Our first show!

Hello everyone! I have exciting news. Constable and I went to our first
schooling show yesterday! We did great! Our first two classes were
Equitation and Pleasure, and we got first in both of those. Next was
Hunter, and we placed fourth. we then went in Hunter Hack x poll, and
came in second out of eight. We finished with a fifth in two ft Hunter
Hack. It really was a good day. Constable was all braided up, and
pretty clean considering he's a grey. Me and my mom gave him a bath the
night before, but he managed to get a little dirty overnight anyways.
We got most of it off. He behaved very well, and the only slight
problem we had was when we were going over a few jumps before our
hunter hack class. He gave a few little bucks after a fence, but
nothing major. Next weekend we're going in a cross country clinic, so that should be fun. I'll keep you posted on how it goes. Until then, everyone have a good week!

HELLO EVERYONE!

Hello! I haven't posted in a long time, so i have a lot to write about. As you can imagine, I've been very busy with Constable. He's dong great, and ill get some new pictures up as soon as possible. We're working on getting him to move off my leg more, because he's not as responsive as we'd like. I've been moving his front end around his back end, and vise versa. I've also been doing spiral circles and other exercises to get him to move off my leg. He's really making progress. I've got him under himself and on the bit more, and he's going into a pretty nice frame now. I ride him as much as possible, usually four or five times a week. He's jumping nice too, lots of scope. I'm going to be very busy in the next little while, because Java needs re-starting. I'm going to try and start that within the next week or two. Luckily Athena doesn't turn two until May, so I'm going to wait until then to start her training. I've noticed that Athena is getting more playful, and she's fiddling around with stuff whenever she can now, as opposed to the quiet little thing she used to be. On the other hand, Java is playing around less than she used to. She's actually standing nicely to be brushed now, instead of trying to eat the rope. Speaking of eating, Athena gave me quite the scare yesterday. I was out cleaning her paddock, and i left my gloves on the fence. That wasn't the best idea. Athena picks up the glove, and runs off with it. At first, i just thought "oh great, now i have to go get the glove out of her mouth." But no, it could not be that simple. Instead of just waving the glove around like a flag, today she decides she wants to ingest it. She started eating the glove. And when i say eating, i don't mean chewing. I mean trying to swallow it whole. I tried to get her to come over to me, so i could get the glove out. I thought she was going to get it stuck in her throat and choke on it! I couldn't catch her though. She kept running around the paddock. I rushed inside to tell mom, but by the time the two of us got back, she had spit the glove (which by now looked more like a big dirt clod) out and onto the ground. I picked it up, and resumed cleaning. I'm not going to be leaving any clothing on the fence from now on. Anyways, i'll try to keep you guys more updated from now on. Have a good week!