The Gray Wonder, Dressage Diva, Jumping Diary I wonder if other people spend as much time cogitating about which classes to enter as I do. Class 5 – Intro C Time to canter. We’d learned what there was to learn at Intro A&B [Preliminaries Accomplished]. Yes, we still had a huge amount ofContinue reading “Entry Philosophy, Pre-show Report, Full Circle Horse Park, May 2019”
Category Archives: Jumping
Note To Self, Keep An Eye On The Jump Crew
Jumping Diary That feeling when you come around the turn and realize your instructor has reset the jump when you weren’t looking. 18″ Vertical, taken at the canter. By any external measure – ridiculously tiny. Measured against internal progress – Personal Record! Thank you for reading, Katherine Walcott
Extremes of Emotion
Jumping-sorta Diary Milton is an emotive horse. He’s either chillin’ to the max [Goofy] or having a hissy fit [While there is more than one post to chose from as an example, I don’t want to give the incidents energy by looking back at them. Onwards! But I digress.]. Whatever Milton feels, heContinue reading “Extremes of Emotion”
Our First Competition Course, Show Photos, Full Circle Horse Park, April 2019
Jumping Diary Dressage, CT, 3-Phase Full Circle Horse Park April 6, 2019 [Show Report] [Show Report, Jumping] Jeremy Villar Photography There were dressage photos. I think we’ve all seen enough of those. Instead, our first jumps in competition, such as they were. Turtle steps. I’m massively overriding the height, but isn’t Milton adorable? AsContinue reading “Our First Competition Course, Show Photos, Full Circle Horse Park, April 2019”
Our First Competition Course, Show Report, Full Circle Horse Park, April 2019, Show Jumping
Jumping Diary Dressage, CT, 3-Phase Full Circle Horse Park April 6, 2019 [Show Report] Major Milton 23. 12″ Cross Rails. Clear Round Our first, nothing-almost-about-it, jumping class. After our good and bad days the week before, there were two questions: 1) How low would they build the fences? Could we trot over them asContinue reading “Our First Competition Course, Show Report, Full Circle Horse Park, April 2019, Show Jumping”
Names Matter, PreShow, Full Circle Horse Park, April 2019
Jumping Diary tldr: Deciding on & practicing for a super-low show jumping class. The words … I has them. Should we or shouldn’t we? Yes we should! Maybe not. Did we or didn’t we? Should we or shouldn’t we? After our raging success in our inaugural jump(ish) class on Saturday [Kinda, Sorta], itContinue reading “Names Matter, PreShow, Full Circle Horse Park, April 2019”
We Canter Our First Course!
Jumping Diary The words … I have them not. Thank you for reading, Katherine Walcott
Virtual Brush Box 