Fulbrook Silver Moon

This is my new lovely horse, Brook

That was just a test picture, so I could check and see if I'm linking my photos properly to my Flickr account now. Apparently, I was not complying with the user agreement for Flickr, which my husband pointed out to me tonight. I'm supposed to use the actual HTML, not the URL link, even though they put them both as options. (Now it does tell you this at the bottom of the page, but hey!)

Anyway, the cool think is that now if you actually want a copy of the picture or to download it somewhere else, you can click on it, it takes you to my flickr page, and you can download it in full file size which makes it printable! Groovy, huh?

He's FANTASTIC!

I just have one thing to say about my past 4 days at the Area V Adult Rider eventing Camp.....

I have the Greatest horse EVER!!!!!!!

Ronan showed me that he's really coming into his own now, and just loves jumping. He is like a transformed horse since he had his jumping epiphany on Memorial day.

The camp was taught by Rainey Andrews from VA, and she was extremely good. I just loved her, and I learned so much. I would highly recommend her to anyone of any level of riding. She was very positive, energetic, and did a lot of lecture and theory on everything that she had us do. She was so good at simplifying things and breaking things down....really cool stuff.

Oh, and Ronan, because he was so good, got put into the Novice group, and finally got to jump BIG!
After months and months of little X-rails and small verticals over and over again (Ok...well it's only been since February, but still...I was getting pretty bored.) He finally got to jump some much more interesting and challenging stuff. We did tons of combinations, gymnastic sequences over what were all at least 3' fences, and then lots of wide oxers, narows, and even a huge triple bar..( Believe me, that sucker was WIDE!) No problems what-so-ever. He jumps like it's effortless....well, with him being so huge it probably is, but anyway....

We both learned a lot, and I don't think that I've ever been so proud of one of my horses before.

GO RONAN!

Off to Horse Camp!

Well, Tomorrow, Ronan and I are off to camp. We'll be going to the USEA Area V adult rider's eventing camp with the trainer, Rainey Andrews. She used to be a trainer under Jimmy Wofford, one of the most famous eventers in history.

So, hopefully, it'll be fun and relaxing for me, and good training for Ronan, who I'm afraid will just be hot.

But....in the meantime, I thought I'd leave with this....

Ronan came in first at the Meadow Creek Horse Trials (Event) last weekend.....after an amazing cross country round, and a quiet, relaxed, show jumping round that did not incur any time penalties!

GO RONAN!!!!

He also did a jumpers round for practice the day before the horse trial and came in 2nd! (For going clear and being closest to optimum time.)