• Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Meet Mac
Now that Mac has been a member of our family for over two weeks, I'll finally blog about him. Macaroni is a roan pony, about 16 or 17, that our neighbors are leasing and keeping at our barn. So Ripley has a friend. He (Ripley) is so overly affectionate it's funny. One morning Rip and Mac were both in Mac's stall (Mac can open his stall door) But if Mac tries to go in Ripley's stall...then he is reminded that Rip is top horse. Basically Ripley's attitude is "What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine."
Speaking of Ripley, he's been a great horse. Even though he's older, he can still go pretty fast. I'm looking forward to next year when I hope to show him in halter and contesting. I think he moves well enough to be an English horse, if I could train him to bring his head down some more. I thought that mabye Western Pleasure would be a possibility, but he would lap every other horse in the ring!
Currently we're working on slimming down the Ripster. He's been on pretty rich pasture, so he has some extra weight he could lose. So I'm going to start him on an 1 hour 20 minute workout plan. Eventually he'll be doing 15 minutes of walk/trot work in the morning either in-hand, under saddle, or on the lunge line (probably a rotation of all three). In the afternoon, we'll do 45 minutes of walk-trot-canter work, focusing on either contesting patterns or other gymnastic exercises. And finally we'll wrap up with a 20 minute trail ride in the woods.
Comments
• Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Ripley's exercise
Posted by Anonymous
Hi, Emelie...so how's the lungeing working out?? Is he paying better attention to you?? Keep it up, it works!! Let me know how it's going!!
Love,
Grandma Mary Lou
• Friday, September 4, 2009
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Posted by Emelie
Well, I discontinued the lunging because it rattled him so much. Now I just ride him whenever I have the opportunity.
• Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Oh...
Posted by Anonymous
sorry to hear the lunging didn't work out.
Hope you're having some fun rides!!
It was fun to visit with you and spend time with Ripley.
• Monday, September 21, 2009
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Posted by Emelie
Yeah, he's been a good boy. We gallop a couple miles every day, fun!!