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Big horse show this weekend. I'm still drained.
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All in all, it was an interesting experience. I was definitely outclassed as a rider and Tisa was outclassed training wise. I did get some complements from some professional trainers on what I had done with her. One of the trainers had actually looked into buying her 8 months ago but decided she was too young for what he wanted. He couldn't believe how far she'd come since then. Most of the horses we were competing against have been in training every day for the last 2 years. Tisa's been ridden 2 - 3 times a week for the last 5 months. We didn't embarrass ourselves.
I also got a new appreciation of how BIG Tisa is for an arabian. For some reason, I always think of her as a little horse, maybe because I've known her since she was only a few hundred pounds and a year old. I kept seeing all these big horses at the show and thinking "wow, HUGE arabian". Then I'd see Tisa next to them and realise that she was just as big, if not bigger, than most of them. My little horse isn't so little. Weird.
( High points: )
( Low points: )
All in all, it was an interesting experience. I was definitely outclassed as a rider and Tisa was outclassed training wise. I did get some complements from some professional trainers on what I had done with her. One of the trainers had actually looked into buying her 8 months ago but decided she was too young for what he wanted. He couldn't believe how far she'd come since then. Most of the horses we were competing against have been in training every day for the last 2 years. Tisa's been ridden 2 - 3 times a week for the last 5 months. We didn't embarrass ourselves.
I also got a new appreciation of how BIG Tisa is for an arabian. For some reason, I always think of her as a little horse, maybe because I've known her since she was only a few hundred pounds and a year old. I kept seeing all these big horses at the show and thinking "wow, HUGE arabian". Then I'd see Tisa next to them and realise that she was just as big, if not bigger, than most of them. My little horse isn't so little. Weird.
