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My Goals With My Horse: 2009; Tell Us All
Topic Started: Dec 30 2008, 08:48 AM (1,408 Views)
DairyQueen2049
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What are you and your horse(s) going to accomplish in 2009?

Where? When? Dates, places. Show? Clinic? Training? Lessons? Learning to cross water? Trailering?

Tell me your 2009 goals!!!
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TarynJ
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I would LOVE to have Bria at a consistent Training level dressage, schooling some first this year. The pieces are all starting to be there, it's just the waiting game for her to mature enough mentally and physically to put it together!

Icing on the cake would be to have her going over some little courses by end of the year. I don't care if it's only 2'!
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Well, one of my goals is to get Apollo to intermediate. If all goes well at the first event of the year I'll move him up.

Another is to get my little chickadee Lola hooked and in some semblance of fitness so I can take her to the KWPN inspection in 2009.

That should keep me busy ;)
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DairyQueen2049
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:woot: ooo I love to live vicariously through you all!! :woot: :bigwhoop:

More more!!
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WELL....I DO hope to Sell...Sugar, Baby Boy, and Brennan this year...

I ALSO Plan on learning to RIDE ENGLISH...it's about time...I have everything..but the lessons..

THEN I plan to be in a show or 2 with Indy...and until the babies sell...in hand classes would be nice...NOT MANY around me..but I do know of 4

HH :)
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Maybe if I put it in writing it will come true!

I would like to fine-tune Beauty to the point that she (or I) won't be a complete embarassment at Devon and also to show on of my Saddleseat trainer's gaited horses for her at Harrisburg....

but first thing first, I need to start saving!!
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Well I had planned on doing the A/O at a couple of A shows (or as many as the bank would allow me....) and the 3'6 division at the Trillium shows (an Ontario show circuit) and doing my first hunter derby at our A show. Unfortunately I haven't really ridden since moving barns in Oct..... maybe 12 times since and there is a correlation :teehee: So right now I'm trying to figure out what I want, do I sell, lease, move barns, stay, take up macrame???? :huh: Still plenty of time to get him to the A/O ring though as he's a good boy and knows his job.... what to do...what to do??
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Hmmm...good question. First, keep Sam sound. He continues to be irritated by a small splint, which has put my show plans with him on hold. I'm hoping to show him in the A/A's in St. Louis in February. Once we start showing, my goals will be pretty simple: be straight, have the right pace, get the right number of strides, have fun. It's our first year together, so we're just getting to know each other.
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Backyard owner of "special" mare chiming in...oh my goals are so pitiful compared to the others!

1) Get my mare on a REGULAR work schedule as soon as my arena thaws! She's unfit and so am I!
2) Hopefully with goal #1 met we can achieve some nicer w-t transitions, lengthening/shortening stride, some lateral work. Maybe some "trail class" work.
3) Canter on my mare! (Yeah, yeah, sounds easy. She has some sort of canter-phobia!)
4) Ride her out of the arena. Maybe this can be our only winter goal now that she got her new winter shoes & snowball pads today!

Don't want to get too crazy with my goals. These are actually achievable! [I hope!]
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headlesshorseman
Dec 30 2008, 03:09 PM
WELL....I DO hope to Sell...Sugar, Baby Boy, and Brennan this year...

I ALSO Plan on learning to RIDE ENGLISH...it's about time...I have everything..but the lessons..

THEN I plan to be in a show or 2 with Indy...and until the babies sell...in hand classes would be nice...NOT MANY around me..but I do know of 4

HH :)
We are going to hold you to that HH :nyah: :nyah: :nyah:
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Well, provided my finances stay sound then I'd like to keep a regular lesson schedule, do some dressage shows, maybe one or two horse trials, lots of trail riding with Miles, and I REALLY want to trailer over to our other property and find some trails in that neighborhood. Heck, if I could keep a decent lesson schedule then that would be a good start!

Even though I didn't have a consistent lesson schedule in 2008, Paddy and I made a lot of progress in our pace and consistency when we did have jumping lessons. i have no idea how we did it, though! We also made a lot of progress in our canter transitions and the quality of our canter! But alas we didn't show.

