Tralee
08-14-2006, 05:55 PM
I competed in a dressage show this past weekend. I showed 1st level test 1 and 2 both saturday and Sunday. Tralee was perfect. She walked calmly from the barn to rings, very very little jigging. She even got to have a little grass, which she has not had since her laminitis. Last year we had a lot of issues with her being very hot at shows. She got 61% in both clases on Saturday. On sunday she got a 59% on her first test, and her second was a 57%. By the second test on Sunday she and I were both tired so we didn't preform as well.
Her stall had a very low celling, and Tralee must have hit her head 15 times. When she hit her head she ran backwards. She scrape herself between the ears. I felt so bad for her.
It was a two hour drive home. At home we were un loading her from the trailer and she backed off the trailer extremely fast. I at the front of the trailer holding on to her lead rope. I tried to hold on to the lead rope, but she pulled it right through my hand. I got a very painful rope burn on my hand. She had had enough and wanted to do in her big roomy stall where she can stretch her neck out.
Here is a picture of my hand. I have circled all the burns.
http://i8.tinypic.com/24n1beu.jpg
I will post links to pictures from the photographer as soon as they are put on the internet.
ETA- We talked with some people at the show and we are seriously considering breeding Tralee next year. I have a hannovarion stallion all picked out. The timing would be great , I could spend the summer before college with the foal, and then while I'm in college the baby can go out to pasture with other horses its age, and grow up. When I get out of college I will have a four year old future dressage horse1
Her stall had a very low celling, and Tralee must have hit her head 15 times. When she hit her head she ran backwards. She scrape herself between the ears. I felt so bad for her.
It was a two hour drive home. At home we were un loading her from the trailer and she backed off the trailer extremely fast. I at the front of the trailer holding on to her lead rope. I tried to hold on to the lead rope, but she pulled it right through my hand. I got a very painful rope burn on my hand. She had had enough and wanted to do in her big roomy stall where she can stretch her neck out.
Here is a picture of my hand. I have circled all the burns.
http://i8.tinypic.com/24n1beu.jpg
I will post links to pictures from the photographer as soon as they are put on the internet.
ETA- We talked with some people at the show and we are seriously considering breeding Tralee next year. I have a hannovarion stallion all picked out. The timing would be great , I could spend the summer before college with the foal, and then while I'm in college the baby can go out to pasture with other horses its age, and grow up. When I get out of college I will have a four year old future dressage horse1