PS-pt 2-The Show

Author’s note:

sorry this is late!  Enjoy!

I arrived there nervous…

CA Speed Barrels

I signed in and everyone got called to the bleachers.  They had an intro and soon it was the show.  I watched the novice go.  The novice could only do walk, jog.  I signed up for open class which is walk jog lope.  Soon my class was called.  In my class there was the girl, the one who always won.  But I relaxed.  I was here to ride and have fun.  Who cares if I loose.  I mounted Jetta for CA speed Barrels and we lined up.  I petted him.  I knew he would do well with  me.  For some reason, he had a connection with me and would do anything I asked.

I watched the people in my class doing jogging only and I smiled slightly.  I knew I could lope the whole thing.  So when it was my turn, I took a deep breath and went in.

“Looks like it’s Ivana on Jetta!”

I asked him to lope.

“She’s loping!”

I loped the whole thing and when I came back, the crowed cheered and I asked him to go faster.  I won second place.

Barrel Racing (Cloverleaf pattern)

I was riding Jetta-again when I had signed up for Raider (that I’ll later regret.)  Again, I was the first one to lope.  I had the ride of my life back, but problem is, I just didn’t go fast enough.  I regretted holding him back around the first barrel…

Again, I was the first one to lope, and I loped the whole thing.  I was less than a second away from winning first… :O

I won second.

I was elated and my last class was one of the last patterns.  We sat and watched all the others.  I soon was walking through the dark, orange lights coming from the main arena.  Shadows wouldn’t cast because it was too dark.  I talked to friends up there and soon it was my turn.

Quadrangle Stake Race

How I regretted my choice when I entered the arena.

I’ve only ridden Raider once.  Soon would I know he is one of the worst pattern horses (he’s really good rail class horse!) I went in at a lope, my instructor sitting at the rail.  The first turn was good.  Raider stretched to lope to the gate.  I split my reins and pulled him back to the pattern.

“Big kick.” my instructor said.

I gave him a kick and the cue, but he wouldn’t go so I slapped him with the reins and he went off.  I made sure he was on the right lead for the last two poles.

I really regretted my choice after thinking I should’ve picked Travis instead.

I won fifth (last place)

After Show

I watched the carrot race and then left.  I admired my ribbons.

I now have two firsts (one of them everyone got a first it was for best posture) two seconds, and one fifth. I hope to win more firsts!  🙂

I hope you enjoy reading my kind of weird article.  This will probably be the last Play-Day 2011

 

PS-pt.1-Preperations

Author’s Notes:

Hi!  I’m back again with more information!

PS stands for Play Day Show

I am having a show called play-day where you choose some pattern (three if you want) and you race against other people!  This year I am  choosing barrel racing, CA speed barrels and quadrangle stake race.  I picked Raider, Jetta, and Jetta.

I have created a new category called Horse Show and I’ll be filing horse show things in there!  I also created a child category called Play-Day 2011.  Enjoy my stories of preparation!

Prep-Boots

I started my preparation by cleaning my boots.  I don’t really have any proper cleaning materials, so I used Paper towels and a tooth brush! 🙂  I was scrubbing as much dirt off with the tooth brush it felt like my arm was going to pop off!  I was scrubbing and I decided to try using paper towels.  But by that time, I had gotten most of it off, but wiping it with a paper towel got more off.  So I wet the paper towel to clean the heel and the base (since leather does not go well with water!) I scrubbed it, but it didn’t look much different.

My boots story isn’t much, so let’s hope cleaning a helmet is more entertaining!

Prep-Helmet

Cleaning my helmet wasn’t any more entertaining.  I took the tooth brush and prepared to scrub it, but I realized that there wasn’t much dirt to wipe off.  I had cleaned it after camp.  So I just scrubbed some cracks then took a wet paper towel and wiped it.  I sprayed it with lysol….thats it…