ! Look at the loose rein !! What a guy!! so proud of him! He did SO well, It totally has given me the confidence to take him to a ride and ride out alone sometime!! but hoping my son is going along with me for most of them from now on!!! </div>
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What a great ride, great meal, great time camping! lots of nice members came and chatted with us! An all around great time with My hubby, oldest son and daughter. Wish my middle son had come too , but he's not much for horses OR camping out! haha but we missed him! </div>
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<br />CCChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02078026315159098225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5244074852060364726.post-73442843039361838412015-07-16T04:08:00.001-07:002015-07-16T04:17:32.593-07:00May, June & July 2015 Kizz has been doing good this year! Much better with most things, but I have found a few old problems popped up. Like leaving others on trail and such. He has pranced and jigged whenever anyone gets too far ahead. But to be fair we have only done 2 group rides so far this year!<br />
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We rode out in June and met up with local ladies, Kaaren, Robyn and Breah. Kizz for the first time splashed in the water, I think he is deciding water isn't so bad!! lol<br />
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The most exciting thing to happen so far this summer, is that my son bought his own horse!!! He has rode off and on all his life, but never had time to ride real regular. We found him the perfect horse!! She is sweet , healthy , young and super quiet !!! She will lead, follow, leave us on trail and head home alone even!! she's lovely to work with!<br />
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His, and my daughter's first group ride ! Ava lee & Dream have been riding 1-2 x a week out on little 5k ish rides each week and is doing well ( I ride Coby when we go , as Kizz gets pretty hyper on such short rides! and I want Ava lee to be safe ) but they are doing super awesome and I'm sooo proud!!<br />
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Alex is on his grey Arab mare on far left, my friend Amanda with Brownyn the black mare next, then Ava lee my 6 yr old on her mini mare Dream :) Kizz & I , then my friend Robyn on her bay mare Bambi, then her daughter Reagan on Bullet her pony gelding.</div>
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So far this year is going great! Kizz and I have been riding out with Alex and his mare, so haven't been doing very long conditioning rides since she came in June. But I am having a blast! Kizz is doing well for doing such short rides too, not too hyper coming in! We are planning to go on a JP Aug 2 !! Hope it goes well . We will go Saturday and camp over night and see how Raine does with camping over night. She has been perfect so far, so I'm sure it'll go well!!! Wish us luck!!<br />
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<br />CCChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02078026315159098225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5244074852060364726.post-85758179697354230112015-04-18T05:58:00.002-07:002015-04-18T06:36:47.695-07:00Kizz & I first ride of 2015! April 13/15 Spring finally has hit!! We thought it would never come this year! Still the banks are high and snow deep in the fields, but it's getting warm and melting quick! Can't wait to get out on the trails, but for now, we are just riding in the driveway! (just like old times huh? )<br />
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Kizz was super hyper and didn't listen very well but that was fine, (lots of taking off on me and jigging) we got in a good work out, he was sweaty by time we quit!! something funny happened, he jumped up on the high flower bed with me on.. I didn't think he would, but I asked and he did! Very out of the ordinary for Kizz to do what I ask unless he's starting to trust me maybe! ;)<br />
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Getting excited for ride season! I've been sick off and on every since Sept, and have been having a hard time getting in good exercise ;( bought a treadmill so I could at least run inside during the bad weather, but only ran 3 weeks before the bad chest cold came back again! :( Planning to run 10k this year!! (Last year my goal was 5k)<br />
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Wow, we had lots of firsts last year!! Mine & Kizz's first LD, Kizz & I ride at night first time, first time riding in a rain storm! , Ava lee's first real trail ride, Ava lee's first time riding Dream on trail not being ponied!<br />
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We got our first Horse trailer! (well not exactly our first, but our first since we started riding the horses at AWAY events! so we are pretty excited!! It's a 5 horse that we are changing to a 4 horse with a little LQ up front! We LOVE it!! We also got our first NEW vehicle !! A brand new 2015 Chev 2500 HD truck for hauling Ava lee & I to all kinds of horse events!!! Can't wait for 2015, it's going to be a lovely year........riding and working with all 3 horses :)<br />
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my colorful group</div>
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Chris getting to know the new girl!</div>
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Ava lee & her friend Reagan ( my riding buddy/friend Robyn's daughter) did their first little trail ride together on their ponies.. it was sooo cute! Dream was horrible though and even bucked Ava lee off :(<br />
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She of course got back on , and has rode her even bareback since.. she's a trooper!!<br />
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Ava lee & Dream first winter ride Dec.14/14</div>
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Reagan & Bullet, and Ava lee & Dream</div>
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<br />CCChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02078026315159098225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5244074852060364726.post-18256865949954349002014-09-16T05:15:00.003-07:002015-01-03T07:30:32.459-08:00Summer 2014 & Our first LD ! (and Ava lee's first trail ride)<br />
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We have had a great summer of riding Kizz & I, We conditioned some, but mainly we worked on some problems we have started to have since Spring. We rode in the dark the first time ever too! Rode with Kaaren and Robyn in the dark back to Kaaren's and Kizz stayed there the night, and I rode him home the next day.<br />
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Kizz at Kaaren's on sunday before we rode back home</div>
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Kizz is getting extra racy and just running along with the other horses (Who are in WAYY better shape!) and not listening to me at all!! So when my dear friend Robyn meets me on trails, we do lots of WORK! When he follows along blindly running, I turn him and make him go towards home! We survive and he starts to learn he has to go at OUR pace not everyone elses!<br />
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one of our first spring rides out with others, and Kizz is very bad with the race brain ! we ride with Kaaren, her son & Robyn up the short cut road to Caverhill. </div>
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Robyn & Bambi on left, Kaaren & Odin on right</div>
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I leave Bambi and Robyn on trail every time, going along with her and then turn and go towards home. The last time we do this even at a CANTER down the rail way! I'm so proud of my guy!!<br />
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We rode in our first Thunderstorm!</div>
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Mine & Kizz's first LD ! The Kiss My Axe Ride!<br />
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Our First LD!!!<br />
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Lucky enough it's home on our trails! How fun is that?!? <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I am helping the lady with the ride and am designated as "prize lady" to pick out prizes for the ride. I have a great time with it! I get a logo made for the ride by a graphic designer and even have it digitized so I can have it embroidered on items! Had it embroidered on two hats! So cute! Had a water bottle with the logo on it, a bunch of buckets, I made a bracelet, and saddle fobs and lots more! </span><br />
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one of the first buckets I did!</div>
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saddle fobs for the ride</div>
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My hubby has his first taste of crewing! I was so happy with how well he helped out! And my daughter got to watch the whole thing from the truck seat !<br />
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My Son Alex helped , he scribed for the vet , it was nice to have him here for it! Ava lee helped too :) what fun!!<br />
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Ava lee in front of Kizz's pen</div>
