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Avery and I were SO excited to go to our first Grand Prix! And so, after a long day of shooting, we were ready to go!! I took some photos of the stadium outside before we went in for our first ever indoor horse show!
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Our next shoot location was another gorgeous East Coast farm, Harmony Hill Farm in York Springs, PA. We took a beautiful winding road that went up and down like a roller coaster to get to the farm and saw lots of cows and horses along the way. It is so beautiful here!
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Our first shoot location for JPC was in Grantville, PA at Heron Hills. It was such a beautiful facility - you can see more gorgeous pictures of it on their website www.heron-hills.com.
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We began our trip back East visiting Lancaster, Pennsylvania as my sister and I really wanted to visit and experience the Amish country. We have had so much fun reading the entire Little House in the Prairie series (the Laura, Rose and Caroline years) that we really wanted to see what life was like in this country a long time ago. Visiting the Amish country, we really felt like we were going back in time. It was a really cool experience.
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We just got back from our trip back East and we had an incredible time! We visited the Amish country, went to the Grand Prix and visited 2 beautiful barns for our TuffRider/JPC photo shoot!
In this post, we thought we'd show you some behind the scenes photos of our trip!! And there's lots more to come, so stay tuned!!
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Hi Everyone ~ I've have been having so much fun jumping with Dandy! This weekend, Avery and I rode with some of our friends and we had a blast! We were playing 'follow the leader' and all kinds of fun games. Lisa even gave us jumping courses and we took turns and watched each other. The weather was perfect and it was so nice to ride in cooler weather.
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As you know by now, I LOVE to ride and I can never get enough of it! Recently, my trainer Lisa asked me if I'd like to start training another horse in our barn, Jimmy Mac. I love training horses and giving them extra work so I jumped at the opportunity to start regularly riding Jimmy. Jimmy is an Arabian cross and a good boy ... he has recently started jumping. I was actually using him in lessons before I found Dandy. I'm in my 2nd week of training him and it's going really well.
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In celebration
of the Olympics, I thought it would be fun to make a photo album from our amazing trip to Beacon Hill Stables! My sister and I had the once in a lifetime opportunity to do a photo shoot for JPC Equestrian/Tuff Rider last fall at Beacon Hill Show Stables. It is a gorgeous barn owned by Frank and Stacia Madden who train Olympic riders. Beezie Madden who is riding Authentic in China is their sister-in-law. It was so incredible ... I was so happy to go there. The horses were beautiful beyond words and the stables were amazing. So were the courses!! Beacon Hill is located in Colts Neck, NJ and it is such a beautiful area ... we definitely want to visit again!
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It has been a lot of fun to teach Dandy, my green horse, to jump! This week Dandy and I had an incredible jumping lesson! Dandy did her first jumping course with 5 jumps and did really well. The course included a cross rail, single vertical and a 3 jump vertical line and we did a few different courses with the five jumps. It was Dandy's first time doing 3 jumps in one row and I couldn't have asked her to do a better job. I had a great pace throughout the courses. I felt like I could ride forever! I can't wait to jump again!
love,
@raya
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This week Dandy did great on the flat. She was really responsive to my cues. She's now stopping perfect and she's slowing down in the canter and making perfect circles. We were ready to start jumping (see photos in Dandy's photo album). We warmed up trotting over trot poles and then we did cross rails and then verticals. It felt great and I think Dandy is going to become a great jumper. I am enjoying training her to jump. See ya around the barn,
@raya

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I'm really enjoying having my own horse. It's been really hot (we are definitely in summer!) but it has not stopped me from going to the barn. I love getting up early and going to the barn and giving Dandy special care. First off, I run her and then I give her a really good grooming. This week Dandy and I worked on more flat work. We had a very long lesson working on stopping and now she's stopping great. We've also been working on cantering slower and keeping a good pace through my circles. After every lesson, Dandy's been really sweaty and I love giving her a great bath and feeding her apples. Oh, and she has the cutest new fly mask ... it's pink and grey and has a pink ribbon for breast cancer research and she looks too cute in it. Another thing that's great about summer is all of my friends are at the barn every day. We have so much fun riding and playing together ... after a good ride, we like to cool off the horses with a short trail ride. We also have a clubhouse with a cool tire swing under a huge old oak tree. It's always hard to get my sister and I to leave the barn - even the grooms know we never want to leave!! Okay, I'm off to see Dandy. See ya around the barn!
love, @raya
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Hi Everybody ~ Last week we got Dandy all new gear and she looks so cute! You can see the photos in her photo album ... the theme is chocolate brown and pink. She has a brown and pink halter and lead rope and saddle pad and a new martingale, bridle and girth. She looked so adorable and we had a great week of riding. Dandy must like her new tack, too!! See ya around the barn!
love,
@raya

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Hi Everyone ~ I'm very, very, very excited to tell you that I got a horse! I thought it would be fun to journal my adventures with her and share the journey with you. Her name is Dandy; she's 6 years old and she's a beautiful paint and mostly white. The first time I rode her, I loved her! Her trot is so graceful ... I feel like I'm trotting in the air! She's a green horse so my trainer, Lisa and I are going to train her. I can't wait to teach her how to jump ... we've had a few jumping lessons and she did good. This week I'm working on the flat - I'm working on her not bulging in her circles and slowing down in the canter. So far, so good. See you around the barn!
love
@raya

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