It has been a hot summer in Florida. While most of the rest of the country spends their summers out riding and competing, here in the land of wilting humidity we use summer as our down season. Translation for the Farrah pony - working on dressage. If you recall from previous posts, while Farrah is quite talented at dressage, the entire reason she is now eventing is that she flunked out of a super posh Dressage Barn at the age of 5.
I am sure Farrah thinks this is the summer from h*ll, as Lauren and Farrah worked on submission and all things dressage. The pair have even attended a clinic or two and while their dressage is greatly improving, Farrah still lets Lauren know that dressage is still Farrah's least favorite phase.
Now that fall is in the air (we get a whiff from time to time of slightly drier, cooler weather) we decided some of us should go school cross country at Longwood Farm in Ocala. Longwood boasts lots of shade trees, hills and big jumps at a spectacular farm two hours north of us. What more could we ask for? Farrah and some of her barn mates made the journey on Monday.
Farrah had an absolute BLAST! While she did try to bolt off after a jump (or 3, or 5??!!) Farrah gamely took whatever jump was presented and clearly thought we had been withholding all the fun stuff for far too long. Good thing for Farrah she gets to go to the Florida Horse Park this weekend. Farrah will be subjected to a Prelim A dressage test before she gets to jump a few stadium rounds, but Sunday they will head out to school cross country again. Here's to next Sunday, when I am sure Farrah will once again show us why she likes to event so much!
