Anywhos...let's catch up with the most important thing that has happened recently: Pass' first show.
Once again, Pass shocked me. We went to a small fun show, which I figured would be perfect to take him and see how he was going to act before I spent the big $$ for a show. He was an angel. Stood at the trailer between shows unaccompanied and unsupervised without any problems between classes. Where I was most proud of him though was in the ring...
Our dressage test was wonderful, we had a few issues with a corner of the arena at first because there were people sitting kind of hidden under some trees, but after some coaxing he got over it easily. The test was lovely with good movement and decent transitions. He stepped out of the ring once (one side was poles on the ground) but other than that it was great and he scored really well...ending up with a 62%. Below is a picture of my cute little dressage horse.
After dressage we did a couple hunter flat classes and of course Pass kicked some butt. If eventing doesn't work out he would be a great junior hunter and I fully anticipate taking him to a a couple hunter shows and doing the pre-green or adult-amateur classes. I was just hopeful he'd behaved and worked to make this a positive experience for him. It was a success.
Finally we did a few jumping classes. They only offered "jumper" classes up to 2'6" that were based on time and faults. I did not want to stress him by flying around a tiny indoor (it had started to rain). Therefore I settled back I rode the course like an equitation class and tried to keep him steady and get all of our leads. Due to the indoor being a little dark, the pictures did not turn out great, but I did get one that looks cute and shows our nice hunter silhouette.
We did not win these classes, however I was happy with Pass' performance. He maintained a good pace, found almost all his distances, and our leads were not terrible :) Overall, I was a happy mom.
Other than the show, there's not really any other news beside my maitenence of Pass. This has came in the form of dental work for his hillbilly front teeth and a chiropractic adjustment that he seemed to enjoy. Hopefully soon I'll be able to get a bag of Cool 100 and start filling him out so he looks like the fat little horse he used to be :)
Tomorrow I hope to have a very exciting update as Pass will travel tomorrow morning to his first-ever cross-country schooling :) How he does will decide what level we event at next weekend at his first schooling event. He will either do Beginner Novice (with 2'6" fences) or Novice (with 2'11" fences) I would love to do Novice, but once again, I do not want to stress him right out of the box and if he's struggling with Novice fences tomorrow we will do Beginner Novice. There are plenty of opportunities to move up levels this summer.
Check back soon!
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