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Alex & Avalee tired after all their hard work!</div>
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I'm lucky enough that Robyn is entering the ride also, so we will have our buddy to ride with!<br />
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Wednesday before the ride , Kizz and I go mark trails that didn't get done! he's a pro now! haha</div>
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Friday we have to go finish marking more trails (a good chunk of the 50 mile ride we are also having) that didn't get done by the lady taking care of trails. But we hurry on the four wheeler and get back in time to move horses down to the ride site by 4. (Vetting is at 5!) but It's only a few minutes from home.<br />
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I Fence the horses in and get them settled. Robyn arrives not long after and we go for vetting and of course I realize he will have his temperature taken! He's never had it done before so I'm a bit nervous. Of course Kizz is A1 and makes me so proud! He even stands quietly for pulse :-)<br />
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Get horses settled again for bed , give them supper and head home for the night !<br />
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Saturday morning comes and I get up at 5:30, turn on the beans in the slow cooker for the meal. Get my son up who is volunteer for the LD & END :-)<br />
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We ride out with my friend Robyn and her mare Bambi. We were both pretty nervous and of course freezing cold. It was below 0 at 7am heading out in the almost dark!<br />
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Bambi & Kizz were quite hyper at the start, Bambi a wee bit out of control , so kizz fed off that and was super hyper. He even did some little bucking a few times on me. But I kept him in behind Bambi and not racing by, so that is good. Then when we got to the fields before crossing the pave, she worked on getting Bambi to walk and circled a few times. It helped a lot and we did better. We crossed the pave and went in to the little first trail , where we walked the whole thing. Taking us about 20-30 minutes. I'm sure we got way behind the others in the ride here.<br />
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But it being so wet there, we had to walk a whole long section of the trail<br />
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Then on the long dirt 'Clone road' with good footing we asked for a trot but by the end of the clone we were cantering/galloping up every hill. Ughhh.<br />
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That toned racehorse Bambi down a bit haha, so we stayed up in front and led the way at a more quiet pace. We walked a long ways to cool them down. (We walked the entire woods to the first crewing spot, loosing another 20-30 min but at least our horses were cooling out safely and also they were learning it's not all about racing! )<br />
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When we got to the first pit crew stop my hubby was waiting with held breath wondering where the heck we were! Lol (we are about an hour behind everyone else !)<br />
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It is here that hubby realizes we are not going to be in the front runners of this ride ! Haha! While I try to explain where he should find my 2 lost boots back on trail, I'm also trying to explain to him that I'd much rather have my horse walk the entire thing and pass vetting than to get pulled because we galloped the whole thing or slipped on mud/wet grass with hyper horses !<br />
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We mount back up and Hubby follows us in the truck down the 2.5 klms of pave we ride. He even scares a dog off the road that was about to chase us! Thanks Chris!! We get to the next trail , a lovely long stretch of old Railway (now a walking trail) and we trot most of it (I have no boots on, and Robyn's mare is only wearing fronts) so we take it easy on any rocky parts.<br />
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We get in to the hold (home base) about 45 min after everyone else!(Most riders are tacking up to head back out after their pulsing down and 40 min holds!) my son Alexander who is doing timing comes over and gets our papers and writes down our time :-)<br />
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I immediately untack & check Kizz's pulse and he is down to 50 so I go to vetting. Robyn and Bambi follow us over. We get our passes and start our 40 min hold ! Kizz is very quiet and stands nicely for vetting. This is amazing compared to last year! (Although his buddy Bambi is near us so I'm sure that helps !)<br />
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I get a banana ate while we fix boots , get boots back on (this time remember to tape my back countries Velcro shut!) tack up and head out again<br />
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Both horses are super quiet and laid back going out! We trot a lot of the trail along to the scale road. I trot ahead and Bambi keeps pace behind us. We make it to the big hard packed Mill road and Robyn hops off and walks. We walk about 1/4 the mill road , then decide to trot the next half and then walk the last 1/4 as we know we have a long long hill to climb after that. When we get to the hill kizz and I canter ahead and canter all the hill. Bambi follows along behind pretty good.<br />
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We meet hubby at the top and sponge the horses off a bit. Have a drink. Then head back down the hill. We walk most of it down talking and chatting until we get to the Railway again and realize we probably are getting low on time to get back within out allotted 7.5 hours for the 30 miles! Lol. So we trot and canter most of the whole RR back. Taking turns one in front and even ride side by side some.<br />
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At the end of the trail Kizz is happy to go along so we canter the last few miles , he doesn't seem tired at all.<br />
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We stop again at the trail to come in, loosen girths and hand walk in. Kizz is warm so hubby dumps water on him as untack (wow hubby totally has the hang of this!! )<br />
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A few minutes later Robyn has head over to get pulse done. So we head over too. We get the horses pulsed and then vetted. They both pass lovely ! Kizz with all A's on the whole thing. :-)<br />
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We finished! We passed it! We came in last. Haha!! But we did manage to avoid that pesky Turtle award (as we pulsed down before Bambi , I later found out)<br />
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So proud of my boy! Standing so perfectly for vetting, mounting and he eats/drinks well on trail. Listened very good to me. I'm very proud and happy. He deserves time off so we decide not to do the JP the next day (as well, I'm sick so I'm not feeling up to it either!) very happy for my friend Robyn, she and Bambi did great! Not only was it their first LD , it was their first ACTRA ride period!! They did sooo much better than I did at my first ride! I hope she'll attend - few ACTRA rides with me next year!<br />
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Bambi on the left, Kizz on the right :)</div>
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We trailer home since it's only a few minute ride. He gets out of the trailer and canters up the hill to Coby. He doesn't seem too tired out ;-)<br />
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I go back to the ride in time to eat and give out the prizes I donated to the ride. Beautiful shirts, buckets w/logo, cooling neckerchiefs I made, hats with the ride logo embroidered on, and lots of other goodies. I'm proud and happy everyone loves them!<br />
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All in all it's a wonderful first LD. :-) I can't wait for more now!! I am hoping to do a 50 next year.. it will be Kizz & my 3rd year conditioning and he will be 8 years old.. so I think we are ready!<br />
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Some pictures from Spring - our LD Sept 13/14<br />
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Kizz & I spring ride with group </div>
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first conditioning ride after our accident </div>
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my daughter and I have our first little ride together in the mini paddock </div>
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Kizz & I at the stream on Loop 1 for the first time Aug 9/14</div>
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Kizz and I on the RR , it is the best ride of the year </div>
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Kizz has a hard time slowing down, so we do lots of walking rides.. We even take my daughter out on her very FIRST trail ride!!! My friend Amanda brings her sweet mare Bronwyn over to go with us (to make ME feel better about it all ! haha)<br />
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Amanda & Bronwyn, Kizz & I, and Ava lee & Coby</div>
