TRAINING A NEW HORSE!

 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.

His trot has been great and I'm working on slowing him down in the canter a bit.  He's another reason why I can't wait to get to the barn!  You can see some photos of him in the photo albums.

See ya around the barn!

Your horse pal,

@raya

Comments

[Claire]

I love your sayong, that is so cute! It is 8:50 in the morning and she is still sleeping! I couldn't do that either. It would be missing out on a lot of the day. I alwaqys get up early. If I didn't, I'de just lie awake in bed for hours! I sent you a picture of my little sister and Marci. You might not get it because it looked really wierd when I sent it to you. Actually, it might have been a picture of Pluto. I completely forgot! Sorry, my parent's just got home and we went out to eat and I sent the pictures a few hours ago. But, I'll try to send more. It only let me send one at a time and I wanted to send more. Well, I'm going to go work on the pictures!
Love,
Cl@ire

[Araya]

Hi Cl@ire~
How are you doing? We are not with the bunnies yet. It is still too early because our teenager friend is still sleeping!!! I could never sleep that long. They say girls need their beauty sleep, I say early to sleep early to rise makes a cowgirl funny and wise!! HeHe.
Dandy is good and so is Shaman. I have not been trail riding with Avery yet but we will !!!
Your horse pal
@raya

[Claire]

Araya,
You are probably visiting bunnies right now but, I was going to say hi. I've tried to figure out what is wrong with my mom's blog but I can't. Well, how's Dandy? She really is cute. I love Shaman as well. Have you and Avery been trail riding together on Shaman and Dandy? I wish my sister was old enough to really ride. Well, I'll send you some pictures in a moment.
Cl@ire

[Araya]

Hi Cl@ire ~
I'm here; I am still blogging and adding photos all of the time so you really have to look for me! I'll be adding more this weekend so stay tuned!!
Have a great last day with your Grammie.
Your horse pal,
@raya
P.S. Avery and I may get to visit the bunnies again tomorrow - we saw a picture of them yesterday and they've gotten so big!

[Claire]

Araya,
My Grandma leaves tommorow! I am so depressed. I'm not ready for her to go. I saw your pictures of the bunnies... too cute! I must go. Why haven't you been on here lately? I wrote you a long letter, I hope you enjoy reading it!
Your horsepal,
Claire

[Claire]

Araya,
WHOA! You got to play with baby bunnies! COOL! They must have been the cutest things since horses! My Grandma comes tomorrow and I was really looking forward to showing her Marci and how we ride but, my mom and dad will be in Alabama so, I can't go riding until Friday . I'm so sad! I'll have to make some horse cookies for Marci while she's here! A recipe was in one of the Young Rider magazines so, you should have it. He loves the Oat meal ones! Well, I can't wait to see some pictures of the bunnies! When I was little we lived in minnesota and when we went to get our christmas trees we went on this carriage, and they let us hold little bunnies- they were so cute! I have to go! BYE!
Cl@ire

[Araya]

Hi Cl@ire ~
Hello there, of course we're still horse pals! Nice to hear from you. I'm glad you like the new additions ... we've been working hard on it and we'll be making more today so stay tuned for more on Araya's blog - hehe!
This morning my sister and I got to play with our friends' baby bunnies ... they have a litter of 6 and they are SO cute and tiny and soft! We have been playing with them since they were 10 days old and they are beyond adorable. My favorite one is grey and white and Avery's favorite is tiger striped, grey orange and white. We actually took photos with them when we met them at 10 days old so I'll post some on the blog under Barn Days.
Yea, I'm having a lot of fun with Jimmy Mac. I always love to train and ride new horses.
See ya around the barn,
@raya

[Carol Shrader]

Araya,
Sorry I haven't been on here a lot... I've had a ton of homework lately! I love the new additions... And Jimmy Mac! I know ya'll will do good together! I am truly sorry I haven't been on recently! Well, I've got a site to explore!
(We're still horsepals, right?)
Cl@ire

[stevie]

Hi Araya,

is that Jimmy Mac that you're on in the photo? -You sure keep yourself busy with the barn, you'll be living there soon, I'm sure.

[Cayce Frierson]

Good luck with training Jimmy @raya. Happy Labor Day.