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TRAINING NOTES from Elizabeth
Honor and Valor with mom Dana enjoying the brilliant fall colors in North Georgia.
Lise Matte and Paula Gunnels.
Irish Morning Mist with Megan. They both love to jump!
Brew This and Barry jumping logs.
Irish Morning Mist and Megan. Irish Morning Mist is a Thoroughbred for sale at Bits & Bytes Farm.
Heather's Best and Elizabeth over the fan jump.
Brew This and Barry scooling over cross country fences.
Heather's Best trotted Elizabeth over this three foot coop.
Brew This and Barry enjoyed jumping both the stadium fences and the cross country fences.
Elizabeth with her "best boy" Heather's Best.
Special Thanks to Marie van Roekel for this write up and most of the photos on this page and for putting together our picnic!!
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Our horses > training notes from elizabeth > november 6, 2005
Combined Schooling at Oxer Farm in Clermont, GAIt was a beautiful fall day on Sunday, November 6th. Seven horses were loaded onto the trailers for some, off-site, three-phase training with Elizabeth and their favorite riders, at Oxer Farm in Clermont, GA.
Several boarders and "Friends" shared a goal of schooling only flatwork this trip. Fort Mason, with mom Lise, and Two Thumbs Up, with mom Marie, worked on being relaxed in the dressage and stadium arenas. Both ladies were happy with how well their boys did.
It was Honor and Valor's first trip away from home. Mom, Dana, was very proud of Val's quiet acceptance of all the activity in a new environment. He was quiet and well behaved and enjoyed watching the other horses schooling the jumps. He even tried a few cross rails himself. Val is only four.
Joe Bear and his favorite rider Paula were tearing it up in the stadium course in preparation for some upcoming combined test and jumping shows.
After jumping a course set up to three feet high, they then entered the dressage arena, where Joe Bear was showing off why we call him the "rubber band man."
New "Friend" Megan Brown took Irish Morning Mist as her mount for the day. They started in the dressage arena and then moved into the stadium arena.
After jumping everything in sight, they headed for the cross country course. There, Megan worked with Irish Morning Mist on being forward and stretching toward the jumps. They are a very impressive team.
Elizabeth took her best boy, Heather's Best. As a former steeplechaser, the three foot high stadium jumps were no problem for him and he really enjoyed running cross country and jumping natural fences.
Barry took his fox hunter Brew This aka " Brewster". They warmed up in the stadium and then headed for the cross country course with Heather's Best and Elizabeth.
Out on the cross country course, "Brewster" and "Heather" were jumping everything that Barry and Elizabeth pointed them toward. The riders focused on having relaxed approaches to the fences, followed by quiet landings. Both riders were beaming after every fence.
It was another successful schooling day for all of the riders and horses. The day was wrapped up with the typical Bits and Bytes spread of food and then it was time to head home and ride some more Thoroughbreds! |
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