I haven't ridden at all in December due to my work schedule. I like to give them most of the winter off, anyways, but it seems like it has been forever!
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In six months, Hesta should gain about 100 pounds. She was doing great, but the past four weeks of under -15 temps and the tractor breaking dying in the sub artic weather =no round bales, just squares for about half that time. SO- that goal is totally attainable.

Within the year- she should be capable of at least showing, if not winning in the pre baby greens- a whopping huge 2'6" here, and competing training level dressage (that's your basic w/t/c here). We may not get to show, with school finances taking priority, but she should be ready. That should be an attainable goal, but if not, we have to think of another solution for her.

I need to get my mind back to going over fences, and I want to get fitter/stronger.. both also attainable goals. I want to start riding better like the ex-pro I am and not the total ammy I feel like.

So- her weight, her training, and my fitness. :cheer:
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Sigh. Same goal I've had since I bought the damn horse two years ago: w/t/c and 2'6" fences.

Warning: I'm going to rant below.

To tell you the truth, we could run out and do w/t/c + 2'6" any day of the week (in fact, I even did it two years ago for the previous owner who wanted the horse to go to a schooling show), but I mean w/t/c and 2'6" the RIGHT way: up and through, balanced at all three gaits, perfect spots to the fences, no rushing, etc. You know, like a proper grown up horse. I suppose technically my goal is to take him to a Beginner Novice horse trial, but considering our run of bad luck, I've lowered my standards.

We wasted a year with a set of dressage and jumping trainers who were useless (good philosophies but very flaky with their schedules and hardly ever saw them, and when we did, their focus was on other students in the lesson). Then we had 6 good months with current trainer and got the most perfect walk/trot you've ever seen but no canter (apparently my horse was never taught to canter correctly, so we had to do a month of training rides to get his mind screwed on straight). Then horse got a really bad stone bruise that required nearly three weeks off, then we had a saddle fitting crisis and it took nearly two months to find the right saddle, then we had a nightmare move to/from a boarding barn that ate up two weeks of training time, then the trainer had a baby and didn't teach for awhile, then the trainer decided that she didn't want to renew her freelance instructor's insurance until the spring. But she didn't tell me that last bit for nearly 6 weeks, which was 6 weeks that could have been spent shopping for a trailer. I offered to just pay her insurance since she was still teaching not even 5 miles down the street at a barn where she didn't need insurance, but she wasn't comfortable with that--took her 2 more weeks to get me an answer on that. So I then spent 6 more weeks shopping for a truck/trailer, finally manage to get one earlier this month, finally manage to get a reasonable break in the ridiculous Michigan weather, and now the damn trailer is BROKEN. My husband is coming out to the boarding barn with me today to figure out if it's just a matter of putting a few screws back in with a power drill or if it's a major repair that will require a trip to the dealer in Wisconsin.

Yeah, I'm a little bitter about the whole affair. I console myself that my horse is charming, healthy, and has a lot of jumps left since he'll have barely used any between ages 6 and 8. Really, nothing is worse than a lame or unhealthy horse, and I'm thankful every day that mine is sound to ride, young, and cute as a button!
Edited by jn4jenny, Dec 31 2008, 05:34 AM.
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Nylar
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I will be horse showing regularly for the first time since 2002! Just locally, but I've had enough offers of horses that I should be able to keep going in some capacity even if my main ride sells.

Assuming Sam doesn't sell right away (which knowing my luck he will), we're aiming to start in the 2'6" come spring and then move up as appropriate. He can do the height, but his first show pointed out the glaring issue that in a BIG ring, he gets a BIG canter. So we kind of rolled around like a freight train for 2 classes before I finally found his brakes.

My own boys will be watching the trailer pull out without them. But they're both healthy and serviceably sound, so I'll take what I can get.
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I'm sort of at a cross-roads. I've got my coming 21-year old retiree, who is still a blast to flat. But his jumping/showing days are over. Then there's the horse I've been leasing and occassionally doing the A/A's on for the past year. I can keep doing that, BUT, after 5 years of serious health issues, I've been cleared to try to get pregnant! :woot: IF that that happens (I'm not a spring chicken anymore, so my odds aren't great) I'll drop the lease. I've seriously considered just stopping the lease now in order to save $$, but I'm afraid that karma will bite me in the ass and I surely won't get pregnant if I do that. So . . . who knows what's in store for me in 2009?
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