Well, it's certainly been a LONG time since I posted. Let me update you on the rest of our season.
First, the great news. Traveler won the CSI "Horse of the Year" award for Combined Training for the second year in a row. YAH! I can hardly wait to see what our prize is! :)
Traveler and I spent September competing and he placed 11th in the Open Novice Championships at Aspen. I was so proud of him, he was awesome! We had a great time. Then we headed off to finish up the season at Northwest. Our Novice team placed 1st and Traveler & I placed 7th. We got prizes and a ribbon and we sailed through the cross-country course. Another wonderful time. Here were are cooling off and leaving the dressage arena at Aspen.
Traveler and I coming off the first jump at NW. Easy as pie.
Stadium at Northwest.
Stadium at Aspen.
Traveler, after competing all 3 Days at Aspen. See the ICHO banner? I would like to thank the International Curly Horse Registry for sponsoring us to compete in the Aspen Championships.
Traveler and I took a break between events in September and I headed over to the Equine Institute Combined Training event in Cle Elum with Traveler's 4 year old son, Timbuktu and my 6 year old daughter Luna & her little mini, Podo. They competed for the first time in dressage and she did great! We were a little worried that Podo might jump out of the ring, since in practice sesssion whenever he gets "done" with dressage he just pops out over the rail. But he stayed in the arena and they rode their best test ever -she came home with a trophy! Good job. And everyone loved Podo - except for a couple of big TBs.
I decided it was time for introduce Timbuktu to the "real" world and he participated in his first ever Combined Training Event. He had never jumped a complete stadium course or cross-country course ever in his life and he was AWESOME. He placed in the Top 10 - did just fine in dressage, great in stadium and after the first two jumps in cross-country, he had it down. I called Mark and told him to start breeding every horse he could find to Traveler - because his get is AMAZING! Totally took everything in stride, stayed calm and collected (he had never been ridden around so many horses jumping, cantering, going this way and that way...) and jumped when I asked him to. What more do you need in a horse?
