Guest Blog entry # 14: "Back to Basics" by the great Bad Eventer!

 

Back to Basics




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The season was ending.

I had just done my first Prelim with the most difficult horse I've ever started under saddle.

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And for the record, I've been starting horses for........cough.......cough........ a long time......

Babies are something I'm good at.................

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My 2 year old, isn't she precious??



eventing............not so much........



Nearly every time I ride this horse, I wonder why I keep riding him.

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It's a bit odd really because he's sweet......

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quiet........

pretty bombproof.......

My husband can ride him in a halter.......

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I can ride him without a halter.

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He's fearless on cross country.

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And he can jump the BIG stuff.

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BUT

he doesn't turn well.....

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he has no idea what STRAIGHT is.....

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he can't do a 20 meter circle at one speed.........

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From the start I've found riding him VERY VERY frustrating........

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but professional after professional has told me...........

He's the GOOD ONE!

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Just wait, you're going to like him more than the others!

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This is the fancy one!

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Mid season I had to find a new coach..... The timing was pretty damn awful, but we muddled through and managed to find someone that was willing to put up with Bad Eventer.

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I had just finished my first Prelim on this horse..... that only large amounts of Tequila and arm twisting convinced me to ride in the first place......

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He was second after dressage, clean around XC (we had a few time faults) and jumped fearlessly in stadium with only a few green rails.

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I was fairly sure I was going to DIE in the stadium ring, and considered just going home instead.

But the new coach convinced me it really wasn't a big deal, and I went in the ring.

We survived.............

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and when it was all over she said,


"He's going to be fantastic......... when he's broke!!"

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Sigh.....


Only Bad Eventer would jump an unbroke horse around at Prelim.

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