Day 103

Not much today. The farrier was out. Nina was such a good girl for him. She didn't try to kick him or anything! She was scared though, she kept snorting, but she was good and stayed pretty much calm. I was so proud of her!

We really just lunged all of them for exercise today, since we were tied up with the farrier and now we have a short amount of time on Saturdays. Harry's lunging really well, my mom did a great job with him while I was at school.

I rode Brie bareback while my mom lunged her. We were trying to get her to canter while lunging, but she was being a sass and just kept waltzing on back into my mom. Oh well.

We bought a new saddle! A Passier! We got it on sale and I'm super excited to use it tomorrow. It's going to be Harry's new saddle. I'm pretty sure he's calm enough now that I won't need the horn/handle on the Colombian saddle to hang on to should he start rearing/bucking. He's such a good boy lately =] We also got a new saddle pad for Nina's Aussie saddle. And Brie? We got her jump boots. I'm not entirely sure how she'll react to them...she flipped when we tried to put shipping boots on her once. I think she'll be okay with these since they're significantly smaller. They're really nice and cushy too.

Hopefully for Christmas I can ask my Grandpa to build me a set of jumps. Nothing fancy, just two posts with a bar basically is all I'm looking for. I can't wait to ride tomorrow, and sleep a little later in the morning. I had to wake up at 630 this morning! Alas, the life of a horse trainer.