Sometimes you just have to start from scratch.

"She didn't come home with one ribbon, she didn't come home with 2 ribbons, she came home with none!"
-Me.


So I had my second horse show today, and it went wrong from the beginning. How? Well, lets start with warm-up. Yes, I made Stanley show ready, I put his mane in braids, braided his tail, cleaned him and clipped him and headed out to the show ring. Stan, as usual, was a totally spaz. I guess its that crazy Arabian in him that he has. Which made warmup sorta humiliating for me, but luckily not a ton of people were warming up. But on the upside, I got a ton of compliments on how he and I looked. We looked awesome! tehe. Also I have concluded that Stanley is severely ADHD. He just can't stay focused for so long and it takes awhile for him to get going and doing something. But I have to thank my trainer for saving me and helping me calm down Stanley to the point where he was his lazy self again. aka meaning more work for me and actually focus on my position and working on him framing up and getting his skills in order.


So here we are waiting at the show for my event, Medium Stirrup 2'0 Hunter, Medium Stirrup 2'0 Eqt. and Hunter Under Saddle.Long and hot under the sun and Stanley and me were super bored while waiting so he decided to always graze and I was chatting along with some other riders.
So it my round, it was rotating 3 riders. So 12 in total were in the Medium Stirrup and they split us up into 3. 3 riders compete 3 rounds and then the next 3 compete. So here is Stanley and me, last ones in to go our first round in Hunter. Lets say, we only made 2 jumps before we were called out of the ring. Aka, Stanley refused the first jump twice and the second jump once and then finally went over it. Yeah TOTALLY humiliated, but you know what, next round will be slightly better.

The next round came up, and I have given Stanley and huge pep-talk before walking in the ring, making sure he saw the other riders and horses doing the course. I really think it helped, because he only refused twice and did the whole course with me, kicking and urging him on over the jumps like a complete crazy idiot. But needless to say, I was pleased we completed the course.

We were called in right after in the HUS round, where Stanley was really asleep, we didn't even place in it because Stanley was falling asleep and didn't want to do any more work.

So yeah, no ribbons but lessons learned. hahaha, lets hope my next show goes better. That is in a few weeks.

Ok ok, I admit, I love quotes. hahaha as you can tell and if you noticed, I am the harshest criticizer of myself and to tell you the truth? I won't deny it. As I have been told once before,

"Your biggest enemy is yourself."

I really have nothing to say other but just a pretty photo of me and Stanley.

The Early Show

Wowie..it has been ages since I last updated this blog. I've been just super busy with school and EMT class. (Yeah, I'm becoming an EMT) and Stanley and life that I had no time to update anything. But now, finals are over and I have summer break with only my EMT class to do in the evenings I can post more!! YIPPE!!

Last week was my first show with Stanley, "The Early Show". and we did Low Hunters and Crossrail Hunters, couldn't do any more classes becasue it was super expensive and I"m dead broke and Stanley was a hyper crazy arabian. (for once).

My event was supposed to start at 5:00pm so I came to the grounds around 3:00pm, to go explore, get Stanley used to the grounds and register and everything. Get to warming up Stanley in the indoor arena and I have to say, I felt soooo small on Stanley among all those tall TB and Warmbloods and including it was raining so Stanley got a bath in a bottle instead of a shower so he wasn;t the cleanest. We stuck out like a sore thumb and inlcuding I was riding 2 of the two grays at the show. So everyone knew us.

But that didn;t stop me from giving Stanley a good warmup and making us look good. I love when he arches his neck and banners his tail, he is so pretty and we looked good. Well I think we did. hahaha

Here I am waiting for my event right? I learn they are behind on the schedule and I have to wait, didn't ride till 7:45pm and Stanley was being a big grump becasue he didn't get his food, so we raided the grass and flowerbeds outside the arena while we were waiting. Stanley and his grass and me with my nachos!

Finally, it was our event and I was called in. "Rider 697 on Prides Tribute ridden by Ricki Wischmann"
Oh boy, I was sooo nevous when I entered the ring that I forgot what jump came first! But Stanley got me in line by acting up and reminding me that I was in a show ring, and my friends were watching and everyone at the show was watching. First time we did the course we trotted it, oh boy, trotting and Stanley don't mix well. I can offically say my first round SUCKED! I couldn't get my form down and had issues counting my stirdes and including Stanley wanted to keep stopping to eat the bright colorful flowers on the jumps. (Thank goodness he didn't). Soo I'm not going to talk about my first round becasue when I came out of it, I nearly started to cry. But my amazing trainer Katie-Anne told me it was ok and said that my second round will be better and this is what I had to do. I got 4th out of 4th in the class. Go figure right?

Honest to say, my second round was way better then the first, I set Stanley in a canter and we went over the jumps smoothly except for one where it was my fault. I was so proud of me and Stanley after and good part is, we got 5th out of 8th in our second class. So super happy! Overall it was a good warmup learning show for Stanley and Me and now I can see what I can improve on and be even better in my next show!

Sorry guys, no pictures but I do have a video for you!

And then waiting for my ribbons with my two AWESOME friends.