1st Polo Match, and Gallery Farm CT

The first polo match of the season has come and gone. The OSU polo club had an inner-club exhibition match on September 24. It was awesome!!!! We played 3 chukkas and I was in on two of them. The first chukka I played Bennett, and was part of "the dream team" :) which consisted of Aaron on 8, Jerzey on Sugar, and Me on Bennett. AMAZING to say the least. Then the third chukka I played Pancho, and had some amazing plays on my part. I some how by the grace of god, got Pancho moving and we were very competitive, and fast. Then I had an amazing off-side back shot from a full gallop :) SO MUCH FUN.

After the match I had lunch/dinner with my amazing friends and family that had come to watch us play. Then on Sunday, I loaded my own horses up and drove to Gallery Farm for a little schooling show just to get the boys out and keep them tuned up. Harry competed in the BN division, and he was great, earning a 41.9 on his dressage test, which for us score wise is the best so far, but considering what he has been doing at home, wasn't quite up to par. Harry did not like the half walls of the indoor in which we rode our test, but I kept his lid on, and we kept all 4 feet on the ground and in the ring. Then he did XC, and he was amazing, we are actually trying a new bit, less bit actually. I was having bitting issues while trying to turn, as I had too much :) so Harry pony is awaiting his new "Nathe" snaffle to arrive from SmartPak. O'Malley just did 2 dressage tests. I rode Prelim Test B and Intermediate Test A.I thought personally, that the Intermediate Test was better than his Prelim Test, he was much more relaxed, and was through completely. However, because he was a little bit "hot" for his Prelim test, it was a very fancy test and scored an amazing 26.5 :) what a good boy. His Intermediate Test had 1 break in his counter canter, which was my fault, I didn't keep his hindquarters perfect... But for his first Intermediate test, and in his double bridle, I will take the 42.3 that we earned :)

Needless to say, I am very excited for Holly Hill, both boys are entered, O'Malley will run Training and Harry is in the Beginner Novice. Texas Rose is hopefully next for the Event boys. As for Polo, Texas Tech will be here October 22, and we are trying to get in for Fall Fandango in Houston on the first weekend of November!!! Included are pictures from the match and one of Harry at Gallery Farm.

Until next time,

*Kick On* *Bump Harder*

Fall Season Eventing and POLO

Hey guys!

This fall is looking like it is going to be fairly light. My classes are not going to be as easy to skip as they have been in the past. Holly Hill is still on my calendar and I am planning on going but it might not happen... If it does then O'Malley will run Training more than likely, maybe Prelim ;) and Harry will do one last Beginner Novice!! Then Texas Rose is for sure on my calendar! Definitely going back to Tyler this November, happy birthday to me ;) O'Malley will run Prelim and hopefully Harry will do Novice.

Harry will also be competing at Gallery Farm in a schooling show, BN, and the great Dash De Kas, aka Troll will be making an appearance once again. My mom will be brining my old partner out of retirement and they will be doing the Intro dressage tests (hehe a Prelim horse doing W/T). They should fair pretty well at their debut together. Troll was my partner from 2002 to 2005 jumping from Novice to Prelim in 7 months. Troll was retired at the end of 2005 due to injury, and has sense been a pasture pet. However, my moms' riding interest has been sparked again, and Troll is the man for her.

As for Polo, the first match is Sept 24 in Stillwater, then we have the lovely Longhorns from UT coming to Stillwater on Oct 8 for a match, and then a match again at the end of October during Homecoming weekend!! Look for the Oklahoma State Polo Club around this fall :) Currently I have been schooling off of Chiquita, and Bennett, and recently (as in yesterday;)) Sequal. This year should be solid for the women's team!

Look for some new photos of Harry soon, the wonderful team photographer, Meaghan, took some great ones of him this past week!! As, keep an eye out for some polo photos soon hopefully!

Until next time,

*Kick On, and Bump Harder*

ReCap of Spring/Summer of 2011

First off, here are some pictures from this spring, Harry and O'Malley at Mill Creek P.C. competing at the Beginner Novice and Training levels respectively.
A lot has changed around Horse Heaven Farm this past spring and summer. As most people know, I lost my beloved Shorty this past spring. I had to make the hardest decision of my life, but I know that he is no longer in pain, and he is forever happy and running cross country with the likes of Teddy O'Connor and the rest of the fallen event horses.

