2nd fall

I had a group lesson with Brittany, and Dana taught. When I first got Mason I could tell he was in a bad mood by his attitude... Long story short Mason DUMPED me! Brittany told me "I had a lot of air" Ugh! I don't even remember what happened. He either did a HUGE buck or turned the corner too quickly and I flew off of him!

I am in a rut with him right now! I hope it goes away fast!

Jumper Show

Tuesday Lisa rode Mason and they looked great!

Thursday was the jumper show. We only did the cross rail division and I'm glad I did because he was just a bit of a bucking machine. Thankfully I stayed on!!
Today, Sunday, I had a really nice jump lesson with Lisa. We were working on my position and putting my hands way up on his neck and not getting left behind. It seemed to work, now I just have to be able to do that outside of lessons.

I'm going to try to have a couple lessons with Dana!! Should be fun!

Show day

What can I say besides I had the BEST show experience ever!!!! We got a 39.52 in dressage, mainly because Mason was very behind my leg. He was awesome during warmup, vey prompt during up transitions so I didn't think I needed a whip. Turns out I did because he became very behind my leg once we entered the ring.

Marissa came as well and she did the 3 phase, lets just say Rocky was an ass and dumped Marissa off. When I saw this I was very worried that poor Lisa would have had 2 people fall off during the show. Right before I started to tack up for stadium the sky got dark very fast. So we tacked up super fast, did a quick warmup and then went right into the stadium ring. It started to drizzle a little bit but not bad. The bell rang, and I started my course. Jumped the first one at the trot and he cantered away. I didn't want to risk falling off at the second jump so I slowed him down to the trot and we trotted the second, by the 3rd or 4th jump we felt good so I just kept the canter. We were rocking the course! We got to the castile  jump and he was looking a little bit and was crossing my fingers he wasn't going to refuse. He jumped that like a pro!! All and all I had the best stadium course ever! We went clean and we finished on our dressage score! By the time I finished my stadium course the skies weren't looking very friendly so Mason got untacked and we threw everything in the trailer. We left Flatlands in record time, we left not even 10 minutes after I finished the stadium round.

Mason is THE best!!!!