My next equine project horse

Alice is looking fabulous, much more my cup of tea than Ted, who is too big in every way, although a ski slope could make dismounting easy.
 
Is Alice entered for some dressage this week or is there another AA around..? I was just checking my times and just spotted an AA on the list!
 
AdorableAlice said:
All is quiet on the Ted front at the moment. He is on his holidays due to being conformationally challenged. We have researched industrial sized cruppers but no joy. so he is the field until the front end catches up. His girlfriend did suggest we hire him out to Alton Towers as a ski slope ride, he was very upset and now has an image complex.

With Ted out of the way and much to Alice's horror she has found herself the centre of attention. She has been very much on the back burner and being mainly ID she has been a slow growing young horse and having no temperament or manners issues she just got ignored. She turned 5 last week and has been hacking about and we took her for a couple of horsebox trips. I have sent an entry off for a W/T test on Tuesday. We tidied her up this morning and realised that the sweet and mild little filly has turned into a bit of a stunner and is the mirror image of her sire Amorous Archie.

I expect she will find her first outing difficult but she has to start somewhere. Ted needs to watch his step, with her looks a more handsome boyfriend will easily be found.

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Apart from the white she is the spitting image of my friends archie baby. Well hr has just turned eight ☺
 
AdorableAlice please please write a book - your thread makes fantastic reading and the way you write brings everything to life. It would be a best seller I'm sure :)
 
Chloeap said:
Fab! I'm the one on the naughty big dark bay just before you!
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Just looked on website, the dressage is indoors main arena and clear round SJ on the outdoor. Alice will wet her knickers she has never been indoors. I thought it would be on the outdoor surface.
 
Yes think mine might be the same! It's only his 3rd show and the other 2 have been jumping which he loves, not so keen on dressage and has never been indoors or seen the white boards before so could be quite fun... My horse is the one with the ridiculously stupid/long name (I did not name him!) haha
 
ElleSkywalker said:
Well she best not wear any then. Just big girl brave pants :D
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Ted hid them, well I think he wore them to be honest. Alice wears frilly knickers, she is a nice girl. I have a feeling it is all going to go horribly wrong tomorrow. I thought it was just a tiny evening dressage show, no idea there was show jumping going on.
 
AdorableAlice said:
Ted hid them, well I think he wore them to be honest. Alice wears frilly knickers, she is a nice girl. I have a feeling it is all going to go horribly wrong tomorrow. I thought it was just a tiny evening dressage show, no idea there was show jumping going on.
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Nah she will channel her wonderful daddy and be an angel :D if she looks like she's going to be naughty tell her no clubbing for a year and Internet privileges revoked!
 
Hope everything went well tonight! Does Ted have competition on his hands now that Alice has taken to dressage?
 
I am painfully proud of my little homebred girl. She found her big girl brave pants in some order today.

Just the second time away from home she didn't travel well and was boiling hot after the 40 minute trip. Hopefully she will grow out of getting hot on the lorry. We purposely arrived well before anyone else to let her have a look around. She was tense but not at all silly.

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My wonderful friend rode her so tactfully and the little filly tried her heart out to be good. She was quite overawed but kept the lid on and did her best. She liked doing a little work then being allowed to stand and watch before doing more.

The test was wobbly but she kept going and managed 63%, possibly generous marking but there were a few good steps.

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Her whole attitude was great, as long as she is given time to look and absorb she seems to remain calm and willing which is lovely compared to Ted's forever suspiciousness. They are total opposites to be fair to both of them. Ted is scared of his own shadow yet travels really well.

Aside from the fact that I am not fit enough to ride her myself, it is lovely to have chosen her sire, watched her being born, being totally responsible for raising her, breaking her and getting her to her first competition. She is no world beater but I am so proud of her.

She was absolutely knackered when she got home after sweating badly in the lorry again. Ted's ego remains intact, he won first time out and Alice didn't, but she will eclipse him in due course.


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Glad to hear your evening went well! Think I saw you as I arrived.
Mine was in idiot mode and wouldn't load so missed my intro :( but they let me do it HC later, and I came 2nd in the prelim! Then had a fab clear round at 95cm so very pleased with my boy! He's definitely better at jumping, his dressage tests were so wobbly. But they are his first!
Had been practicing loading a lot and he'd been brilliant but was an absolute tit tonight!
 
Well done Alice, a great start. So much to take in and what a sensible girl to stand and look and learn. You never know how they will take to travelling, but hopefully as she goes out more and enjoys herself, she will relax.
 
