What are your Aims?

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So what are your aims with your horse(s) this year? However big or small?

Sometimes being able to lead a horse without it charging off is a big achievement for certain naughty horses, which may seem a small trivial thing but massive to someone else.Where as competing at Olympia would be massive for me but normal to someone else!

Ok, so my aims this year:

Qualify for Discovery second rounds (keep getting one pole!!)
Have £1500 (actual) on my one horses BSJA record
Get my horse to live out on his own without charging about/jumping out!

So what are yours?
 
Get back in the saddle properly, on my OWN horse.

In the short term, sort my bloody hands out. Have spent the last few months working hard on my legs and seat as best I can on a variety of horses in a variety of saddles. To the detriment of my hands. Gah.

For the rest of this year, if I have my own horse before the season ends, to go out and have some fun at unaffiliated stressage, showjumping and ODEs in preparation for next year.

However, if that horse is likely to be a baby, the hands stuff stays but the competition levels will be forgotten.

Best of luck, OP, it sounds as though it won't be long before you have to move the goalposts further up the field!
 
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I only have one because I don't have high targets :p
And that is to get the ponies broken to drive.

And for next year:
-hopefully to buy my own horse and to compete.
-get the ponies at some inhand shows.
-See Paddy again


:)
 
:D Much smaller than EVERYONE else's I guess. But I am aiming to do a sponsored ride in September.

It's been a very rocky road I've travelled with my little ex-racer. 10 miles with a hundred other horses and 30 optional jumps would be suicide just now, but by then we'll be fit enough and emotionally ready (Hopefully :p).

Small steps and all that.

Alternatively, we're going to win Blenheim ! What does dressage mean again?

:D
 
Honestly? For him not to brake and for me to not completely succumb to self-doubt. I think they under pin everything I do and work for. :o
If I was to list things I would say carry on improving my riding as there are so many niggles that just keep popping up. Try and get my BN and Discovery double clears and if possible jump a Newcomers by the end of the year. I’m also going to Hickstead in September so I'm determined to get round and get a pic of me jumping there in a Hickstead frame. :p
Oh and if at all possible try and get down this one track out hacking without him turning into a complete neurotic mess! :rolleyes: :D
 
Sort my position out, lower leg and wayward hands.

Get my youngster hacking out alone confidently
 
Elementary debut with Fergs, I think - he's schooling at elementary at home, we just need to re-create it in a competitive environment! Realistically he will never be competitive, but a solid score would be fiiine by me!

A couple of L2 TRECs if we can fit them in, maybe have a crack at endurance and a bit of local jumping.

J, I'm happy just to hack about for the rest of summer, and Dae's already backed, working away with basic steering/stop-start/trot and canter installed, so nothing really there!

Plus I'm off to do some combat stuff at some point. I'd love to do that with Fergs, one day!
 
To get through the rest of the year without any more vet bills or lameness... Bella seems to be very accident prone this year for some reason :( Stupid one but I want to get my confidence back up enough to take her on the road where we had a bit of a scare a few weeks ago, even if I just walk her there in hand. So tiny little goals compared to most of you but they will make me so happy if we can do them :)
 
I want to get our 4 DC's for BN second rounds 2014 before he jumps out of BN - he qualified this year but was unlucky (rubbed a pole in one and eliminated in another). Also want to get his Disc DC's but we have more time to do that. Also want to be jumping Newcomers by the end of the year (he has plenty of scope but just doesn't realise it :rolleyes: ) also, I'd like to qualify for Blue Chips in April, if possible the Novice one but we are quite close to jumping out of BN so don't know if his winnings would stay low enough until October/November ;)
 
I kinda done mine a couple of weeks ago!! Donovan is now broken to drive, so now its just putting miles on his and my clock!! we have driven out round the roads in our area, but i just had a stumbling block over the place where benson died. I just couldnt drive donovan down that way. But a couple of weeks ago, we did it!!
 
My aim is to get some confidence back and crack on with my 5 year old...I would love to be at the stage of some very small jumping by the end if the year with him. Doesnt sound alot but Im taking it slow :o
 
Get to know my boy properly (only had him 4 months!!) and compete round milton kenyes 3DE in sept, and hopefully working at novice by xmas, getting him fully prepared for his BE debut next season :D
 
Take Rio to his first show and hopefully get through it without incident! only problem owning a parade horse is that as soon as he is around a lot of other horses he starts to get very excited :o

Get a saddle for Rio would be good ;)

be able to have people other than myself lead him in and out of the field and have him behave for them :o

get our lateral work spot on :)
 
Happy, healthy, sound horse at the end of the year :) Anything else is a bonus. Would love to be able to keep T in work, and haven't ruled out a veterans class, in hand or ridden :)

Doing the Edinburgh Riding of the Marches with some other HHOers in Sept so hoping that all goes well :)

Bit of tilting practice, hopefully will become more accurate (well I can hardly become less accurate :o ). YO is currently in Denmark competing in the world champs so hopefully will be able to give some instruction.
 
Crack my stupid wobbly leg problems. Pick up some brave pants and jump higher than 30cm!!
Attempt another dressage test without resembling a giraffe on acid!
 
Stay sound for more than one month at a time! If he does then I'd like to get him schooling comfortably at novice level by winter, seems a small achievement but teaching him to leg yield has been extremely difficult!
 
I'd love to qualify for AF at prelim, but realistically before Xmas I want to have done a couple of BD prelims and get 60%- I'd be so massively chuffed with my little ex-pacer if we managed that :)

Love to do a 2ft ode too- haha lofty aims here!!
 
Get changes nailed and have a bash at advanced medium (was the same aim last year but got sidetracked :p, looking a bit more hopeful this time)

And to sort out some buddies to hire the local gallops with, need a bit of an adrenalin rush :D

Good luck everyone!
 
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