30May 2014 by myexracer

Not again?

Barn tales
[caption id="attachment_1335" align="alignleft" width="300"] aerial view[/caption] The rumors are true i am moving the horses, tomorrow. But you just moved them, you say! Yes, thats true i did just move them. Its only been two months and i am moving them again. Its a very long story and i will be writing more about all the trial and tribulations in future blog posts after i've had a little time to settle me and the girls into the new place and had a little time to reflect on the last two crazy months. The main reasons for the move are as follows • My horses need more training • I want an indoor • Crazy people suck and life's too short Let me start with my horses need more training: The…
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25May 2014 by myexracer

Devistation

Life with Jezebel, OTTB, Training
[caption id="attachment_1327" align="alignleft" width="225"] The better half and the horsey half[/caption] Jezebel is still rearing. Second time under saddle with ground work first then a short walk only ride. Well that was the plan anyways. While she was stopped in the center of the ring on a relaxed loose rein and for no reason whatsoever out of the blue, she first baby reared and then when up for a second try never getting fully vertical. Michelle dismounted and worked her on the ground before making her stand still to be re-mounted from the ground then walked her around in both directions with out incident. I am devastated. The ulcers have been addressed there is no physical reason for this. The physical has been eliminated. This is because Jezebel has learned…
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24May 2014 by myexracer

New camera

Barn tales, Off Farm
The new camera arrived. Since my trusty 7 year old Canon EOS died on me last week out of the blue and when i needed it, i had to get a new camera. I settled on the Canon t3i so that all my Canon glass would fit and so that my learning curve wouldn't be gigantic like if i had decided to put myself in hawk for a Mamiya or something. It functions similarly to my old camera so it was an easy adjustment for the most part but its got lots of bells and whistled my 7 year old Canon didn't. Like a HUGE fancy LCD screen and its auto focus is super fast on the recoil. I was just playing around ... but i got some fun shots.…
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23May 2014 by myexracer

Smart Pak sold

Rant
[caption id="attachment_1306" align="alignleft" width="300"] Advertising and Marketing?[/caption] I'm not sure how i feel about this one. When the email showed up in my inbox I was kind of at a loss. I love Smart Pak and i've been vocal about that. I don't want them to change. That doesn't mean i don't want them to grow but i really don't want them to change. They are a very customer service oriented business, their customer service in the horse world is head and shoulders above most if not all. Their products are solid and i am a fan. I also enjoyed the fact that they were a small company, if you can call 350 employees small. I felt like they were all invested in their customers. With this acquisition by Henry…
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20May 2014 by myexracer

Fulcrum Gallery – Review

Review
[caption id="attachment_1298" align="alignleft" width="275"] Thats the print right behind the smart paks![/caption] When the nice folks over at Fulcrum Gallery approached me about reviewing one of their products I was pretty excited about the prospect, cuz yanno I went to fancy art school and I happen to love art. I did however have to think on it a bit, how exactly would this fit in with a blog about horses? Then it hit me... I needed tack room art! Yeah, thats right art for the new tack room. It a a big space and the walls were art free. I could change that with a little help from the folks at Fulcrum.  After talking to their rep, I started with a search on "horses" and ended up after a little…
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19May 2014 by myexracer

The Maryland Open horse show

Barn tales, Off Farm
I went to the Maryland Open horse show this weekend. I didn't enter any horses cuz .. yanno crazy. I did watch my trainer ride her horse in a few classes and take home some ribbons. Its a casual little schooling show hunter jumper style and they will be doing these once a month though i don't know if i'll go next time to watch. This seems to be a fairly tight knit little group and had my fill of listening to the stage mothers and the coaches trying to sound important whenever the stage mothers were in ear shot. This is mostly a kids show and there are very few adults competing. Mostly the adults are there for the green horse class getting their horses experience and putting miles…
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17May 2014 by myexracer

The girls

Barn tales, Life with Circe, Life with Jezebel, OTTB
Jez's second time over at the ring went well. She seemed happy to be working and eagerly walked over all the jumps that were left set up in the ring. She also listened on the lunge and all though she was interested in looking around she was paying attention and not too distracted. Circe also did well under saddle, walked over jumps and did some good trot work. With out losing her mind. I call that a win.  I took a lot of pictures. [gallery columns="4" link="file" ids="1279,1280,1281,1282,1283,1284,1285,1286" orderby="rand"]
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12May 2014 by myexracer

All in a days work

Barn tales, Life with Circe, Life with Jezebel, OTTB
[caption id="attachment_1265" align="alignleft" width="225"] Down the driveway[/caption] Jezebel went across the street! She did rather good. She was calm though very lookie-lou ish  and she crossed the street with no issues at all. Into the woods she went, on the little trail and over to the ditch and the creek. Jez doesn't like ditches or water for that matter. She has jumped both with me on her in the past rather then just walk across or down them. Michelle was leading her and though she stopped at the ditch she didn't balk at it. She looked around snorted a little then decided it was okay to walk down the ditch incline. She thought about jumping the tiny creek but decided walking though it was ok after a couple minutes. Score…
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09May 2014 by myexracer

Slow going

Barn tales, Life with Circe, Life with Jezebel
[caption id="attachment_1259" align="alignleft" width="225"] She seems sane here[/caption] I didn't anticipate it going so slow. Moving the girls has caused us a few set backs as i expected and a few curve balls i didn't expect. Getting Circe across the street and over to the ring has gone just dandy. Getting Circe to work and not lose her mind across the street in the ring has not gone dandy. Getting Circe back home across the street has been real hit and miss. Basically Circe has been challenging the entire first month in the new place. With being in heat... a lot and her natural sensitivity to everything always it makes things difficult. I start to lose my cool and that in turn makes the whole thing a giant mess. She's…
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