Chloeap said:
Glad to hear your evening went well! Think I saw you as I arrived.
Mine was in idiot mode and wouldn't load so missed my intro :( but they let me do it HC later, and I came 2nd in the prelim! Then had a fab clear round at 95cm so very pleased with my boy! He's definitely better at jumping, his dressage tests were so wobbly. But they are his first!
Had been practicing loading a lot and he'd been brilliant but was an absolute tit tonight!
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I was looking for you, there was a huge bay warmblood horse in the warm up but I wasn't you then ! Pleased you had a nice evening and no doubt we will both be at Solihull again, I plan to do the summer series with Alice it seems a nice set up for a young horse.
 
Probably not, he is 16.1 so not too huge - he's dark bay with 2 white socks and a little white star. Yes it was lovely - nice, relaxed and friendly. Just what mine needs! i think I will go again (once I have him loading better). We need to do more dressage, I want to event him as he is a great jumper but he is quite green, especially when out! Might have to do some of the weekend ones though as it was quite a rush after work!
 
splashgirl45 said:
well done alice, ted had better pull his socks up...
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It would appear that Ted and the Barge Mare will be doing all the work as Alice has made it very clear that she does not approve of work and her foray into the world of competition is short lived.

She had a bath after her evening out at Solihull and was turned out to tell Ted and Dim Tim about her adventures. On Wednesday morning she did not come over when I called them for their early check. She looked up, turned round and totally ignored me leaving the boys to come over. I walked over to her fearing the worst and she gave me a filthy look before trotting off away from me. She has kept this behaviour up ever since and seeing as she has a mac on she must be rather warm !

Ted has told me he overheard Alice talking to ACAS about the EU working hours directive and she has instructed a no win no fee solicitor who is preparing a zero hours contract. There is no doubt she wants to remain a lady that lunches. I wouldn't call her totally characterless but she has never shown any really strong attitude or habits, she was born polite and friendly, so this display of displeasure is rather funny and the start of her real character coming through i would think.

I will dig out Ted's lasso and corner her later, we have to have a chat.
 
ted has probably told her he won when he did his arena dancing and alice is now sulking as you should have arranged for her to win as well, so she is giving you the cold shoulder. lasso needed !!!!!!
 
That is so funny - she obviously didn't thoroughly enjoy herself, or perhaps it's all the bathing. Teenagers can be funny about bathing, human ones anyway! Hope you caught her, eventually, without too much grief.

Loved the photos of her outing, and well done Alice plus team!

Anything planned on the agenda for her, Ted, Martha and/or you?
 
teacups said:
That is so funny - she obviously didn't thoroughly enjoy herself, or perhaps it's all the bathing. Teenagers can be funny about bathing, human ones anyway! Hope you caught her, eventually, without too much grief.

Loved the photos of her outing, and well done Alice plus team!

Anything planned on the agenda for her, Ted, Martha and/or you?
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Well, the best bit on the agenda came yesterday with the result of my three year post diagnosis appointment at the hospital. No evidence of disease, I am a NED !

Moving on to the other Ned's, Ted is being idle and growing sideways. His rider is busy with his own horse and we are off the Counties next weekend. Ted did go to Lincomb pleasure ride and was a good boy. Alice is entered for Intro C on the 21st June, which will be her second outing.

We did have an away day at a local show with Martha, who I polished and preened into a wannabee cob. She has never been to a show so we gave her a pep talk before we left. She promised not to pick up and throw any small children or ponies even if they were in easy reach, she also had to promise not to stop and snack with the judge on board. She loved every minute of the day and was mildly bemused at the fancy dress class.

She went nicely for what she is and managed 2nd after giving the judge a lovely ride. I was vetoed on the lets go home vote and persuaded to stay for the championship. With another 4 ridden classes before the championship we had lots of time to get rid of and my lovely young helper decided she fancied a go in the clear round jumping. Now Martha might consider jumping a log or ditch out hunting but that is your lot so a course of coloured cross poles was very likely to end in disappointment. Little helper is 16 but only 6 stone wringing wet, Martha although not tall is extremely powerful and strongly built and has a 'sense of humour', not necessarily the sort of humour that makes me laugh !

We took the curb chain off and the curb rein, not exactly pony club I know, paid our £2, threw young helper on and roughly pointed Martha in the right direction. To my astonishment Martha set sail and jumped the lot, young helper loved every minute of it and the first words were 'can I have another go'. I was confident that Martha's answer to that would be a hasty retreat to the lorry park, but no, she jumped round again. Her reward was hacking with young helper to the icecream van. A cider lolly was demolished.

A quick tidy up and the double bride reassembled she headed into the championship and was unplaced as expected, but she did produce a good gallop with a flourish of her tail and a crafty baby glide, the judge missed that bit. It was a lovely fun day, even though it took me an hour to put tiny plaits on her crest to make her look hogged.
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