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cantering!!

Cantering is so fun!! Once you get it it is sooo cool.
Here's a song Joshels mob made up to help you canter, the tune is row row row your boat.
'roll roll roll your hips gently with your horse merrily merrily merrily merrily rocking back and forth... sorry I kinda forgot some of it but that's the start.
Anyway, it's really annoying when you keep losing your stirrups!! but practice will make them stay in!
Yesterday I did some cantering, it was my first cantering lesson, which was great because in all the others we'd do a little bit of cantering and then we'd move onto something else, and you don't have time to like get INTO the canter. Unfortunately my friend wasn't there because she just loves cantering!
We also went on a trail ride before that, Me and Rachel (the instructor) we cantered down the driveway which was FUN and the I had a FAILED attempt at opening the gate hehe :) the we walked and trotted down the road. We got to a dead end after a few minutes, so we turned around and rode back to Joshels.
I then did the cantering lesson (more above)

Quiz

Here's a fun short quiz about how much you know about horses. (It's made by me)
please comment you answers

1. What is a curry comb used for?
a) picking up horse pooh
b) picking out hooves
c) removing dirt and grime from a horses coat
d) to hit a horse when it is really naughty

2. What is a saddle?
a) something you sit on when you ride a horse
b) something you use to wash a horse
c) something you use to steer a horse
d) something you brush a horse with

3. Why do horses need to be rugged?
a) so they don't get cold
b) to keep them clean
c) to flatten the rosettes in a horses mane to make them look neater
d) all of the above

4. Why would someone want to lunge a horse before they rode the horse?
a) for the fun of it
b) to get rid of some of the energy in the horse so that it is easier to control the horse when your riding
c) to teach the horse a lesson because it's being naughty
d) because it's just something you do before you ride

5. What colour is bay?
a) yellowy with black mane, tail and legs
b) brown
c) grey with dappled
d) brown with a black mane, tail and legs

6. Why do you ride or hang out with horses?


That's the end!!











The answers, please don't look until you have done the quiz
1. c)
2. a)
3. d)
4. b)
5. d)
6. YOU answer that one

Gymkana

The gymkana was soooo much fun!! My friend Renee won like 6 1st place ribbons and 1 2nd ribbon!!! My other friend Maddison Won Champion of the led line!!!! Helina and Sinead both did really well, everyone had fun which was the main thing. At the end there was a fancy dress comp. Riva - May dressed up as dorothy from the wizard of oz and her horse Pedro was the tin man. They looked fantastic!! Riva was so cute in her red sparkly shoes!!!

GUESS WHAT??

Guess what happened last week at sat club?????



I GOT KILLED BY COLA (the horse I was jumping in a previous post)
Yea I was jumping him like 50cm and I kinda fell of (lamos bamos :) and sprained my ankle. I like couldnt walk properly all day :/ ahahaha and I had a sleepover that night!! Anyways I survived and another sat is coming!!

AWESOMENESS PICS

I know I know this has nothing to do with horses but aren't these pics just awesome??

ME JUMPING AND CUTE WIDDLE CHICKS

Me jumping Cola!!
Nawwwww look at the cute widdle chicks!!!

2moro I have sat club and there is a gymkana at Freds Pass. If you wanna go watch or compete I am sure you can go or enter. My friends will be participating in the gymkana, I hope they do well and have a whole lot of fun!!! Maybe see you there!!

Run ponies run!!

BARRELS

pics

B... BB..... BARRELSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

OMG barrels was so fun everyone did so well!! Little Cola had his first barrels and he did so well without any bucking!!!! Becka and Bri Bri did awesome as usual and Elley went well. Renee did well and did a nice canter home. Riva-May was the most awesomest of them all!! Everyone had fun!!!!!!!!!! Shaylah did really well on snackpack, Samo on icecream went really good.
One of the best Barrels I reckon!!

CUTE!!

BARREL this coming sat

Are you going to barrels? or even better are you participating?
I hope you are it's a lot of fun, even if your just watching!! Joshels is competing Yay!!!

Monday lesson :D

YAY its Monday and it's a public holiady!! Did you know that today is every horses birthday!! So even if a foal was born yesterday today it is considered a year old! Funny aye!

Anyways today I rode Ice-cream, she was pretty good... We had a different teacher, I forgot her name hehe :)Elana rode Marble.
We did sit trotting, diagonals and figure of eights all in 45 mins!!! The lesson felt like it went on for an hour which is a good thing. Oh yea we also did some cantering. Ice-cream actually cantered but she and I both suck at turning corners and we ended up cantering off... to the round yard and to stables 2. lol quite a lesson. It was fun though.