On a brighter note, O'Malley and Harry have both been going great lately. O'Malley finished up the spring season with a run at Feather Creek in the Open Training finishing 8th, a run a Mill Creek P.C. in the Open Training finishing 3rd, and a final run for the summer at Texas Rose finishing 5th. He is getting faster, stronger and easier to ride every day. He went to a rated jumper show, which was the Go Preview in Oklahoma City, and he showed in the 3'3 and the 3'6 classes all week. He was good for most of his classes, and we used this a learning experience for the two of us to strengthen our show jumping abilities together. He placed 6th in the 3'6 High Adult/Am jumpers which in turn was the "Ride for the Ribbon" class, bringing home $50 :) I was so proud of him. He fall season is looking like Holly Hill running one last Training level, and then onto Texas Rose for his first run a Prelim again in 2 years!

Harry has been improving day in and day out. He still at this point remains for sale. He ran Feather Creek at Beginner Novice and it was an eye opening experience for the two of us. Harry then ran Mill Creek P.C. at Beginner Novice and he was night and day difference from Feather Creek just three weeks earlier. He finished 7th in a very competitive division, and he would have been higher placed if he would had a better warm up for dressage, however, when you are only allowed 15 minutes from the start of one ride the the start of your second horse, you don't' get much warm up to say the least :) He would have gone on to compete at Texas Rose, but a quarter crack gone bad, sidelined him for most of the summer. So Harry, spent his summer doing dressage and getting his fancy pants tuned up. He is now solid Training level with his dressage and is starting to learn Should In. What a star :) I took him to Feather Creek in July to school cross country and by the end of the he was jumping Training level, and never took one look at the Training Level water at the end of the course. Harry also did the Go Preview in Oklahoma City, and he did the 2'9, 2'11 and the 3' jumpers. By the end of the week he was back to the horse I knew he could be and was confidently cantering around the 3' courses on a loose rein. His fall season is looking like Holly Hill at Beginner Novice, and then Texas Rose at Novice if Holly Hill goes well.

So that's pretty much my spring/summer in a nut shell. School has started and Polo starts next week :) Until next time, Kick On

Long time No post.

So it has been far too long since I have posted on here. So I feel, its time to change that. I promise to be a better blogger!

So spring show season came and went, Vince was great this past spring, He competed at Holly Hill in the JYOP and finished 5th with a great run. Meg was very happy with his cross country run. Vince then went onto Greenwood and ran OP, with a stellar dressage test to stand 6th after dressage I was super happy with him, but then something was not right on XC so I withdrew him at the water on XC. Vince then went on to Colorado and ran OT since I was over seas for the summer and had a great test, so I thought and everyone else thought so too, but the judge thought he is was in too much of an upper level frame for the level. He then started out great on XC we were fast on the clock, and then all of a sudden he shut down at the water. He finished the course with only .8 time faults. We knew something was not right, sure enough, he RF suspensory had flared up again, and I withdrew him from the rest of the competition. Vince is now fully retired. He deserves it, he owes me NOTHING. He has been a wonderful partner to be for the last 6 years.

O'Malley has had an interesting year. Holly Hill he went out in the JYOP, was in 3rd after dressage, he is such a looker on the flat. Then on XC he took over and I didn't have any breaks. After jumping through the water, I went ahead and retired on course, better to be safe than sorry and walked home. He went onto Greenwood and ran in the OT there and had a much better run in a new bit, he is now in a Mikmar for XC and he is doing much better in it. He went up to Colorado with Vince, and ran OT as well. He finished 7th and I was very happy with his run. After Colorado, I took him to Briar Fox, and he ran OT there, he won the event from start to finish :-) I was so proud of my pony.

There has been a new addition to the event team. His show name is Lanslide Lerblance aka Harry, he is an 8 year old OTTB and he is wonderful.

Well, until next time, school is back in session. So its off to Chemistry class, and the Judging team.