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She even got out on some Rides with her pony Dream!! first ones not being ponied!<br />
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Oct 13, first ride not being ponied on Dream</div>
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Cinna along on one of my fall rides with Kizz</div>
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Ava lee and Dream on our last ride out of 2014~<br />
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<br />CCChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02078026315159098225noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5244074852060364726.post-66457447252716217332014-05-13T11:56:00.003-07:002015-01-03T07:04:11.318-08:00May 13/14 Our first clinic EVER!!!Spring 2014 is HERE!!!<br />
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We get two good rides in ! One down on the RR on the still frozen snow packed Rail way, Kizz is hyper and going down the pave (we can only go on the pave on the ridge, as the woods has sinky deep snow still ) and he spooks at every mail box.. fun fun! heeheh he even gives a little buck or two on the road, he's some frisky!! <br />
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Second ride we head down the pave to Kaaren's and meet Robyn, Kaaren and her daughter and ride on the RR down there a while. (the RR is clear down there!)<br />
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I'm so nervous when the day finally comes to get ready to go! I have NEVER gone to a clinic, have NO IDEA what to expect! Have never had a man coach me before, nor had a coach I didn't know at all before...Haven't had much lessons or training period over the years!!<br />
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I'm excited but also worried I will end up looking foolish, I know I have a lot of faults for all that I have watched and tried to emulate on my own.. I get things done.. survived starting kizz and put over 200 miles on trails on him last year.. I feel GOOD about what we have done so far. Do I really want to go and feel BAD about my riding skills or Kizz's training so far??<br />
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The decision of course was easy... as sensitive & shy as I am, I know it is for the best. It will be a help to us surely. I figure even if I come away with ONE thing I can change or learn then that is worth it! PLUS, getting Kizz out to a new place and riding in a ring with PURPOSE will be good for him. It's not all about racing my love <3<br />
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It rained that first night and it was a little chilly camping out in Amanda's mom's van, but WAYYY better than it would have been tenting! We were the only ones who stayed on the grounds so It's good we were prepared to stay! the property was beautiful! a smaller warm up ring down by the barn, a beautiful large ring, showers and bathrooms, bleachers and announcers booth by the ring up top.. lots of beautiful grass to park on or camp on.. and fenced all the way around with a gate ! loved it!! </div>
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That night before bed we lucked out and met our Coach for the clinic Mitch Harbour. He seemed very nice and down to earth.. easy to talk to! I prepared him for how horrible I might be the next day , telling him Kizz can be a handful and about our little bucking into the canter problem, as well as how I hadn't had much instruction over the years so to be prepared for the worst! HA HA! Was nice to meet him, (and his two cute pooches, Marshal & Ellie) , he's very nice!<br />
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The second ride of the day Kizz was really picking up on this all! a smoother nice trot that I could really post to and work on my position at the same time, I was so amazed how quickly we were getting things done that I hadn't been able to do over the past 3 months by myself in the indoor!! At almost the end of the ride, I was asking for a canter and he jumped off sideways bucking.. I lost my seat and almost gained it back when he gave one last good buck and I went off the left side and rolled.. I laid flat for a bit to check everything.. everything seemed perfectly fine! phew! Got up and there was Kizz looking down at me, as if to say.. HOW DID YOU GET DOWN THERE MOM?!?! DARN horse!! Mitch helped me mount up again and we worked on some more getting a good trot. Quite a few times Mitch yelled out that he wouldn't CHANGE a thing! "YAHOOO!! what an accomplishment for me, with as much as I had to fix to get there!!! so proud! I was beaming everytime he said that. Great ride, I'm soooo happy I went!<br />
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We finished the day out with a yummy warm meal at a local truck stop.. oh was it GOOD! got the chores all done, horses settled for the night and tucked ourselves into the van for the 2nd night. It was early we were both super tired! We each had a cooler, and fell promptly to sleep!<br />
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Sunday morning we wake up and the sun is shining!!! yahooo!!! We get up, get the horses done, go grab some Tim's and get ready for our first ride at 9 again. <br />
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The second day goes even better ,work more on my hands and position, reminds me leg on, look up and ahead.. and my outside rein to be down , tighten inside rein to turn and keep my hands in correct position!! I'm getting there !<br />
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As he notices things I am doing as I ask for the canter, we work on them.. I am "goosing" Kizz when I ask for the canter, He is sensitive and needs less bump and my leg is also too far back.. He shows me a better position for Kizz for asking the canter.. he also Works on me setting back , hands down and for me to still STEER while I ask for the canter!! We do a couple each way and I don't get dumped again lol<br />
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I have so much to work on !! phew! it's been such a great couple days though I'm super happy and excited about this! I got more accomplished in 4 lessons with him, than I did over 3 months riding in the indoor this winter !!! Wow! I'm SOLD :)<br />
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Look at Kizz's position here.. never seen this before haha! </div>
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love this boy, so beautiful and super smart, Mitch got on him at the end of the first ride on the second day so I could see how good he moves, and He said a few times that Kizz was very smart and caught on to something he did with him after only 3 times! He also said he really liked him :) So glad my boy is so likable to someone other than his momma! </div>
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I could go on for another hour about how happy I am about going to this clinic and how much I learned! but I will cut it off now. I really did have a great experience and can't wait to go do another clinic with Mitch! Never had someone explain things in such a way they made such sense and I seen immediate results! Thankful I went!<br />
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Was also happy to get home, get Kizz safely off the trailer, and put away ... and get hugs and love from my hubby and Kiddos!! It was mothers day!! Hubby bbq'd me lovely steaks and made me a lovely meal even including dessert! He finished my chicken coop While I was gone too.. feeling Very loved <3<br />
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Our Accident :(<br />
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Kizz and I have our very first Accident (hopefully our only!) On our very next ride out after the clinic. I ride down the pave to meet up with Robyn. Her mare got spooked by a crazy chained up dog at the crossroads near her house , and ran into the field and cut her leg a bit on some wire in the field. As I ride onto her road I see her standing with her mare ! They are a little shook up but ok. So she mounts up and we go for a short ride on the RR. I ride back with her past the crazy chained dog (also across a wooden bridge on that road, Kizz has never seen before!) we take the outside and ride along by the dog. The horses are fine. Bambi is happy to have another horse along to comfort her I think!<br />
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We ride almost the whole way to Robyn's house, then turn.. On the way back Kizz is PERFECT. We go by the crazy dog and across the old Wooden bridge. Once we got onto the pave we decide to trot a bit. Kizz is still very hyper since he had a very short ride . He picks up a little canter on the pave and I stupidly let him :( As we go around a pot hole in the pave, he spooks a bit, (just that little stutter spook that you wouldn't normally notice!) and his front feet in the boots loose grip and we start to go down!! We slide along the pave for a ways!! I slide along my knee , calf and helmet a bit! When we are stopped I jump up and Kizz hops up! It's not as bad as I thought it was going to be going down!!! but then I see why.. poor kizz has taken the brunt of the fall and has road rash along his stifle area and on his left front elbow area.. he also has a little bit of chafing on his back hooves and fetlocks but not bad. He isn't dripping blood from the two wounds but they're bloody :(<br />
