After a brief break for Simon to eat some hay and me to change his bit back to our normal setup, we were on again for the 2’6″ jumpers. Our first course was the same as my previous 2’3″ class, so I didn’t have to do any more memorization (score!). Waiting for our round I was super relaxed… which is a big deal for horse show nerves me. Therefore, Simon was also super relaxed. None of the jumps looked big to…
If you like cliff notes, here’s the high level overview: I had so much fun this weekend. Simon was an absolute rock star. Seriously y’all, he was just so good. I could brag about him for days… and I guess I will be since I’m breaking up the show write up into several posts. There’s just a lot that happened and a ton of photos so I wanted to write everything as detailed as possible without making the show post into a…
I’ve had three official “jumper” lessons now. That basically means I’m an expert. Right? Right. Since I’m such a baby jumper expert, I will drop some pearls of my new-found knowledge on you. Bam! In jumpers, there are more jumps. Shocking I know! When I used to be like “Ah, I’m so ready for this hunter course to be done” around fence 8… in jumpers, I’m still going. I’m still going and I also have to jump off (hopefully) soon….
Going to keep today’s post to mostly images. Went to the barn last night expecting to see my horse looking good and ready to start tack walking, and he was quite lame again. I’m really upset, worried and frustrated. Going to call a new vet out to get a full work up done so I can get some answers, but if you could send out some positive vibes for Simon I would really appreciate it. For now, lots of Grand…