Back to business

After having the Magnwave therapy and being worked over twice by the nice girl with magic hands, I was back to my usual self and my person started riding me again. With a bit of time off I hadn't forgotten anything, but I did try to push my boundaries a little. My person didn't budge and I got away with nothing. Well at least I tried!

One thing did change though, She started using a different bridle on me. This one didn't have a bit, instead it had a thick piece that went around my nose. This was nice because I have lost a few of my front teeth and my mouth was a bit tender. My person joked that I was now a first grader. (Whatever that means?)



Sporting my new headgear (These pics were from when it first arrived)



No it doesn't exactly fit like it should- yet.....



Not to worry, I did grow into it and my person tied the mecate a bit differently.

I'm a good sport waiting patiently for my person to gather all our things. 

We always start with walking, both on the longe line and under saddle. I have really learned how to step out, reaching up under myself. 

Slowly working into things

We have a nice shaded area to work in, which means trees to go around in different patterns.

We also have sunny areas too to show off my muscles and definition

Bodywork

Two months after the Magnawave lady came to see me, another new face came to the barn to work on me. This time it was a girl who just used her hands to fix me up. My person had been scouring You Tube and learning all  kinds of ways to help me feel better, relax my tight muscles and bring me some relief. I didn't mind because she hasn't been making me work. I'm enjoying the time off. What pony wouldn't?

I had also been to the vet and had my wolf teeth pulled. Now was a good time to do that since I wasn't being ridden and my mouth would have time to heal up. Part of the thing about teeth and bodywork, she was doing this thing she seen online and noticed one of my front baby teeth was loose. Next thing you know, it popped right out.The one on the other side is loose and should be coming out soon too.

Getting back to the body work, before this girl showed up, if anyone even put their hand on my right side in the girth area, I would turn to give them the stink eye and offer to bite them. My person stopped riding me becuse I was so sore. Putting the saddle on, although she is gentle about it, I was sore and it hurt. Her getting on- It hurt. Putting her leg on my side- it hurt. Everything made me hurt so she stayed off my back but I was good to go on the lunge line so I was still working to keep my beautiful curves.

This girl shows up and starts running her hands all over me. She asked me to lower my head, she pushed on things on my neck, dug her fingers in here and there- pushing on things under my skin. I did a lot of blinking, yawning, rolling my eyes, chewing and licking. The girl and my person would tell me I'm a good girl, but heck. They didn't need to say anything, I was just reacting to how I was feeling good. A few times I stretched my neck up, my back straight and stuck a leg out. Then I would yawn and grunt in a strange way. Ididn't want this to end because it felt so good. I felt so good!

When everything was all said and done, my person was putting her hand on my side and I honestly didn't care. It didn't hurt and I gave Zero shits about her doing it. I was having a Zen moment and just sooooo relaxed. I heard them say something about my eye being so much softer but didn't know what they meant (or care), because I had them half closed and was about to fall asleep. I hope this lady comes back more. I like her even if she doesn't have any cookies.

Magnawave

A little over two months since the show, the lady with the magnawave showed up at the barn. It was a rainy week so I hadn't gotten out much. I was a bit excited when my person got me out. I had seen my friend the big black mare getting worked on. She kept turning around to put her head on the lady and I could hear her sighing, licking her lips and chewing a lot.

When it was my turn, I seen a box with a long white tube sitting in the aisle where I get tied up. My friend was back in her stall and standing right there. She looked so chill and relaxed. And I was so nervous. The lady reached up and touched me with the tube thingy. I didn't know what to expect so I flinched. She kept holding it there and I relaxed. She turned it on and I felt it start to twitch and click.

She moved the tube thingy all over my body, stopping at different areas that on me- were really sore. My sides, shoulders and rear end twiched and jumped, depending on what the settings on the machine were . She set it up over my hips and let it stay there for a little bit. It felt good and it helped my sacroiliac or SI. Her diagnosis? I was really sore in the right hind and especially in my hamstring.

 

Time off

After flipping myself literally out of the washrack, my person was concerned that I had strained something. We managed to get thru our two classes at the show and came home victorious, but she was touching my back and running her fingers back and forth towards my tail a lot.

The next few days she kept walking me and touching my back to see if I was sore. I was pretty sore down the back of my one leg. I was also sore on my right side where the saddle strap goes.  While we were at the barn for the show, my person had seen a flyer for a lady that does Magnawave therapy. Thankfully she snapped a pic with her phone and reached out to her.

