Wow! I can't believe we have already finished one week of Second Session. The barn has been hopping with lots of girls on "ponies". The jumping arena has full lessons every hour. Amy has been working on bending lines and cloverleaf patterns to crossrails. In our middle arena, girls are working on their posting trot, two point and in a few lessons, their first cross rails with Sarah. Ellie, Princess of the Small Arena, has the girls of Treehouse already trotting up the hill in two point.
Our Barn Rats are very experienced this session and are quite good at keeping the horses moving in and out of lessons. The Rats get the horses out, tacked up, and connected with their rider at the beginning of lessons. At the end of each lesson, the Rats take each horse from the rider and "strip and flip" them as I say. They pull the saddle and bridle, sponge the horse off, fly spray them and then ride bareback back to their pen. That's the fun part!
Amy has taught a "how to longe a horse" lesson during her Specialty group and today she will continue on with bandaging. Sarah has Marissa and Laura working on their Level 4 ribbons for CHA and Ellie took the minis for their first spin this session. As always, Annie, our beautiful draft mare, is happily keeping our vaulters on board and looking forward to the Talent Show next Thursday night.
Pictures of all the riders will be up shortly on our website! Keep a look out!
Saturday, July 11, 2009
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