can’t stop watching this. </3
i don’t miss the barn…i miss the feeling
i miss winning…i miss competing…i miss jumping…i miss having the kinds of bonds i had with these horses.
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dont crit my riding please…
this is one of my 4 project horses…Mary
this is only her 3rd time under saddle in the past like 5 years (or more)
she’s quite the handful and thank God my cameraman (boyfriend) didn’t get any of that on film…
anyway…MARY <3
didn’t get to ride project horse #1…aka Mary
but lunged her and turned her out and built a jump chute for her to free jump.
sadly think it destroyed some of her confidence =[
really hope with some supplements and trust well get past this bridling problem so we can start some flat work ASAP
<3
I finally got the time to ride my 2nd project horse Columbia today.
He is the sweetest, most honest horse ever!
Sadly we only lunged for a couple minutes, then walked and did some light trotting since he is really off balance.
I have no question in my mind when the time comes to find him a new home,
He will be the first horse to find a loving home.
<3
(please ignore my eq…I got that saddle when I was 13 …I am now 19…and I haven’t been in an english saddle in WEEKS!)
this is how I felt about Mary (mah soon to be pony) tonight.
flippen bitch.
love her though <3 xD
(Source: girlsgotafacelikemurder, via sunken-sh1ps)
Everyone should meet Mary.
She’s about 12 years old, and an unraced Thoroughbred mare.
She has had some english training, but was abandon at my friends ranch after her owner had to pick between his “race” horses or his wife.
She is the sweetest little horse with a heart of gold. (cheeseeeyy)
She’s definitely going to be a project, but a fun one :D
Me and Cassie
(one of the horses I tried today)
Rockstars ;D
Sadly she was too much of a western horse and I picked Mary =/
(pictures later) :D
I would like everyone to meet Cassie and Mary.
Cassie is the adorable baby faced bay. She is around 5 or 6 years old and an Appendix with an attitude. She under 16hh but has the butt muscles of…well someone with crazy butt muscles. She likes to run around, buck, kick out, and rear. She is super super scared of being tied up, as when being worked with by another trainer, she reared up and ripped her face open.
Mary is the little shy black mare that didn’t want to have her picture taken. She is about 7 or 8 years old and a super super sweet never been raced Thoroughbred. She also is under 16hh but is a mega sweetheart. She already shows prospect for jumping as she LOVES to jump the ditches in her stall.
One of these two lovely ladies is hopefully going to become my new project horse next week. <3
Going up tomorrow to turn them out and lunge them and free jump them, then hopefully Sunday to do some light riding. <3
Hopefully lots more pictures to come tomorrow. Maybe even video.
Everynight…I dream about you.
I wish on every shooting star. at 11:11. Four leaf clover. Dandelions. everything.
I pray every night that you’re happy, and healthy, and loved.
And as weird as it sounds…I pray all your dreams come true.
Because you made all mine.
You are the best thing…that’s ever been mine.
If I could change anything about the past 19 years of my life…
Theres a lot of things I’d have to chose from.
I could have stopped myself from horrible eating and exercise habits and been pretty and popular in high school and life period.
I could have continued playing softball and gone on to get full ride scholarships like all my friends.
I could have cheered all the way through high school and been the captain.
I could have transferred out of private school into public school.
I could say I’d change the fact my parents got divorced.
I could say a lot of things…
But I wish I could get him back. I wish I wouldn’t have said I was okay with letting him go.
I thought that I was doing the right thing by giving him away to what I thought was a better home…
But the more I watch videos of us together…I realize your home was with me.
You didn’t care about the ritzy barns and trainers and riders.
Your heart was on the trails, running barrels and just hanging out.
I thought I was being selfless…when really I wasn’t willing to sacrifice showing, jumping, money, my life…for you.
I let you down when you needed me most.
I don’t know why I always go back to the movies…the pictures…they just make me cry.
You were that once in a lifetime horse, and things haven’t been the same since you’ve been gone.
I visit the pasture every now and again and remember you being there.
Remember how you used to perk your head up and come over to the gate when you saw me. Then as soon as I got to the gate you’d walk away…never too fast, just enough for me to chase you.
Remember how we’d start our hacks in saddles and bridles and end with just a halter and all the freedom in the world.
Remember when you took me up the back hill for the first time, bareback?
I remember them all saying they didn’t recognize you anymore…that you were amazing.
I remember that last night you were mine…
That fun little barrel show that everyone counted us out in. We showed them all.
You ran, and it was that very night that I realized where you belonged…but it was too late.
The next day…seeing her on you…it felt so wrong.
I know you remember our last trail. When I cried the entire time because I realized I had made the biggest mistake of my life.
For the past year and a half I’ve tried convincing myself I did what for the best for you.
But I know it wasn’t.
I know they love you. I know they take care of you.
But I know that you needed me almost as much as I need you.
January 17, 2012
WTF…pictures of me riding?
Yes…get ready…I’m going to spam your dashboards like no other tonight <3