you make me chuckle 
You know, I know, Beezer knows that you love the Hambone for being the Hambone.
Yet again, I see I have to give you a whallop, and remind you that anything less exasperating than the Hambone is not going to hold your interest for very long 
“Have You Hugged Your Trainer Today?”
My 5 yr old baby greenie has water issues - what little rain we’ve had - the puddles in the ring
are making him a little nuts. He isn’t sure whether to run through them or jump over them.
The last time I rode him (tuesday) I made him halt in one since Whoa is his most favorite word. Well, he thought I lost my mind but we got three out of four feet to stay in the puddle. 
It’s the little things in life that keep me going!
Mr Elliot is such a Steady Eddie!!
He willing packs his mom around and doesn’t think about those “Marish” ways, even though he is kind of marish looking and acting in his stall 
Whenever I wish I had a mare to breed I will remember everyone who has “Marish” mares!! haha 
as opposed to the noisy ones that Tess and I usually contribute to.
At home, Tess gets lots of turn-out so when we’re at a show for 3-4 days the hardest thing for her to put up with is all the unaccustomed in-stall time. It doesn’t take long for her to get antsy, so we’ve evolved a system where I get to the shows early in the morning and take her out to graze and look around, usually for at least an hour, longer of we have the time. At last week’s show, one of the photographers snapped this picture while we weren’t looking.
My daughter’s greenie is finally coming together and she wanted to post some pic’s of Max’s better show day. This was his first time doing Low Hunter and he did very well that day. Max just turned 4 in july and Sophia has been working very hard with Max. These are only 2 ft. jumps but our trainer is taking things slow with Max. Max placed very well out of 17 he placed 5 and 6 over fences and 3rd on flat. One of the pics over fences is an eq. class, I’m not sure which one but Sophia would appreciate and comments. She did place well in her class I believe she got a third. Max’s knees aren’t where we want them yet and I’m hoping with time and highter fences this will come. These pics aren’t the clearest, they are from a video. As some of you already know Max is only 15 hands, keeping fingers crossed that he might still grow.
Sophia M. Taylor
Thanks but this is just a still photo - you can’t see the horrors abound before and after this fence!
Actually she was quite good this day if you ignore the fact she kicked me in the thigh just before I had to get on her. Ouch!
And the day before she ran at all the fences so I had to pull her up mid course, back her, circle, and attempt to add strides the rest of the way around.
1.) I wish for a shorter strided taller horse. 15.3 with a massive stride looks quite strange. Especially when at a slow pace you leave out strides.
2.) I wish for ENERGY! Please God oh PLEASE give my horsie some energy!
3.) I wish my horse would not go binge drinking before the hack…
4.) I wish for a horse who doesnt like the taste of edgewood leather.
5.) I wish my horse doesn’t constantly neigh when he has to leave his friend back at the barn.
6.) I wish my horse wasn’t quite so gay. Its embarrasing when my gelding has an eye for the stallions…
Oh no Bumpkin!
Take it easy Bumpkin, lots of rest. Glad you’re alright. You be careful, eat that hot fudge sundae and enjoy. We need our pre-greenies!!!
You see, I was inspired by another thread that praised the benefits of taking your show horse out on the trails for a mental break. Ha! I spit on your mental breaks! How about a mental break DOWN? 
Hammie really thought he wanted to be in front until something would scare him. Then he did his impression of a horse wearing cement overshoes and froze in place. No amount of urging was successful. Then Beezer would amble by on her ancient ex-jumper, and Hammie would get brave again, so he’d march back up to the lead. Then he saw lawn furniture and decorations where someone had just had a birthday party in their front yard. That rated about a 7.0 on the Baby Greenie Spook-o-Meter…
I have a show next Sat & Sun. I kept thinking, “And this is benefitting me how???”
“Charter Member of the Baby Greenie Support Group of North America”
Do you really think I have a good use for a 21 year old, 14.2 hand MORGAN??? With board costing $500 +!!! Well to his defense he was short stirrup champion at Indio.
He is now my trainer’s only lesson pony and has a line around the corner for people to ride/lease him. And he can still get me or my trainer off if he really wants to!
I do not own a sewing machine and do not plan to buy one. Once, several years ago, a friend of mine who was the sewing queen was at my house. Her dog was with her and chewed through his lease in like 2 seconds (that is a whole other story!). So she looks at me and says “can I borrow your sewing machine?” My husband bust out laughing…he still loves to tell that story to this day!!! And then, to further tease me, he tells me that I need to be a little more like Mrs. Ingalls. Yeah, right!!!
So need fingers crossed, please. Tigger is off. Again. Only this appears to be a new ailment because it is in a new leg. It’s not horrifically bad, but enough that I know he is “not right.” (The butt, at the sitting trot, never lies.) It seems to be a hind end thing, but not in the same leg as the hock he fractured. The earliest I could get a vet appointment, complete with x-rays, is Wednesday … guess I’ll be getting to work late that day.
