Firewell
Well-Known Member
Hello!
I thought I would do a little update on Jae and I in the Sun here in Cali. I'm going to start a blog I think but I need to sit down and actually do that .
Jae has settled well, he is like a pig in poo with the Sun on his back! Typical TB. Our stuff hasn't arrived yet but they yard have kindly lent us everything we need. This includes a lush Devoucoux saddle, unfortunately it is a ginormous 18.5inch seat so I swim in it! This coupled with the fact that I don't have my jodpurs, or anything yet means riding is interesting uncomfortable in my jeans, an old pair of fake cowboy primark boots (seriously they think i'm mad) and a borrowed hat which digs in like nobodys business!
To the horse people here I'm this crazy English person. The staff watch me with amused interest as I am the only boarder (livery) who obsessively comes up twice a day to ride, faff and waste their hay . The other boarders turn up at 11am on a Saturday, they get the pro SJ rider to jump their 60,000 dollar horse round a metre track, then they get on and nervously trot over 2ft while being shouted at by their 'trainer'.
I literally am the only person who rides their own horse every day and interferes with the looking after of their own horse.
Jae is getting used to the new routine. He lives out 24/7 in his sand pen (which is quite large) and goes into the field for a couple of hours a day. He is fed super green timothy hay morning and night which is giving him green sloppy poo's and they don't feed half as much hay as we do here in England which is taking me some getting used to! Apparently they don't need as much because they don't get as cold. I think it has something to do with the fact hay is 30 dollars for a small bale. Insanely expensive.
I also think they think I'm strange because I'm the only one with an unclipped horse who rugs at night. I haven't got around to getting him clipped yet and I put two rugs on at night because it's cold! It gets down to 5 degrees brrrrr. It does mean I have to jump out of bed at sparrows fart to take his blankets (rugs) off before the sun comes up otherwise he would boil! That is also taking some getting used to, Heavy weights and fly spray in the same 12hr period don't normally feature in my life!
I have ridden him in our borrowed get up a few times and he is finding the huge arena with lot's of jumpies terribly exciting, he cannot wait to jump but I have told him he has to wait untill I have my proper clothes and my legs aren't being torn to shreds by my jeans .
In order to appease him I decided to try him down the jumping lane this morning. The yard staff at my professional jumping yard offered to help me. Noooo I said My (beautifully trained English) horse is good to loose school, I'll be fine. Jae then embarrassed me by knocking down the jump, running off bucking and then rolling half a dozen times in the middle of the jumping lane while I'm hopping up and down fruitlessly waving the lunge whip at him. He decided to wait untill everyone had had a good old snigger and left before jumping through perfectly .
All our tack and my riding gear arrives with our house furniture this weekend so I am very excited to be able to crack on next week. I'm going to confuse the yard manager by asking to ride in a field soon. I don't want Jae to get bored and sadly hacking is limited where we are at the moment, although they do apparently have a training track around the paddocks which I'm yet to find. I have been told the youngsters in the fields like to dive bomb people riding round the track but I'm convinced that's nothing after surviving the warm up's at unaffilliated showjumping shows in England. .
Next thing to do is to buy one of the really cool horse trailers they have here (they don't have horse boxes) and a gigantic truck to pull it with (fuel is the equivalent of 50p a litre whoop whoop!!!). Then find a competition, that will be amusing. Do they even wear the same show gear?! Lot's of things to find out about!
Some piccies of Mr Jae Beans settling in .
Fanks for reading x
I thought I would do a little update on Jae and I in the Sun here in Cali. I'm going to start a blog I think but I need to sit down and actually do that .
Jae has settled well, he is like a pig in poo with the Sun on his back! Typical TB. Our stuff hasn't arrived yet but they yard have kindly lent us everything we need. This includes a lush Devoucoux saddle, unfortunately it is a ginormous 18.5inch seat so I swim in it! This coupled with the fact that I don't have my jodpurs, or anything yet means riding is interesting uncomfortable in my jeans, an old pair of fake cowboy primark boots (seriously they think i'm mad) and a borrowed hat which digs in like nobodys business!
To the horse people here I'm this crazy English person. The staff watch me with amused interest as I am the only boarder (livery) who obsessively comes up twice a day to ride, faff and waste their hay . The other boarders turn up at 11am on a Saturday, they get the pro SJ rider to jump their 60,000 dollar horse round a metre track, then they get on and nervously trot over 2ft while being shouted at by their 'trainer'.
I literally am the only person who rides their own horse every day and interferes with the looking after of their own horse.
Jae is getting used to the new routine. He lives out 24/7 in his sand pen (which is quite large) and goes into the field for a couple of hours a day. He is fed super green timothy hay morning and night which is giving him green sloppy poo's and they don't feed half as much hay as we do here in England which is taking me some getting used to! Apparently they don't need as much because they don't get as cold. I think it has something to do with the fact hay is 30 dollars for a small bale. Insanely expensive.
I also think they think I'm strange because I'm the only one with an unclipped horse who rugs at night. I haven't got around to getting him clipped yet and I put two rugs on at night because it's cold! It gets down to 5 degrees brrrrr. It does mean I have to jump out of bed at sparrows fart to take his blankets (rugs) off before the sun comes up otherwise he would boil! That is also taking some getting used to, Heavy weights and fly spray in the same 12hr period don't normally feature in my life!
I have ridden him in our borrowed get up a few times and he is finding the huge arena with lot's of jumpies terribly exciting, he cannot wait to jump but I have told him he has to wait untill I have my proper clothes and my legs aren't being torn to shreds by my jeans .
In order to appease him I decided to try him down the jumping lane this morning. The yard staff at my professional jumping yard offered to help me. Noooo I said My (beautifully trained English) horse is good to loose school, I'll be fine. Jae then embarrassed me by knocking down the jump, running off bucking and then rolling half a dozen times in the middle of the jumping lane while I'm hopping up and down fruitlessly waving the lunge whip at him. He decided to wait untill everyone had had a good old snigger and left before jumping through perfectly .
All our tack and my riding gear arrives with our house furniture this weekend so I am very excited to be able to crack on next week. I'm going to confuse the yard manager by asking to ride in a field soon. I don't want Jae to get bored and sadly hacking is limited where we are at the moment, although they do apparently have a training track around the paddocks which I'm yet to find. I have been told the youngsters in the fields like to dive bomb people riding round the track but I'm convinced that's nothing after surviving the warm up's at unaffilliated showjumping shows in England. .
Next thing to do is to buy one of the really cool horse trailers they have here (they don't have horse boxes) and a gigantic truck to pull it with (fuel is the equivalent of 50p a litre whoop whoop!!!). Then find a competition, that will be amusing. Do they even wear the same show gear?! Lot's of things to find out about!
Some piccies of Mr Jae Beans settling in .
Fanks for reading x