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I walk my poor guy home and access the damage. My husband comes out and gets me the garden hose going so I can hose it and see it better. Robyn arrives and helps me as well. We clean it and put some Wonder dust on them . I turn him out to pasture with his buddy and he gallops off! Guess nothing is too seriously hurt!! BUT over the next few days he does lay around in the grass alot and I think he's probably very stiff.. over 2 weeks his wounds heal and then we get back out for a little ride and he's back in the game!!<br />
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Not long after her mare gets home she wants to go for a ride (bigger balls than me yup lol)<br />
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Kizz amazes me and is super well behaved and trots off to the right down the Maple Ridge Rd . He is very hyper and we barely hold it together, but the spooking at mail boxes and such is gone thank goodness!<br />
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He is <b>great</b> the whole way down other than he is super hyper! At one point he picks up a canter but bucks a little with every stride so I pull him back! brat!!<br />
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I'm holding him back ,and am basically in two point the whole way as I can't even post to his trot! We canter a bit at the bottom of the hill and he is perfect .. it takes us less than 30 minutes to meet up with my buds down almost to Kaaren's...<br />
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They end up behind me as we miss on the trail (I came down much faster than they expected ;) haha )<br />
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We head out on the trail and Kizz seemed to be worried about Kaaren's dog "Riley" even though he didn't mind/notice her <b>once</b> the last ride out we did !!<br />
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This is the 1st time we have rode with 3 other horses... he's quite excited and I have to hold hi back the whole time and one rein stop a couple times... he bouncy canters some too... what a terd! I'm feeling blisters coming on my ring finger on my right hand!! :O<br />
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We don't ride a whole lot longer as Kaaren has to leave to go to work, and I don't really think I should go too much farther as that was quite a long but fast ride down the road to meet them and I have the huge Maple Ridge hill to go back up to get home..<br />
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So Robyn and I split up at the cross roads where she heads to her house.. Kizz whinnies to her mare and her mare whinnies back but Awesome horses that they are , they both behave and move along good for us!!<br />
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I make my way home , Kizz is still super hyper and we canter or trot most of the way.. when we get home he is sweaty but not as bad as that first ride ( I think the deep snow had him worried the last ride) and he seems to cool out quick after we get home.. Was a <span style="color: blue;">GREAT</span> ride!!!!! (especially for our second ride out of the year!!)<br />
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<i><b>Next up is a clinic we will attend a coupe hours away with another friend Amanda and her beautiful war horse "Bronwyn" This is my first Clinic ever and I 'm soooo nervous !! hope I don't make a fool of myself , I know I have horrible habits and haven't had proper instruction since I was ....12 maybe?!?! I NEVER rode English since I was 9 ... I post horrible..</b></i><br />
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Even though these rides aren't as much FUN as she'd like, she sticks to it!! can't wait to take her out on trails and see how much fun she has!<br />
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Meeting up with Kaaren on Odin & Robyn on magic at the ditch off the camp road!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We tack up and head down the Maple Ridge road !</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Kizz leaves quietly and sweetly! Coby doesn't whinny at all! Kizz and I walk slowly down the road. He is looking at everything like he's never seen it before. Haha spooks at a few mail boxes and garbage bins and even gives me some little bucks twice! But we push on. I get to the field at Tim's to go down to the camp road. He is hesitant to walk on the snow /ice that cracks when we step on it but goes ok. Until we get to the bottom of it where the snow is fairly deep and we sink quite a bit. He won't go on (and it's a long road so I figure that doesn't look fun) so I text Robyn telling her I'm heading home and won't be meeting them.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">She replys and says they're right there and to wait they'll head up to meet me. Kizz and I wait. It isn't long until he hears them. He tries to go ahead and meet them but sinks a bit so he gets nervous and shakes some. So I talk quietly and wait. When they get closer we go out onto the road and head towards them. It is only a few feet and we stop sinking so bad! How nice! We meet up and decide to go out onto the rail way and go a ways.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The railway is great footing! Not sinky at all. Just a hard snow. We meet up with some cross country skiers and the horses take offence. Kizz is pretty good other than he is hyper to go go!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Haha them we turn and head back. I go always along with them past my trail to the camp road. He is super hyper. I trot along with Kaaren (both horses doing super slow canters trying their best to be fast but behave. Haha) then I go ahead and kizz isn't happy to stay behind magic he wants to pass. So after we are all walking I do pass and trot ahead. He isn't so excited to race then haha</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We turn and ride back to Kaaren and Robyn and say our goodbyes. First time ever kizz has left horses on the trail without a backward glance even! He didn't care at all!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We made our way home a lot more relaxed than going down! He whinnied and acted silly at the road right at home but I turned and rode away each time until he was quiet. Only one trip and he was good!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Sooo glad our first ride of the year went so well!! I didn't expect the bucking on the pave but it wasn't too bad we survived. And the racy attitude I expected so that was nothing new. He went through a little deep snow the first time ever and left horses on trail to come home the best he ever has!!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Yay for a great first ride of the year!!!</span><br />
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A Picture of my daughter riding her gelding coby over the winter in the indoor :)</div>
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Kizz running with his ladies the first day at Dena's </div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I have our apha gelding over being boarded since Nov 8, so that my daughter can ride in the indoor. It's so cold and bad weather a lot (even though she would ride in any weather!) I get cold watching her and we don't stay long.. I decide I'll switch the horses and ride kizz for a while. By time he comes home, I can start right out on trails!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Kizz gets there and runs a bit with his new buddy Bambi (my friends horse that was here in the fall) they get a long great. Dena - the barn owner tells me Kizz runs around and plays all afternoon!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">That evening my friend Robyn says we should go ride. I figure I might as well get that first ride over with! Especially since he ran and played all day. Maybe he'll be a little more relaxed ha ha</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So we meet over there around 8 and tack up the horses. We take them to the barn and I lunge kizz a bit. Walk a bit one way then a little jog. Then the other direction. He seems nice and quiet so I mount up. He is great. We walk around doing some bending and warming up. He is hesitant to walk along at a nice pace. He keeps stopping and slowing and picking up pace. He won't stay out along the wall at all. But he is well behaved. After a bit I ask him to trot and we trot around a few circles. He is good. We do the other direction and is good. He doesn't bend in the corners at all. Either from being so fat and round or because he just needs the work. Whoa is perfect. We have even rode along a wall or straight line since he was started to saddle there years ago! Dena (barn owner) is impressed with how he's doing :-)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">What a great first ride!! Can't wait to see what he's like tomorrow night. I hope to ride enough that we get some progress with him riding alone and getting a better work ethic from him. And get into shape enough to canter around!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We need to get prepared for our first 50 coming -early June!! If we are ready , it'll be great. On our at home trails! If not we can always do the 30 mile LD. But we are hoping to be ready for the 50!