Peppy Boy Rolex is my 2011 APHA Gelding. This page is a space for me to log our progress
Meet Jitter Bug 🪲
Jitter Bug or “Jitty” is a 15 yo Quarter Horse mare w/ reining bloodlines. I am super excited to be working with her the next couple months. This is mainly a page for OG but I will be dedicating some posts to her training progress.
Me: tries to take a serious confirmation pic for progress checks
OG: 🤪
Snow day ❄️☃️
I splurged and got OG the turnout sheet from SmartPak with a 10 year warranty! I was so tired of coming out to destroyed sheets from him playing with his friends. He plays HARD with his buddies (as you can see from his halter). Hoping this blanket holds up but if it doesn’t we get a new on for free! 💚
Thankful for this pretty boy 🖤
Being spoiled means getting a front row seat to mom filling the grain buckets while the other horses have to wait in their stalls 💁🏽♀️
Nice, fall🍁 ba****ck ride yesterday. Keeping things calm and easy before this last show on Saturday 🖤
These two are such good friends now. They even teach each other all their bad habits. How nice of them to share 🙄
A portion of our showmanship pattern. Still much to work on but glad he kept his focus
Video from Walk/Trot. We ended up picking up a canter right in front of the judge 🤦🏽♀️ but the rest was good!
A few photos from our show at Valley Riders 🐴🖤 The weekend was full of ups and downs. OG was very good on Saturday. On Sunday he lost his focus and had a hard time with some anxiety. This is the biggest open show we’ve done by far with a lot of competition with horses that know their jobs. We are still learning. Next show: Oct. 8th. It will be out last for the season.
Placings for Saturday:
Color Halter: 5th/6th out of 8
HUS Open: 5th out of 10+
Equitation: 5th out of 10+
Placings for Sunday:
Color Halter: 2nd out of 8
Showmanship 19+: 5th out of 11
Equitation 19+: 4th out of 10+
On Tuesday I let OG down...
We all do it. At one point or another, as riders, we let our horses down. My way of letting my horse down just so happens to typically be the same every time I do it.
Ever since I can remember, my competitiveness has been one of the biggest aspects of who I am. It has led me to some big accomplishments over the years, but has also been one of my biggest downfalls.
For a good portion of my life, my competitive edge helped me succeed at soccer. It was what pushed me to be better. What pushed me to not give in. Sometimes it was what pushed me to be so hard on myself that failure absolutely was not an option.
I still feel all those things. I still have the instinct to react that way. But, something I have come to realize over the years, is my competitive edge consistently fails me with horses. Specifically, I have seen it fail me with OG. He is an incredibly sensitive horse. The push I have to repeat things until they are perfect usually ends with a very frustrated and confused OG. OG (and a lot of horses) need patience and time to overcome challenges faced in training. He doesn’t need the extra push to learn to be perfect. He needs a partnership and a deep understanding of why he is doing what he’s being asked to do.
On Tuesday, I was so focused on my show for the weekend that I forgot to be patient. I went into competitive mode. And like it always does, our ride was ended with us both unhappy. I should have gotten off the moment I realized where my headspace was.
That night, I thought about where I failed him, I took sometime to fix my anxiety about the show and needing to be perfect and I went to the barn the next morning, kissed him and apologized. I told him I would be better. The rest of training this week was still not “perfect”. We had our fair share of making mistakes that we know not to make. But every ride ended with us on the same page. No one frustrated... I need to remember to enjoy the journey of getting where we want to be. With OG (as talented as he may be) that might take longer. And that’s okay. Today and tomorrows show might be a disaster. But that’s okay. Winning one ribbon doesn’t mean you are winning with your horse and losing one ribbon doesn’t mean you are failing with your horse. It means we are learning. Which is a process that should never stop when training/riding/showing horses.
Today I promise to relax. I promise to not care what place I get. I promise to know we are not going to be as great as we are at home. I make those promises mostly for him, but also for myself. So yeah, I let my horse down this week. But anytime you fail your horse, the defining moment is how you react to it. You need to acknowledge the failure, apologize to your horse, jump back in the saddle and restart. 🐴🖤
(A picture of us not being perfect 😂. No matching bell boots and covered and dirt. And let me tell you, he was very happy in this moment.) ❤️
I am creating this page as a space where I can post my progress with my 2011 APHA Gelding (OG). I wanted a space where I can log my thoughts, our progress, our success, our failures, and anything else OG 😊. I’ve thought a while about wanting a place to write my thoughts down… A place to share this amazing journey of owning OG. I have thought about writing in a journal and keeping it to myself. Sometimes the introvert in me finds it pointless to share my thoughts with others because who really cares what I think… but I realized this page wouldn’t be about me. It would be about OG. And he is worth sharing with the friends, family and anyone else interested. He’s worth bragging on a little. And hopefully anyone who follows this page and our journey will see why he’s worth sharing. So, 🥂 to starting this page and here’s to hoping I can keep up with the posting!
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Thankful for this pretty boy 🖤
Thankful for this pretty boy 🖤
A portion of our showmanship pattern. Still much to work on but glad he kept his focus
Video from Walk/Trot. We ended up picking up a canter right in front of the judge 🤦🏽♀️ but the rest was good!
I am creating this page as a space where I can post my progress with my 2011 APHA Gelding (OG). I wanted a space where I can log my thoughts, our progress, our success, our failures, and anything else OG 😊. I’ve thought a while about wanting a place to write my thoughts down… A place to share this amazing journey of owning OG. I have thought about writing in a journal and keeping it to myself. Sometimes the introvert in me finds it pointless to share my thoughts with others because who really cares what I think… but I realized this page wouldn’t be about me. It would be about OG. And he is worth sharing with the friends, family and anyone else interested. He’s worth bragging on a little. And hopefully anyone who follows this page and our journey will see why he’s worth sharing. So, 🥂 to starting this page and here’s to hoping I can keep up with the posting!
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