A few horsie tidbits
May. 5th, 2009 10:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
callistotoniOne of our Oerthan horse-people posted this link to the WK EQ list. It is super cool and worth watching:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5895K-Xjupk
Now *that's* how I'd like to see people ride our games. ;-) And it's nice to see the Spanish horses get to show off -- their strength at "compression" is not as appreciated in modern dressage, which favors the warmbloods and thier extension capabilities.
A brief Brandee/Barn update: Brandee's pretty much been on vacation for almost a week and a half. Between my schedual and my being sick and my trip north I hadn't ridden for 1.5 weeks at least, and Brandee had not been ridden since last Monday. She's gotten out every day, just not ridden. Anyway I rode her last night and between her being crabby (possibly in heat -- hard to tell with her) and heavy in the hands/bargy and me having to remember how to ride it was a bad night. But tonight it was all good. Brandee was back to her well behaved self and I got my position back and we had a really good ride. Go figure.
Life is what it is right now, and I know that it will all be OK, but I still worry a little about Brandee. She's gone down from 2 training rides a week to one, which has to double as my lesson. And for the next month or so I can't ride as much as usual because of everything else going on. Marguerite, of course, is not riding while pregnant, and who knows what will happen when she has 2 small children to take care of. Brandee's been doing so well and has such good muscle on her, I hate to see her lose ground. I love my paint princess, and I want her to get on as well as she deserves. Sigh. I know, I'm a neroutic horse mom...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5895K-Xjupk
Now *that's* how I'd like to see people ride our games. ;-) And it's nice to see the Spanish horses get to show off -- their strength at "compression" is not as appreciated in modern dressage, which favors the warmbloods and thier extension capabilities.
A brief Brandee/Barn update: Brandee's pretty much been on vacation for almost a week and a half. Between my schedual and my being sick and my trip north I hadn't ridden for 1.5 weeks at least, and Brandee had not been ridden since last Monday. She's gotten out every day, just not ridden. Anyway I rode her last night and between her being crabby (possibly in heat -- hard to tell with her) and heavy in the hands/bargy and me having to remember how to ride it was a bad night. But tonight it was all good. Brandee was back to her well behaved self and I got my position back and we had a really good ride. Go figure.
Life is what it is right now, and I know that it will all be OK, but I still worry a little about Brandee. She's gone down from 2 training rides a week to one, which has to double as my lesson. And for the next month or so I can't ride as much as usual because of everything else going on. Marguerite, of course, is not riding while pregnant, and who knows what will happen when she has 2 small children to take care of. Brandee's been doing so well and has such good muscle on her, I hate to see her lose ground. I love my paint princess, and I want her to get on as well as she deserves. Sigh. I know, I'm a neroutic horse mom...
