Pics!

Dozing in the morning sunshine

In the winter rain- black isn't he?

Surprised!? i woke him up lol

Almost in his summer coat! you can see his nose still has yet to shed-

Last summer, Me and my Prince!

First Ride In Six - Seven Weeks!

Well, as you can see by the title i went riding.. it was a Wednesday afternoon after RDA.

I basically just groomed Prince and took him across the river and tacked him up.. and then let him loose on the end of my twenty-two foot line, since he hasn't had the saddle on for so long he showed Victor (grandson of the people whom i'm staying with) how bad he really was! he bucked better then any bucking bronco i've ever seen. so to distract him i made him jump my wood jumps.
  A couple of days ago i fixed them up so they were higher then normal, and stacked to big drums on their ends on the highest end of the jump.
  Well after a couple of crazy gallops, spins, and wild jumping. He calmed down and started to think again. this time i asked him to canter over this really high piece( where the drum was standing on its end) and he just went too fast.
  -just to let you know i've being trying to get him to jump the drum standing on its end for a couple of months now-
  Anyways just in case he felt like he couldn't do it i had stacked one jump up to almost the same hight. it was about a foot shorter (?) then the drum.
  So he jumped the smaller jump! hooray!
  After that he was tired and was sweated up (it was quite hot) so i thought -what the hang? what am i waiting for?- and jumped on him and started walking him around. It only took one loop of the paddock before i trotted him. WOO HOO! great to be back on him!
  To tell you blog readers the truth i have been a bit afraid to get on him. dunno why.

Oh yes! i've made a video of pictures of prince and i'm gonna load it on to youtube.. hopefully it loads all right because this  is the first one i've ever done! i'll put the link on here when its loaded..