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I get there with Robyn and haul the horses in and tack up , kizz seems quite hyper ! But when we get to the arena and I get on he isn't too bad.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We do lots of bending and walking. Then I trot some. Each direction we trot around the wall. Trying to stay along the wall and bending out in the corners. He does a little better than Sat when he inverted on the corners.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">At the walk he doesn't really stay between my legs he walks all over the place and doesn't stay consistent speed. He walks slow /fast/ stops/. Even at the trot we don't get a good consistent speed.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">He gets nervous when Bambi trots away from us he's scared she's going to leave us alone. He also gets a little racey when we trot and she comes up by us or passes us. But when we are walking or standing and she passes trotting he's fine.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">All in all a good ride. We don't ride long it's freezing out ! We ride 30 ish minutes only. I check my tracker and we only did 1 mile! Haha! Long way to go! Rode 33 minutes only</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Alex takes me over. We meet Robyn there. I tack up and we head to the arena first alone. He acts foolish jumping around and being nervous. I just lunge him and wait for Robyn to come over. Then we ride for quite a while. After he is warmed up pretty good, I ask for a canter each direction. He's quite willing to pick it up but is fairly discombobulated both directions and racing quite bad. But we do a good circle each way.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Then I work on slowing down his jog and bending in the corners. He doesn't keep a very good pace. We whoa and back and do some leg yielding and lateral work. My son Alex comes back and sits on the tractor and watches for a while. After a while Robyn leaves and I stay back and ride kizz alone. He whinnies and spins around some but isn't too bad. We work through it and then when he is quiet and good we head to the barn. Alex turns off the lights for me so I ride back and dismount at the trail to the barn :-)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Robyn & I meet at the barn and tack up and head over. We ride quite a while walking and bending and such. I then trot around working on keeping a consistent pace. Bending in the corners. We work on a few more things. I realize kizz is moving better off my leg and outside rein than he ever did. That's nice! We have a great whoa and back. We canter again a circle each way. He drops it before I get a chance to ask him. I have to do to the right twice. But his left feels much smoother than last ride. We do some more trotting. Robyn rides out and I stay in riding. He acts up but only whinnies once and calms much quicker than Monday. :-) yes! We have a good ride and I feel he has progressed some! We get over 2 miles this ride! 50 minute ride.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Walked and trot well did some bending , backing. Lateral work. We picked up both leads cantering. Kizz decided to buck all the way across the arena when I was trying to get his right side lead. I got him stopped and trot around another circle then asked again.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Right lead not so great but we got it after 3 tries. He seems pretty unbalanced. I think that might be why he started bucking I was off to one side a bit as he was racing and throwing me to the side.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I'm sure we'll get stronger soon. We both need a lot of work! Rode out if the arena first tonight. He didn't mind at all leaving Bambi. Guess him being left behind is his worst problem.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Kizz was perfect during the first part of the ride with Robyn & Bambi. (Shawna rode too a bit) we walked and trotted around and got both leads one circle each. Then after Robyn decided to leave we kept riding as usual. He wasn't too bad until Robyn put Bambi out in the pasture and she yelled a few times. Then kizz started whinnying and spinning worse. They whinnied back and forth a few times. Then Bambi stopped (the other mare got turned out and she wasn't alone)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">But kizz was still bad. He spun around and whinnied and through his head and trot very fast looking out the door. We rode another 30-45 minutes. He was quite sweaty! I was worried he wasn't EVER going to be quiet so I could quit !</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Alex arrived and watched a while. Finally I asked Alex to get me a crop (I sometimes pop him with it when he's screaming to get his attention !) Kizz finally started quieting (as soon as I got the crop he didn't tell again. I didn't push it!! I just did one or two more circles and dismounted. Then I untacked and lead him around waiting for him to stop steaming :-(</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">He was bad again in hand. Yelling and ignoring where I was walking and getting in my space. :-(</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I decided Kizz and I need to do some more ground work. I decided from now on I'm going to do some ground work before riding each night ! I plan to make some obstacles to lead him over and through next ride.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Wish me luck next ride is better! I'm thinking I'm always going to have to deal with kizz's herd bound issues so I might as well stop feeling so hurt by his reactions, keep my cool and just work through them each time. Like a friend Amanda said "it's nothing personal"!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Started back to boot camp last week. Feels so much better to be getting some exercise ! I'm still sore from Tuesdays work out but kizz has had Sun, mon and Tues off. It's time for me to go get over that bad ride. I always feel so down after a bad ride :-( I NEED a good ride tonight please !</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">My friend Amanda came over and went to the barn with me. Robyn is already there and we Walked the horses over.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> I start out with some ground work first. We lunged. Walk,jog and canter each direction briefly. He was super quiet and good.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I ran the lunge rope all over his body. I layed it over his back all over his neck and wrapped it over each leg too. He was perfect. I whipped the lunge around my head in a circle in the air all around the front of him and at each shoulder. He didn't budge or look worried at all!! (I've never did this with him)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I treated him and then went and saddled him up. I added a training fork to his reins to see if it would encourage him to drop his head some. At first you could tell it felt strange to him (even though I had them very long. Barely engaging ) but he's very sensitive to these things normally. So I figured he would notice it for sure.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We walked around warming up doing circles. Then we trotted around and did some smaller circles in the corners (he usually lags and stops when we do smaller circles ) he did great!! He was perfect and quiet. We picked up his right lead first. He raced a bit going into it but he picked it up fine. We only did half a circle or so. Then we did the other direction - and did at least one full circle and he was a bit more steady than he's been. Maybe gaining some balance ?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Robyn and Bambi leave , we walk on and do some small circles walking. He is A1. Doesn't whinny , doesn't spin around, barely even looks her direction!!! I'm so super amazed. I have no idea why but he is the best he's been EVER!! I only do a few circles and get off. Even when I'm on the ground gathering things and such, he's perfect!! We walk back the barn, untack and head home</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hahaha I'm pretty sure my friend Amanda thinks I'm completely nuts since everytime she's around kizz he acts like a perfect gentlemen.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Met Robyn at the barn tonight and tacked up the horses. Walked over to the barn and lunged kizz a bit. I was trying out a new haf pad with the strange bottom so thought I'd be safer to lunge first ;-) he seemed fine and quiet. (He wouldn't pick up his canter either lead though. But didn't seem sore. Just seemed very lazy )</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Got on and rode around. We jogged (actually jogged for real!) around quite a bit! We did some lateral work and he basically side passed for me across the arena. He's responding really well now that he knows what I want. He turned on haunches excellent too.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We worked on walking 10 steps them trotting 10 steps over and over. He started to figure out what we were doing by time we quit.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Walked and bending lots. Whoa, backing, turn on haunches , lateral work. Was really dusty so didnt do much trotting. Just a little and each lead canter. Left lead again he did a little buck. But was fine after. Kept the right lead up longer and better and got him out on the wall somewhat. Got off and walked over a mat while Robyn went to barn. He wouldn't do his back feet for quite a while but finally did. :-) was nervous of the lunge whip. :-S</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Rode a few times a week for the last few weeks, had a great time riding with my friend Robyn!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">snow is HANGING ON in the fields.. ..... who knows when we will get out on trails :(</span>CCChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02078026315159098225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5244074852060364726.post-56875559904720323732013-11-21T06:30:00.002-08:002013-11-21T06:31:18.531-08:00Nov. 20th .... a year ago todayIt's exactly a year ago today, Kizz and I do our very first Trail ride.. a tiny short ride, but the first one and we got it done.. and it turned out to be a GREAT year for Kizz and I .. so amazing!!<br />
