birthday suprises! :)

so my birthday is actually on march 31st but we had my party tonight! i got a new saddle!!!!!!!! yup, a mark. i have never even heard of the brand but it is a nice saddle. it is very soft leather and it came with a bridle and a girth and a saddle pad! i cant wait to try it on Sassy! i also got SMB elite boots for sassy. hunter green of course!! so i will post pictures of all my new gear real soon!





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Training Adventures

These are just a few pictures from my last ride with Sassy. she is getting very good about putting her head down for me. i only have to bump it a few times and it comes right down. yay!:) although she does only hold it there for about two steps after but it's a start! My birthday is also coming up and i think i am getting a new saddle! my all purpose wintec just isn't going to the job when me and Sassy start to jump over two foot all the time. i can't wait!!

new training

In case you didin't know, we have a new trainer! her name is Deyonna and she is training me, carly, sydney, and nicole. i had my first lesson with her on saturday and she is really great. she rode sassy when she was younger so she knows how she acts and her quirks. We started the lesson with some bending. Sassy is young and not very supple so it helped to do lots of beding with her neck. i then learned from Deyonna how to get Sassy's head down! i have to do a thing called "bumping" on her mouth. at first Sassy did not understand what i was asking because like i said, she is young and was never really properly trained. it took ahwile and some head tossing but eventually she got the message. when i rode her today she was doing it really well! Deyonna also taught me how to ask Sassy for her correct leads and we did a very tiring exercise with it. but i will suffer the sore muscles for Sassy!! we are pretty much starting from ground zero with Sassy and training her properly. but we are still hoping to go to a show some time in april or may! :)




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so yea.

sooo. not much has been going on lately. Sassy is learning how to land on the correct lead after a fence and is getting better with her flying lead changes. also today i just messed around with her. i tried teaching her to bow. it is deffinitally going to take a while!! she came close to going down once so i ended it on that. and i practiced her backing up. she is doing it almost perfectly now! i still cant wait until our first show together!!