Baby Deuce grows up

This is my riding journal. It is meant to help document the
training of my young horse Deuce. I'm teaching him all about dressage,
but he teaches me so much too!

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

First bi

Deuce went to his first show on the 17th! he was pretty distracted and excited thursday and friday, but steph helped me at the show. i had to keep his mind on the work so he wouldn't pay so much attention to the surrounding commotion. he did okay on his first day. he got a decent 57.7 at first level 2 and a 61 at training level. i really had to ride him because he was being kind of fidgety and opinionated. on sunday i took him out in the pouring rain. he was super fussy in the warmup and was kind of being a jerk. he was tired, didnt want to work, and was ready to go home. i took him into the arena but as i passed the judges trailer he spooked and bucked me off. he bolted and left me in the dust!
First i was pretty upset and sad and just thought maybe he's too young to show.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Aww. Poor Jo. Poor Deuce.