[H e y] Now!

Hey now.
It’s been some time since I’ve actually updated you all! I’ll start off with Lily…

Lily has been just a saint. She’s had four days undersaddle now, and they’ve all been wonderful. On our first day undersaddle, we trotted - on our own! :D She was just so..perfect. <3 I honestly couldn’t have asked for a better first time. Second day, we practiced some more figure eights at the walk (we did this the first day as well), going full laps at the trot in both directions, and we also worked on our ‘Woah means stop”. She was so good! =]
Umm, third day! We had our first little ‘baby moment’. xD It was somewhat windy out, and this tarp that was outside (which had bricks all around it, so it couldn’t blow away) blew upwards and started flapping around. Naturally, with Lily being only three years old, she spooked and took off bucking. It caught me by surprise at first, but by the end of her little rampage, as with most horses/ponies, I was laughing! x]]]
Fourth day was great! We rode inside for the first time AND we rode with another horse in the arena for the first time, as well! Lily was so good; she just did her work as told. We worked on circles the trot that day, too! :D Boy, I love that maree. =]]

Time for a Rhythm update, YAY!
My gosh..where do I even BEGIN? Hmm. Let’s start with our last show! It was Traders Point Hunt Charity Horse Show. We showed in the Baby Greens there last year since he was only four years old then. This year, now that he’s five, we decided to skip out of the Pre-Greens because of the political issues in that class (at this show, there would be noo way that the judges would EVER place a teenager over a bunch of trainers, whether we rode better or not - even though we placed extremely well in the Baby Greens classes last year, Pre-Greens is a whole different story). So instead, we showed in the Children’s Hunters. Yeah, we did good! BUT.. Rhythm was so bored with those fences to the point where he started to dangle his knees. =\ Rhythm is the type of horse that when he gets bored with fences, he started hanging his knees over the jumps or even starts to buck at times. So, with that being said, my trainer said that we’re ready to move up to the 3’6” stuff possibly higher.
Wanna know the cool part, though? The 3’6” will be… THE MACLAY! Yesss, that is right! Next year we are shooting for the Maclay! :O Hehehe, I’m so effing excited! ;D

Anyways, that’s all for now. =]

 -❤- Mady