Bucephalus

Once long ago there was a horse, this horse was black as coal and had an innate courage that could not be surpassed. Many tried to tame this horse, but their cruel methods could neither subdue him nor force his obedience. If the horse could not be ridden by a man then he would have to die, no one could pay to feed a useless horse. However this all changed the day the king’s son met this horse. He came using gentle methods to train the horse and horse learned to trust him. When the horse and boy could move as one, the boy gave the horse a name, Bucephalus. Bucephalus carried the boy, Alexander into battle, across deserts, and into new lands. Alexander conquered them all, and earned the name Alexander the Great. However Alexander never forgot Bucephalus, and when the mighty stallion died of battle wounds Alexander had him buried near a town that from then on bore the name of the horse buried there.


I have always been facinated by Bucephalus, and its always been my dream to own a horse that looks like him. Which is a little like saying "i wantz The black stallion!!!!"
Except lets face it Bucephalus is way more noble and mystical than the black stallion. ;)

Oh Pony...

          Lately in the Land of India...

India has learned how to do a lovely collected canter on the left lead, she can even collect the canter a bit further and really sit her little tushy down. It is absolutely lovely and feels like she's floating over the arena, Ground.. who needs it!!

The right lead? not as much.. i'm still trying to convince her that she can collect that lead just as much as the left lead.

I'm sure its something that i'm doing, cause you know all horses can do grand prix dressage already... it's these darn riders that need to learn a thing or two! 

India has also learned how to open my locker in front of her stall, and as you can see she loves to demonstrate for everyone. she's not dumb she knows where the treats are!

The funny part is she has now started to try and open everyone else's lockers! I was leading her to the wash rack and stopped to talk to a friend and wasn't paying attention to indie, in the middle of the conversation she starts laughing when i turned around india was trying to open friends locker and friends horse was pinning his ears and trying to nip her. Apparently Indie had encroached on his treat territory. 

She has also apparently re-discovered the joys of throwing her food bucket into the middle of the aisle. The stablehands got so fed up with her that they tied her feed bucket to the wall, and can i tell you how impressive this knot is?!? If i ever decide to move that bucket its gonna take a bowie knife to get it off that wall!! Now she just picks the bucket up and throws it over the stall guard where it hangs outside her stall. 

I swear this horses is too smart for her own good!

Its that time again....

For new breeches.....
Today I made the astonishing discovery that i own exactly two and half pairs of breeches.
Half a Pair?? Yes you heard that right Half a pair...

So... Challenge for today is to write down your favorite breeches and why you like them in the comments    

BusyBusyBusy

Pony says "please excuse my human, I'm doing my best to train her to update my blog more, but she is a very slow learner.....poor thing"

Well India pants has been super fabulous as of late, second level is coming along nicely we are even starting on third level -insert girly squeal here-

She can now half-pass from the rail to center line at walk and to about quarter line at trot, and even take a couple steps at canter. But the big news is collected canter which before about two weeks ago was dismal. I've been really cracking down on my own riding and getting me right before i ask her for anything, and boy has it made a difference! She's getting to the point where i can baby collect her the entire time and can do about a third of a circle of super collected canter with varying degrees of collected canter in between. She finally figured out what i wanted was for her to bring her shoulders up and bend her hocks more, not just go slower and then race off afterwards. So now comes my favorite part...Strength Training!! Where i get to do lots and lots of transitions >:)

Canter-walk, canter-halt, halt-canter, walk-canter cant wait!!

Blog Award :)

Awarded by the lovely Megan over at Megan and Scarface, Thank you!!

So with this awesome award i have to reveal 7 things about me that you (the reader) does not know. So here it goes...

1. i am in fact at the moment typing with one hand and eating a micky dees salad with the other (talented no?)

2. My favorite movie is Tangled

3. India is my horsey soulmate, but you probably already knew that ;)

4. Last weekend i was an assitant teacher at a biomechanics clinic, and i taught a girl doing third level O_0

5. My favorite food is bread

6. i go to a "liberal arts school" thats why i get along with bre so well ;)

7. I love country music!

For Gogo and Andrea...

Recently Andrea over at Eventing-a-Gogo had to put this beautiful girl down.

I have never seen a person try so hard, emotionally and physically to make one horse as happy as they could be, as i have watched Andrea do for two years. She and Gogo were truly the best human-equine partners i have ever seen or expect to see again.

"Heaven is high and earth wide. If you ride three feet higher above the ground than other men, you will know what that means." ~Rudolf C. Binding

Rest in Peace Sweet Girl...



Lesson With Mama Francie :)