We Live & We Learn

Today was a wasted day for Dargenzio & I. We decided to go to a small, local show which turned out to be a complete bust. I was hoping one, they'd have a big enough arena for him to canter in... There was one but it was up the hill, far away from the show ring & had no jumps in it... Two, people would know how to control their horses... Oh dear lord, talk about people not watching where they're going & getting super close to you with a horse that bucks & rears. Dargenzio was definitely NOT a fan of the horses that were acting up, & NO ONE had any common courtesy to leave the arena (I mean, there were three arenas & tons of space outside to lunge)... And three, that the show would run just a little bit faster so we wouldn't be stuck there until 5 pm. If I wouldn't have had a million things to do back at home, this wouldn't have been a problem. But the show literally moved as slow as a turtle. 1 hour lunch break, which is normal... Then, it took them like 30 minutes to set up for the trail classes. Oh yeah, they had to take that down too. This was about the time we left because I didn't want to know how long it took them to set up for the jumping classes plus there were ten or so flat classes before that, along with lead line & an at liberty class. Needless to say, that bath that I gave him yesterday was useless, along with the trip over there which was an hour & a half :p But I do think this was a great schooling experience for Dargenzio, I rode him for like an hour & a half... considering I expected the jumping classes to be starting sooner. He rode in a covered arena, in an itty bitty not even dressage size arena, & got to ride with a bunch of crazy Arabians(; If he isn't scarred for life, we'll be good. Note to self - Don't take a young, very green horse to that show ever again. NOW FOR THE GOOD NEWS, I came home after a pretty bad day (should I even mention that it was in the 80s with no wind blowing at all) & as I was pulling the horses off the trailer, someone started honking their horn from our front gate... Who the heck could it be? So I threw them in the pasture & ran over to the gate to get what I thought was just mail, until I realized that I had a package. It was Dargenzio's new KWPN Dutch Warmblood pad that I ordered at PHJA, last weekend. I didn't expect it to come so quickly but the lady who monogrammed it did a fabulous job... She even had to make the design (which is why I had to order it) since she didn't have it already made at the show! I absolutely love it! If you need anything monogrammed or embroidered, check out High Class Horse!