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What a bumpy ride it has been! But truth be told, it has been a treasure!! When I think back on how far we have come it is amazing to me!! My goal for this year was to just ride Kizz out on trails with another horse and survive!! Not only did we do that , but we became confident enough to do trails alone!! We even got 53 ACTRA (Competitive ride miles )miles in the Club this year!! HOW exciting is that! I'm so super proud! : D</div>
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I can only imagine what we will accomplish next year!!! So here is to another year of the roller coaster ride of our "Trail to Happiness " !!!!</div>
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Kizz and I Dec 2012 (our second ride out)</div>
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Nov 2, 2013 (happily riding bareback out in a field -Just riding him-walking through a field was a fear of mine!)</div>
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I'm also super excited later, when I see these pics of me.. I can really tell I'm getting down in weight!! yahoooo!!! </div>
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Robyn comes early and heads out, I tack up Kizz while waiting for my husband to get home... He waits in the wash rack all tacked up while Robyn & Bambi ride out, He IS NOT happy!! He whinnies and yells for them. A bit later Chris arrives so I go mount up and head out. He is pretty hyper to go and we catch up to Robyn & Bambi fairly quick. We ride along together a bit, but it's apparent that both horses need to ride alone!! Kizz keeps bucking on me when I hold him back from rushing to catch up to Bambi if they get ahead of us any little bit!! Her mare keeps whinnying for Kizz too :(</div>
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We decide to split up.. I head down to the mowed trail while she rides up on the ant hill road a bit. Both horses whinny back and forth and Kizz is at his worst!!<span style="color: red;"> The same as he was back on my "worst" ride where I walked home along the pave :( He has himself in such a tizzy he is foamy with sweat :(</span></div>
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He whinnies and spins on me (luckily no bucking though) but we push on and get down to the logging road.. We trot all the way down the logging road to the clone road. Then we walk all along that to cool down a bit. We turn after a while (he is being good) and he picks up the pace coming back towards home. But I make him walk until we get to the logging road where we pick up a nice canter. I don't have to hold him back as he isn't rushing to bad and is a good boy. We slow down and trot a bit, then walk the rest of the way home. Coming down the access road he whinnies (getting replies from Bambi) and unlike usual lately when I get grumpy about it, he still keeps it up :( </div>
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CCChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02078026315159098225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5244074852060364726.post-67775462209580358122013-11-21T05:57:00.004-08:002013-11-21T05:57:43.371-08:00My Daughter starts riding full time!A little post about my Daughter Ava lee & her gelding Coby! We boarded Coby out at an indoor for the winter so that my daughter could spend the winter riding him. She really hopes to do trails next year on him!<br />
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Here he is settling in over at Dena's .. he's the horse on the left.. although it's hard to tell he looks so much like the appaloosa gelding (his new buddy) Wander!!<br />
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She's been riding some since she was 2 and more when she was 3, than she did this year, as I've been so busy with Kizz!! So I'm excited for her to get lots of riding in now! She's riding a few times a week, and her and Coby make such a good team! they're doing great!<br />
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I had to buy her some new winter riding clothes.. me as well!! we never usually ride in the winter!!<br />
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CCChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02078026315159098225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5244074852060364726.post-80022048359954561262013-11-21T05:50:00.000-08:002013-11-21T05:50:20.264-08:00Nov , 11 Holiday Ride... brrrr<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Robyn is excited to get out riding her mare so we plan to go out again on the holiday. It's freezing cold and snow on the ground now! But we tack up and head out. We ride down the driveway together and on the pave she does up the access road and I head straight. I go in the field and along the tree line. I get to the little rock wall that cross the tree line and wait for Robyn. Isn't long and I see her. We then both ride together through the mowed trail and take a right up to the ant hill road. We go down the pave (605) and then go in to the fields down to the RR. Her mare slips a bit as she's walking where Robyn doesn't want her to and she has a little moment of acting up but she's fine and continues on. We trot a little on the camp road and then again on the RR a bit. It's getting dark and cold so we just go up past the big ditch on the RR, up to the hydro line and then turn and head back. We are cold when we hit the pave again so we ride the rest of the way on the pave.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The horses were good! We probably did around 6-7 miles?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Kizz was completely dry when I un tack which is good because it's so cold out! (And with his winter coat In he sweats bad now!)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Happy with how things are going. I plan to ride out completely alone next time and do some work solo on the clone road then come back and meet Robyn and ride a bit with her. Hopefully Kaaren can meet up with us too!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hope Kizz is good going out alone this next ride!</span><br />
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It's freezing cold out and dark early so no riding for me since last ride!<br />
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My friend brings her new horse Friday! She bought an off the track TB mare. She's a sweety! We plan to go for a ride the next day!<br />
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Saturday rolls around and a trailer picks up my gelding Coby to take to the boarding stables not far from me - that we are keeping him at for the winter so my daughter can get some coaching and use the indoor.<br />
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So Kizz isn't very happy with his buddy gone! He's yelling most of the day. And just when he's starting to settle a bit. A family comes and buys our mini mare's filly. So then the mare is yelling and Kizz is replying. What a day to choose to ride. It's also windy and cold! But Robyn is excited to ride her mare and I want to go too!<br />
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When I first ask for the canter he rushes so I pull him back and he gives a buck but settles in to a nice canter and we go along all the way up to Kaaren and Robyn. We slow nicely when we meet them and turn and walk along with them. He's not jiggy anymore thank goodness.<br />
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here's some of the great pics she got!!<br />
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He's great!!No yelling not even looking back. We head up the access road.. but the fields will tell me how he's going to be.. that is where he always acts up.<br />
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We get to the fields and trot on through them, Cross the rock wall, and walk through the next field. <span style="color: blue;">HE is A1!!! Doesn't make a sound or fuss!!!! AH!! SO happy!!!</span><br />
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We trot a bit through the wooded trail but walk very slowly down at the bottom of the mowed trail as its frozen mud and slippery a bit. We get through it fine without him rushing or upset at all!<br />
