Thursday, July 8, 2010

M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I

First off i'm realllyyy hyper, too much caffeine!!
So me and the madre went to Mississippi to train on some Grand Prix horses!! Two of the horses we rode were 25 and one that my mom rode looked like he was 10 max, his name was Rumor Has it and was trained by Carol Lavell. Apparently i am inept because i couldn't ride him at all!! Couldn't get him to go couldn't turn nothin. Ms E, the trainer we were taking lessons from eventually told me the secret, first you have to beat him to get him to take you seriously and then just have to figure him out. Thats my challenge next time we go. However i'm bringing my own saddle there was one saddle she put me in and it gave me bruises, big old black ones.
 I think its so interesting how different saddles can be, they all have the same basic design but they are used for such different body types, for example if my mom can ride in a saddle you can know without a shadow of a doubt that i can't ride in it. Her thigh bones are long and mine are short, but we are about the same height, figure that one out.
Alright so back to the horses, the one i rode most of the time was a 16.3 hand warmblood named Armani. And now that i think about it he was almost an older carbon copy of Val (Grand Prix Someday's horse). He was also 25 and his gaits were HUGE!! It felt like jumping on a horse trampoline. He was so wiggily like a giant chesnut noodle, but i loved him. Then there was Winglet, she was about 7, and she was like butter. All you had to do was think what you wanted and it happened. She was wonderful!!
Most of what we worked on was fixing basic holes in my riding, stuff that india lets me get away with. Like getting the perfect angle for lateral work. We worked on shoulder-in, travers, half-pass, and leg yield.
Yes i really am that bored right now
We also worked on transitions, mostly canter transitions, and keeping mr. noodle butt straight. Once you create a corridor of aids (reins, legs, feet, those aids) then he was really easy to keep straight.
I also did some passage and piaffe on accident, Oops. but it was fun to be able to sit.
It was really fun, schoolmasters are so nice to ride after riding lower level horses my whole life. Can't wait to go back!

Oh and Hey Hannah!! Stevie and Sparky are amazinggg!! XD

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey! hahaha I was so surprised when I got to the bottom lol Thank You!!!!
That's so cool you got to ride grand prix horses!
-Hannah

Anonymous said...

Hey! hahaha I was so surprised when I got to the bottom lol Thank You!!!!
That's so cool you got to ride grand prix horses!
-Hannah

Merideth said...

hahaha!!
i is sneaky, are i not??
they were wonderful!! they all definatly knew their jobs, and it was so cute Armani the horse i rode on the last day i got off and hugged his face then turned around to listen to a question and he put his head around me and gave me a big hug <3

Anonymous said...

[: Shout out to mah pony! I love it. It sounds like you had an amazing time. Hope all is going well with Miss India too!

Merideth said...

Haha they did look alike though!!
well she got visited by the chiropractor and dressage rally countdown is officially seven days :)