Monday, October 27, 2008

Horse show yesterdayyyy. =]

Buster is a freaking saint. He was soooooooooo good yesterday. Since it was a schooling show at my barn, and they used mostly the lesson horses, he got ridden like a million times, and almost everyone used him for their jumping class, because he's like, the only decent jumper we have as a schoolie right now. But he still behaved all day, and he carried everyone around with no problem.
Our first class was Equitation, and he did so well. He got his leads and everything and he moved wicked nice for me. We got 1st. =]
Next classes was pleasure. He did really well in this class too. Only problem was that he had a little issue picking up the canter, which was my fault. He got really unbalanced in the corner, and he couldn't pick it up right, so it took us the whole long side of the arena to pick it up. We placed 3rd in that class.
After that was command. He did everything right when I asked, and he did all his canter departs like, right when I asked. We got 1st in that class as well. =]
Then our last class was x-rails. He was a little fast when we did lines, so he took off kind of big in those, but I can't blame him. He was probably wicked tired and sick of jumping. >.<>

We ended up getting Champion! =D It was my first champion or reserve champion or anything like that. I was so proud of Buster. =] He's such a good boy. <3

Walking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPl-ZyZAvnc
Trotting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n684vDWGohQ
Cantering
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iv4ILzrBWw
Jumping. I know that I'm not consistent in this course, I switch from the trot to the canter. My plan was to do the whole thing at a trot, but he likes to canter in between jumps, so I kind of just let him go with. If I interfered with him right before the jump, he would've gotten all screwy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ-z2CwyYZs

I might put up videos of some of the whole classes if I get a chance to upload them. But they're all like 6 minutes long, so idk when I'll get a chance to, because those will take forever to upload. >.<

Pictures will be up at some point.

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