One Month Left of School

So after this week, I will have one more full week of school left, then Thanksgiving break, then we come back for dead week, and then its FINALS week :) I have really enjoyed OSU. In the mean time while juggling school on the weekend of November 21 and 22 I am riding in a clinic with PHILLIP DUTTON!!!! I am totally pumped to see Phillip again. Hopefully he will think that O'malley and I have improved tremendously from a year ago when I saw him in June. Sadly Shorty will not be joining us this time.... I really miss my little Shortykins :) This weekend, O'malley will be getting his second hair cut of the winter, and then he will be getting his shoes done. Then I will be coming home the next Thursday to clip Dash for Kelly. Then its back to Stillwater and then load up and take the Moose to Edmond for the clinic :) so until next time.........

****KICK ON*****

Mid terms are done and the Lazy E is around the bend

So school has been fun, Midterms are done and I am doing really well in all of my classes. I have changed majors and I am now an Ag Communications major. Kejser has been fabulous, and he is finally changing clean in his flying changes. Even bigger news, O'malley now lives in Stillwater with me, we make the trek back and forth from home to Stillwater together every weekend. He lives at a local barn where he has a 12X24 stall and a large grass paddock that he goes out in everyday.

The Lazy E seminar is this weekend, so if you get bored come up to Guthrie and watch him go. He is an amazing horse, trust me if I had a mare I would be breeding to this wonderful stallion. So here is another picture of him. Until next time, Kick ON!

OSU BOUND

SO I AM FINALLY IN REAL COLLEGE!!!

I AM AN OKLAHOMA STATE COWBOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

STILLWATER HAS BEEN AN AMAZING PLACE FOR THE LAST TWO WEEKS. HOWEVER, I DIDN'T BRING ANY OF MY BOYS UP HERE WITH ME. MEG IS GOING TO BE COMPETING CASTLEBAR FRIDAY AKA O'MALLEY FOR ME THIS SPRING AND HOPEFULLY HE WILL BE MOVING UP TO INTERMEDIATE WITH HER, AND THEN I WILL COMPETE ON HIM AT MAUI JIM IN JULY.

SO I GO TO CLASS 5 DAYS A WEEK, GO TO THE GYM 3 DAYS A WEEK. BUT I STILL HAVE TOO MUCH TIME ON MY HANDS. SO I FOUND A BARN THAT IS IN YALE, OKLAHOMA WHICH FROM CAMPUS TO THE DRIVE WAY OF FREDERIKSBORG HORSES USA IS ABOUT A 20 MINTUE DRIVE IF THERE IS TRAFFIC. A GOOD 15 MINUTES IF I CAN ESCAPE THE TRAFFIC IN STILLWATER, AND IF PEOPLE WILL ACTUALLY DRIVE THE SPEED LIMIT ON HWY 51....

SO I EMAILED THE PEOPLE WHO OWN THE FARM, WHICH IS A BREEDING FARM, AND ALSO A QUARANTINE FACILITY. AND THE GUY WHO OWNS THE FARM, ASKED IF I WOULD LIKE TO COME OUT TO THE FARM AND TAKE A LOOK. NOW WHEN I WAS INQUIRING ABOUT WORK, I THOUGHT I WOULD BE RIDING A YOUNG HORSE. BUT WHEN I GOT TO THE FARM, WE WALKED THROUGH THE BARNS AND OUT TO A LARGE ROUND PEN AND HANS INTRODUCED ME TO KEJSER, THE HORSE THAT I WOULD BE RIDING.

KEJSER IS A 16 HAND FREDERIKSBORG STALLION! KEJSER WAS IMPORTED FROM DENMARK IN 2003 AND PASSED HIS STALLION TESTING OVER THERE WITH FLYING COLORS!!! KEJSER IS TRAINED THROUGH 4TH LEVEL DRESSAGE. HANS HAD BEEN ASKED TO DO A SPEECH AT THE LAZY E AREANA IN GUTHRIE, OK THIS NOVEMBER BUT DIDN'T HAVE ANYONE TO RIDE KEJSER DURING THE SPEECH. SO THAT IS WHAT I AM GOING TO BE DOING. RIDING THIS AMAZING STALLION, AS OFTEN AND AS MUCH AS I WOULD LIKE TO.

SO THAT IS IT FOR NOW. HERE IS A PICTURE OF KEJSER!

BACK TO CLASS FOR ME!