On the other cross-your-fingers front: Merry and I are going to go look at a horse for me tomorrow. He sounds really, really promising; the person who has him knows me well and thinks the horse will be a good fit. And even though I keep telling myself NOT to get my hopes up, what does it tell you that I am already scribbling possible show names for him on a scratch pad at work??
As I told my vet when I called just now about the Tig Man, really, it’s OK if he just winds up being a pet/trail horse. I’ve finally accepted that he won’t be my dreamed-of competition horse. (And maybe this other horse won’t be either.) I just don’t want him to be in chronic pain, 24/7, for the next 20 years.
I see trees of green, red roses too. I watch 'em bloom for me and for you. And I think to myself … what a wonderful world. Yes, what a wonderful world." – Louie Armstrong.
Oh, I vote for a commissioned portrait! Horse Show Hubby should foot the bill, too.
I’m so jealous. Mr. Merry will come to shows, but only if I: A) Tell him precisely, within 15 minutes, when I am going to ride; B) Stand with an electric cattle prod outside the back gate, shushing in exhibitors so there isn’t an open gate, which infuriates Mr. Merry; and C) I win, and I win something useful, as in NOT another baseball cap, $5.00 tack store certificate, or a solo wine goblet.
“Charter Member of the Baby Greenie Support Group of North America”
Come over to Off Course and read Hoopoe’s cute poem and have some Cyber Cake that Dublin baked me!!
And enjoy a lovely Starman Baby photo that So Easy sent me as a BDAY gift!!
V. .V
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AHHH, the “mid-ride lunge”. When I lived in Oregon, I bought a 3 year old from Rich Fellers the DAY he left for the winter. Literally. I was writing the check as the van was pulling out of the driveway. He put the check away, and said: “Have a good winter, we’ll be back in 8 weeks.”
Woody and I spent a lot of time that winter learning the “mid-ride lunge”. Some rides, we enjoyed several “mid-ride lunges”. In fact, I think our recond was ride(buck) - lunge - ride(buck) - lunge - ride(buck) - lunge-till-dead-and give-up. 
Sounds like you two are on your way to the shows for 2002!!
“Have You Hugged Your Trainer Today?”
Well, Hammie doesn’t groan, but if you could only see his expression at times, I’m certain he is just cussing a blue streak at me. He does that wrinkling of his upper lip, the snarled nostrils, the rolling of his eye back at me and this awful flattening of his ears. It’s just so lovely, and conveys such a soft, compliant picture of a lady’s hunter to the judge.
The Barbie Cow flutters her nostrils at the canter, so she sounds like Alydar breezing three furlongs.
Yes, Laurie, the baby horses are so ingrained to the “Push the button-push the button-push the button” conditioning. I find it becomes the worst when they first learn that sometimes you ask them to move up to a longish spot. And then you pat them for being so brave and adjustable. Then, the next, oh, seventeen jumps are suddenly ALL LONGISH MOVING UP SPOTS, whether that’s what you wanted or saw. Hey, that was your request once, and it was fun and easy to jump that way, so… push the button, push the button, push the button!
“Friends don’t let friends eat fish tacos.”
Thanks for the tips, LH. He seems to have missed some VERY important lessons when he was originally started. My current trainers are none too happy about it because he is now their (more like my) problem to fix.
The plan is to get him going solidly U/S, and then take him out of training for the winter and spend plenty of time on the ground work.
I so far have taught him what “whoa” means and that when I say it, I REALLY mean it!
But I did leave the barn yesterady asking, “What the hell did I get myself into?”
he goes forward great with voice commands… because hes so roundpen trained… the point is though that if I’m going to show him hes going to have to learn to go off my leg. On the leadline, we first did “walk” with leg or a cluck and then we moved to just leg which he did on the line but when hes not being led he’ll walk off voice command but not off my leg.
Yeehaw- Formerly RF
COTH BB Resident Cowgirl
"She’s gone country… look at them boots, shes gone country… back to her roots, shes gone country, a new kind of suit… SHES GONE COUNTRY!! HERE SHE COMES!!! 
Oh Bumpkin, it’d be just too cool if we should ever cross paths in the show ring with our babies! You’re not THAT far away that it’s impossible. Your Elliot always sounds like such a sweetie… especially compared to my horse.
Yes, folks, I just received my photo proofs from the county championship at Del Mar. Hammie looks really cute over his fences. Actually, he looks like an Arabian! He’s very round, with this really arched neck and pricked ears, and his tail is kind of “up”. Hence, he has a new nickname:Hamosabi +++
I shall post photos tomorrow and you’ll see what I mean.
“Friends don’t let friends eat fish tacos.”
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