Hillside wants to congratulate Chelsea on her new twins, Wynter and William. As I pointed out, she will now have to be careful to never say "I hate winter" ever again! Both babies are a healthy 5+ lbs and are at home. Finally, someone has a girl!
This week will be a short week in lessons as I am not teaching Saturday. Any Saturday clients who really want a lesson can contact Kyla for a Sunday lesson.
We are going to continue this week to work on equitation and equitation type courses. This week though, we will be looking at some of the short "tests" a judge can use once he has narrowed down his top riders. These can include jumping without stirrups, trotting or walking a jump, switching horses among other options as listed in the Equine Canada rules.
How this works, is the riders will have already competed over a full jumping course, and possibly (depending on the class) a flat portion. The judge will then have the top riders come back in for a more challenging test. They perform this in order, so that the "winning" rider goes last. Usually (maybe always) the judge just tells the riders what they want done while they are in the ring: their coach cannot help them decipher the judge's orders, nor come up with a plan. This makes it a good test of how flexible and accommodating the rider can be on their own.
Hopefully the weather continues to warm, and we stop getting these brutal lows at night!
Karen
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