Horse training and Mustang gentling in Upstate NY.
01/02/2025
Here is a little overview of my 2024 equestrian year!
January:
Picture 1 - Traveled several hours to ride a horse I have never met in a dressage clinic with Stephen Hayes.
February:
Picture 2 - First sit on Cider!
March:
Not pictured - more training with Cider, working on getting on and off.
April:
Picture 3 - IEA Western Regionals. I helped my team qualify for Nationals by getting first in Horsemanship and Ranch Riding!
Picture 4 - Cider's first time leaving home. Cider and Ruby got fitted for saddles.
May:
Not pictured - First official rides with Cider. Now that our saddle fits, we start asking for a bit more.
Picture 5 - Ruby's first hunter Pace. We went with a friend.
June:
Picture 6 - Combined training show on a horse I had never met.
Picture 7 - Liberty clinic with Ruby and ridden Clinic on Cider with Sam Vanfleet.
Picture 8 - Ruby got reserve champion at the ranch show. Cider's first show in the halter classes.
Picture 9 - IEA Nationals in Texas, I got third in Horsemanship.
Picture 10 - Ranch Riding at IEA Nationals.
July:
Not Pictured - The barn flooded at the county fair, luckily we all worked together to keep the horses dry!
Picture 11 - Ruby won her English Halter class at the fair.
August:
Picture 12 - Ruby went on her furst solo Hunter Pace. She loved it!
September:
Picture 13 - Last Hunter Pace of the year. Had a great time with a lot of friends. Ended up riding around it twice.
October:
Picture 14 - Riding Sam Vanfleet's horse Lynx in Florida.
Picture 15 - Training Boot camp in Florida.
Picture 16 - Bought myself a mustang gelding I named Macchiato.
November:
Picture 17 - Ponied off of Cider for the first time.
December:
Picture 18 - Moved Mac closer to me so I can work with him easier/more often.
2024 was an awesome year! Hoping 2025 is even better!