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We trot some on clone road, canter a bit but mostly walk , he's very settled! I find that when I post on his right lead, it's short striding bad like he does sometimes..<br />
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When we meet Kaaren & Magic he steps it up a notch, and he no longer seems to be short striding on that front right. We continue on to pave... go down pave and cut in road that goes to RR<br />
go along that and check out a little traiil off to the side to the hydro line while we chat.. The puddles are big and frozen along there and him crunching down through the ice doesn't bother him like I thought it would!<br />
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She takes me up as far as the horse at blaneys , as I'm worried it will see us and starting crashing through the woods and yelling and have Kizz upset! I don't know how he'd react and on the pave isn't good!<br />
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Kizz seems happy to go on home, so I trot off... We even pick up a canter for a ways :) <br />
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A ways off we hear a whinny but he doesn't care, we keep going!!<br />
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trot some , wak some eat grass he''s excellent!<br />
Almost home he see's Coby and when Coby whinnies, he does one, but other wise A1!!<br />
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I tie in wash rack to cool with his blanket and give him supper and snacks ...good boy!!!<br />
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We waited a little bit but Kaaren and Robyn arrived not long after.. Then we did a pre-ride and head out!<br />
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We trotted some more and even at one point Amanda and B trotted on ahead of Kizz and I and I held him back and he was fine!<br />
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At one point along the short narrow trail between the Clone road (logging road) and the pave before Kaaren's (cross road) Amanda and B got a bit ahead of Kizz and I and he wanted to run and catch up (even though Coby was behind us) and he pitched a fit! He bucked and kicked but I yelled and turned him around and then he was ok. We continued on. but he did it 2x though! Little bugger!<br />
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When we did arrive at the part of the trails where we can see Kaaren's.. everyone was having their halfway break and waiting.. we didn't go in, so we continued on.. It was only a few minutes and the group caught up and flew by us again.. but later on we noticed we had a few people missing! Amanda went back while Allie & I waited on trail.. She finally found them as they were on their way back (they noticed they'd went the wrong way) our ribbons had turned from orange to yellow (and we forgot to point that out.. oops!)<br />
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When the group caught up to Allie and I , a few stopped and chatted. Someone was saying how Beautiful Kizz is :) then the rest flew on by us.. haha We lost sight of them pretty soon.<br />
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Then in a bit, Amanda and B (along with a young girl on a paint horse) caught up. We all rode nicely along the RR together (at this point my cell died , so no more pics from me )<br />
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Later on along the trail someone mentioned the young girl on the paint horse was only 14! I was so surprised! I asked her how old her horse was and she said 4! and this was their FIRST TRAIL ride!!! I was soooo surprised!! they were like old pros!!! we all stuck a little closer to her after that! He refused a ditch crossing a little bit but as soon as Amanda and B crossed I said PUSH him on!! and he went right through! and then at the ditch to the camp road at Tim Blaneys, he crossed that no problem as well! What a SWEET little horse! and lovely rider! Was so nice to have met them :)<br />
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We trotted a bit up through the fields at Tims and I even got a video of Coby's "gallop" for Allie (slow slow lope lol)<br />
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We took a short cut and head down the pave and up the ant hill road , to get back around the same time (if not still way after) a lot of the other riders. No traffic came and we all did fine .<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">The last 2 rides in the last 2 weeks I have rode out WITH a horse, I'm sure Kizz will give me a hard time the next few rides, so we are going to get them over with soon! I'm going out Thursday I hope!! meeting Kaaren on trail too! Wish me luck!!</span><br />
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So it's calling for heavy rains Sunday, So we cancel the ride until Next Saturday! Amanda and I decide to go out on Sat since it's so nice out and she won't be able to do Sat ride here plus the group trail ride we plan to do Sunday next weekend. So she comes Saturday and we ride out. I tack up almost all before she arrives. I decide we might as well make the best of it and I get Chris to get us 4 coolers haha ! (I pour them into water bottles and hand her one when she tacks up )<br />
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We finish up and mount. We head down the driveway with Kizz looking at her mare the whole way.. haha he's in LOVE! A beautiful black mare! (we hadn't ever rode alone with a new horse before that he'd never met ! ) So this will be interesting to see how he does! I wonder how he'll react with her behind us.. will be be snaky and just keep looking?<br />
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We get out on the access road and walk along. Both horses are super good and quiet ! the fields are the same, Kizz gets strange at the rock wall crossing! I think the trail marking ribbon is wierding him out! haha!<br />
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But we go through first and she follows , we head to the trails and the horses walk along side by side well. We go single file through the muddy spots and Kizz is really good! he's not looking behind constantly! We go up to the ant hill road and then up to the camp with a view , cross over to the fields behind Merle Wallace's and go down and cross the road there straight across to the camp road. (Her horse doesn't have much road riding experience yet) We do fine! We walk and chat down through those fields and down through the camp road there are some new logging piles which Kizz looks at like it's going to eat him.. haha but he survives. Walking along makes for much more stuff to SEE .. haha<br />
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We get to the ditch and Amanda says, she 's never crossed a ditch like this before with Bronwyn. The walk across it like it's nothing though! yay! then we go along up the RR, We get quite a ways and decide we are doing fine (her horse is fairly out of shape) but we are just walking most of it, and have time, so we do the WHOLE trail ride that was marked out for the group ride. We trot some on the RR (some with her ahead and some with me ahead ) and they both do great! Kizz encounters some new things on trail (a culvert stuck out that they have to REALLY step over and a new spot of running water they have to cross) and they both do awesome!! We go through the really cute little trail that gets you to the logging road and I grab some pics!<br />
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The horses are doing great and we are having a great old time! I can't BELIEVE that after 6? days of no RIDING , Kizz isn't hyper trying to go ahead or Jigging the whole way, he walks along nicely!! even when we trot it's a quiet drag your feet kinda trot! Amazing after the race brain horse I had last ride!! HAHA!!<br />
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I can't explain enough how wonderful he was!! I NEVER imagined I would have SUCH a QUIET RELAXING ride on Kizz.. EVER! well it was wonderful! A great experience!!<br />
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We talked on the logging road and I told her what I had experienced in the ACTRA club so far. How it works at the rides and such. She was asking me how I would normally do this trail , and I said probably the few times we had Trotted, would be the few times we would have WALKED. She asked if I would have cantered or galloped any, and I said probably a few times along the rail way if Kizz wanted. Also on a few little hills on the logging road I would have. I feel comfortable picking a spot to Canter and deciding where to end before I even pick it up.<br />
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When we came to a little knoll she said, if you wanted to canter we could try it.. So we trotted on ahead (I wasn't sure if he WOULD pick it up, he was so laid back and not wanting to leave his new Girlfriend!! haha)<br />
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But as soon as he heard Amanda and B trotting up quickly on us in behind he picked up his canter and we looked back and they were cantering too. I looked back and Amanda had the biggest smile! I think she was outright laughing actually! We cantered the whole way to the top and then pulled back, Kizz was great , no race brain at ALL. FUN FUN!<br />
