Awareness of the outside world. The Chronicle of the Horse: Opinion: Pride Belongs In Equestrian Spaces, Clawson 2021. QueerBio.com: LGBTQ Presence in the Equestrian World, 2022. Hat tip to C for a conversation that prompted me to search ‘trans in the horse world’.
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Watching the livestream of the Lexington Junior League Charity Horse Show and wondering how I would do if I were to show there. I see three options.
More Nerves
Riding at KHP!
I have mentioned this before.
Once or twice.
HE COMPETED AT KENTUCKY HORSE PARK BEFORE I DID?!?! [Nostalgia] 2017
Clearly, I am not as over this as I claim. [Dream Rides] 2019 [That Noise] 2022
“You’ll notice that KY continues to be missing from this list. Good thing I don’t let it bother me.” [50 State Checklist] 2022
Plus! Riding in the big ring!
While the arena has changed since I used to hang out there, it is still the Rolex arena. [Peregrinatio in Stabilitate]
Less Nerves
In this alternate universe, I would be riding my own horse. Or, I would have leased a horse and ridden said horse often enough to consider the horse mine for the season.
I seem to do better with my own horse. However, I don’t know if that is because I know the horse or because I am not showing with a barn, which means I have to do more of the work, which means I have activity to keep my brain occupied. In the fantasy case, I would be standing about in my pretty show clothes while my trainer got my horse ready. No idea where that would fall on the nerve scale.
No Nerves
So far out of my league that I would circle back to blasé. Much like when I showed George at Washington. I was there for giggles. [What’s In A Name]
Onwards!
Katherine
Virtual Brush Box 
I remember watching you ride George at Washington.
He was – in his own way – so game.