Guest Blog post # 26: "Horseless???" by the great Bad Eventer!

Horseless???

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A couple years ago I decided that I was spread too thin.....

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and what I needed were a couple quality horses that would get me where I wanted to go. 

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I had A LOT of horses............ (and no I will not tell you how many.)
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I enjoy raising babies, and I have a reputation for training quiet, agreeable.....

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ponies.



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As much as I LOVE my ponies, when I wake up every morning, I'm still 5' 9" and completely unsuitable to ride them. 

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Being TALL & Bad Eventer.......

the likelihood of me piloting the next 'Teddy' around at Advanced is........

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ZERO.


I sold the ponies..... 

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She's 14.1!


and the projects.............

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my first straight off the track TB


and the extras............

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the hottest horse I've ever ridden


and decided to focus on TWO competitive horses.

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Then the super star came up sore.........

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And there will definitely be a Bad Eventer tale about MRIs and veterinarians and witchcraft.......

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And then I came to a sudden stop, with super star number two...........

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Bad Eventer riding a green horse...... at Prelim....................

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not such a good plan.

The fact that we got as far as we did is...... impressive. 

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But I've learned the hard way that the quickest way to mess up a green horse is to consistently scare them on cross country.

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And let's face it.

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Bad Eventer .......OWNS.........scary.

I read a riding book as a child that said very emphatically, "Every accomplished rider RUINS 10 horses before they learn how to ride."

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Wow. 

That's a pretty horrifying concept. 

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and Bad Eventer definitely has a few notches in her belt.........

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After galloping down to the biggest ditch jump of my life.........

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and "blowing" it..........

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I knew I wasn't the rider to be on the green horse the next time he sees one of those jumps.

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Here's a video I took of PDuddy gettin' it done.....at a ditch jump I heard another 4 star rider call "JUST AWFUL"!!!

click here for the video on mobile


I commented later that I needed to learn how to give my horse that kind of ride......

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The fact that at that moment ANYONE felt it was important to point out, "Well, you're not Phillip Dutton"........ is still a sore spot...............

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Hi.....I'm Bad Eventer. Have we met??

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Bad Eventer is well in touch with her riding abilities......or rather.........lack of...........abilities...............


So the Evil Twin has gone off to bootcamp........to get braver with a better rider....

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and the Wonder Pony is still enjoying his beach side vacation........


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I suppose.....'enjoy' is probably not the right word.....

In the interim.............

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I guess I'll be riding the pig.


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