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We continued along walking and chatting , we laughed it up a lot. Fun times! (coolers were yummy too!)<br />
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We cantered up a hill once more and it went great we had a blast.. then continued on walking the rest of the way. When we got to the lower part of the mowed trail that is all muddy and sloped, we walked slowly and of course I lost a back boot! I got down and got it and tied it to my saddle. I got him next to a stump and remounted and that's when Amanda and I both pointed out I should have removed the other one.. haha<br />
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I got about halfway through the mud hole when She said I 'd lost the other.. I said , oh well, I'm coming back for it Tomorrow.. So we head on home. We walked on home. Through the rock wall Kizz was fine, we came out the other side and waiting for Amanda and B. When they came through , we continued on, Kizz spooked (I think at the ribbons on the trees there again lol) but then we continued on. The access road he whinnied a quiet little half whinny but I told him No, and he didn't again. He was happy that he had a buddy anyway I think :)<br />
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We got home and my wonderful hubby was throwing on some burgers on the BBQ for us! YUM!<br />
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It was close to dark but hubby grabbed a few pics of us :)<br />
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<br />CCChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02078026315159098225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5244074852060364726.post-20981570219610722972013-10-21T04:35:00.003-07:002013-10-21T05:13:33.517-07:00No riding all week :( but we get new boots and the scales are going down too!It is getting dark so early it's hard to get out any during the week! I don't get out any during the week on either horse! :( but I do get Kizz's new back boots in the mail! We clean up and try them on. He doesn't mind them at all. So proud of him! (new things used to really blow his mind!)<br />
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<span style="color: red;">I'm also down another 5 lbs!! I'm so happy!</span>! All this happiness and riding has really been good for me! I start back to boot camp Monday too, so I can't wait to see how much better I can do! <span style="color: blue;">I'm down to 150lbs</span>, from 178lbs! I really would like to get to 130lbs :) for my height of 5'1 that isn't asking much I don't think!<br />
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here's my handsome dude in his new back boots :) I trot him around the driveway and they seem to stay on well! But I know they will probably pull off in the mud. I need to get gators to add to them asap!<br />
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<br />CCChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02078026315159098225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5244074852060364726.post-47302030105550736652013-10-21T04:29:00.001-07:002013-10-21T04:30:11.278-07:00Oct 13, Ride with 2 horses.. RACE BRAIN :( <br />
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So , its been a while since we've went out with 2 horses... but he's always been fine when Robyn and Kaaren rode Magic & Odin with Kizz , so I'm not concerned at all.. Well I have plans at 3pm so when they call to meet, I decide I'll hurry and meet them along the RR and then head home after riding with them along the RR a bit. So Kizz and I leave and go right straight down the 605 to the camp road and go down to the RR , We trot up along the RR and meet them around where the hydro line crosses the RR. He is hyper to see them. We pull in behind but he starts acting funny so I put him in between Magic & Odin, he's much better.. they decide to come up through my way so that works for me.. I can head home after we get to my turn off. We go through the camp road and into the fields and they trot, well Kizz picks up a trot but wants to race and tries to canter, well I pull him back and he bucks and kicks up a fuss! I yell and pull him back. Kaaren slows and after we talk a bit, she tells Evan to go off again .. So Kizz and I can try again. Magic leaves Odin and I trotting (we trot too) and he just wants to race ahead. This happens a few times, then he finally trots beside odin being semi-ok. We get to the top of the fields to the 605 . We cross the road and let them eat grass there while we chat about how she dealt with Magic with race brain all his life. It gives me hope that at least I will survive it!! We continue on through the trails. We stop and talk to the property owner at the camp on the top of the hill with the great view. I grab some pics of the trail buddies :)<br />
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He isn't too bad other than I have to hold him back most of the ride. When we get down to the mowed trail they stop and I continue on home. He leaves them very well ! We trot down the mowed trail and walk across the fields.. He stops to eat in one of the fields and I'm SO impressed with this! I get off and let him munch a while. :) He does keep looking back looking for his buddies though but doesn't call for them or anything. What a GOOD boy!<br />
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looking back for his buddies while he munches</div>
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I loose track of time and get a call that Robyn is at my house waiting for me! So I mount up and we trot on home. He only whinnies ONCE in the access road right beside home. He is really good. HE isn't hot at all so I un-tack and leave. I have a LOT to think about!! What will I do? How will I handle his RACE brain??? Is he going to be horrible on our group trail ride the next weekend ?? There will be 12-15 horses !!!<br />
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<br />CCChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02078026315159098225noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5244074852060364726.post-77566935321987919292013-10-21T04:14:00.003-07:002013-10-21T04:30:40.661-07:00Oct 11, Fri- perfect ride alone! down the RR.. hyper hyper boy!<br />
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Friday evening I decide to tack up and ride out alone... I hadn't been on Kizz since our Sunday ride last and he's probably going to be pretty hyper. I tack up and as soon as Chris gets home I hop on and head out. I tell him I am going to the logging road to trot some. I leave all the horses out and hope for the best. We leave and all horses are GREAT! No yelling and nothing. We don't go up the access road , rather I go down the pave farther and head up into the fields across from the diary farm and head through those to our mowed trail. For leaving and going out a completely new trail for Kizz,<span style="color: red;"> he is AWESOME! </span>We trot the whole way. Once we come to the mowed trail we walk some where it's muddy. He is pretty hyper I can tell from the way he's hitting the ground with his feet!<br />
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We get to the hilly wet part of the mowed trail and I can tell something is down there.. Kizz keeps acting strange and doesn't want to go, I decide I best turn.. After I turn I can tell I was right, Something WAS down there because the whole way back out Kizz is snakey, turning and looking behind us. I know it's way too early to head back home -we only just got out! and Kizz is very hyper still. So I call my hubby to tell him about our course change and head down towards the pave. We will go down to the RR. The whole way Kizz is perfect. He has lots of energy but he's being very good. We get down to the RR and trot along it. I am a bit nervous as it's late in the evening and it gets dark so quick! So I don't know how far we will go.. I decide to go until he calms and settles some. We trot and even canter some along the RR. We make it to the pave in MILLVILLE!!! wow! I'm so happy I get a pic!<br />
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He bites some grass by the road and then we turn and head back. We trot and canter some. He is A1, Still hyper though! We turn off at our ditch and head up the Camp road . Halfway up it I hear the tractor! When we get to the tractor and the property owner he turns it off and we chat some. Kizz is pretty good! He wants to <span style="color: red;">GO</span> but he stands fairly well. When we do head off we trot up the Camp road and I let him canter up a hill a bit. He lets out a couple little bucks so I pull him back to trotting.<br />
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We trot the rest of the way home! He is Still hyper coming home and we did 9? almost 10 Miles!? ALONE<br />
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What a guy. I untack and lead him around letting him eat grass (after his supper) and dry him out a bit before putting him away. <span style="color: blue;">What a GREAT ride, I'm SO SO proud of us!!!!!! He was great!!! AH! love this!!!!!!!</span><br />
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