I had some time off, but there was a couple of times when she tried to ride me. I let her know right away that I was sore and I didn't want to work that day. As soon as she got on I reached around and tried to bite her. The time she used the saddle, I gave her only two or three strides of a canter on the right lead before I offered to crowhop. I got more time off after that. she still made me work, but she didn't ride me.

Instead she started trying harness parts on me. She borrowed these from one of her friends. This way she could still make me work in the lines, but she wasn't on my back. I remembered this from when we first started out. I've so got this.

Shhhhhhhhh!

I took my persons phone and got a couple of selfies! 



Don't tell her but I might try it again. 

Before the show

There's always things that go on either before, at or after a horse show, that many people don't ever know about. This was one of those things.

My person came to the barn and it seemed she was in a bit of a rush. I had gotten filthy as could be the night before. I had a feeling something was coming so if I was dirty, maybe she would mess with a different horse. Right? Nope she pulled me out, took me to the wash rack and started hosing me off. At least the weather was kind of warm.

While I was in the wash rack the barn owner man drove past me with a round bale on the fork of the tractor. I like eating round bales, but had never seen one moving around like that so I got a bit nervous and started wiggling around. My person spoke to me and tried to ease my mind. Because I trust her, I held it together. When she was done rinsing me off, she went into the barn to start gathering everything we would need for the show. That's when...

I flipped my shit.

I mean, for the first time at my new home, I literally. Flipped. My. Shit.

I lost my mind. All my person could hear inside was my feet slamming and stomping around. She had no idea what set me off, since the barn owner man had already gone back past me with the tractor and I still had all my marbles. When she came around the corner out of the barn I was still struggling a little, but hearing her say "Whoa" in her soothing tone, I stopped struggling and layed still.

I had broken my nice leather halter in two different places and ended up on the ground under the bar and in front of the wash rack half in the mud, with the rope between my legs and under me. Hearing her voice, I calmed down and layed still. I knew she would get me out of the mess I was in.

First she tried to untie the rope. I pulled it pretty tight in my struggle so she couldn't get it loose. The way everything was wrapped around and under me, she couldn't even see the snap on my lead rope so she went for my halter. Lucky for me, she doesn't ever put the tabs thru the rest of the buckle. In a time like this, it makes getting the halter off, much easier. Because of this, the halter came off pretty quick, which was good because it was starting to choke me a little and breathing was becoming difficult.

Once the buckle was undone and my halter off, I layed there for a minute to gather my thoughts. I've never lost my shit like that before so I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do next. When I realized I was free I slowly got up. Eveything felt like it was still attached and working so I ran back to the pasture gate. I got the hell out of there.

My person went and got a different halter and then came looking for me. I was scared and didn't want her to catch me, but she talked to me and pretty soon I had a halter on. She walked me around a bit to check for damages. I was okay so then I was back in the wash rack getting rinsed off again. This time she tied me up under the trees while she went to hook up the trailer and load everything up.

Before loading me up, she walked me around to check for lameness or stiffness and since there wasn't any, she put me on the trailer and off we went. Because of my little stunt, we were running way behind. When we got to the barn hosting the show, we had very little time to get ready. My person went to the barn and checked us in, and when she got back to the trailer, unloaded me, walked me around again checking for stiffness or lameness and found none. She had a plan and quickly tacked me up, changed her clothes and we headed to the warm up arena.  

Unknown to my person, our ride times had been pushed back by 30 minutes giving us a little time to breathe. When she got on, my person took a few deep breaths and let herself be calm which helped me to be calm. We walked around a lot, trotted a bit and then went and stood in the shade to wait for our names to be called so we could go in and impress the judge. I kept hearing a lot of questions about me. A lot of people there were quite impressed with me already. They had no idea what had happened.   

A day of 2's

A couple months ago, my person took me to a horse show. We did  two dressage tests, Intro A & B. This was my second show and as it turns out, this was the second time my person had ever ridden a dressage test. It also happened to be on the 2nd of the month.

How did we do? Well we placed 2nd in both or our classes of 4 horses of course.

Not bad for a baby horse having only been under saddle a whopping 6 months. Or so I have been told. All I know is that my person was super happy and fed me a whole lotta cookies. Probably like half the bag. Of couse I snarfed them ALL up!