Our final NEJA show in their winter series was at the end of April. On a whim, I decided to kick it old school and wear my rust breeches and navy coat. I definitely got a few "looks" from some of the HJ crowd, but it was worth being the weirdo eventer girl haha. It was a gorgeous spring day and our rounds were all excellent. Rejoice really seems to enjoy her newfound jumper pony status and powered around like she knew what she was doing haha. My goals for the day were to win the ground poles speed class by taking a sneaky route someone's trainer would not approve of again haha like I did at the March show and to remember my jump off round like I did NOT do at the March show! Though there wasn't a super sneaky route to take in the ground poles class, I made sure to set her up for tight turns and rollbacks. We did win the class out of nine riders! Whoot! Our speed cross rails was also a good class, with Rejoice willing to listen to half halts, turn on a dime, and also
Day #3 - My horse's sire and dam
Revenue Stream
(Revenue - Irish Caviar - Meadowbranch Irish)
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| Reva's sire, the Swedish stallion Revenue |
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| His face remind me of Reva! |
Dreamy Starlet
(On the Road Again - Dreamy Almahurst - Bret Hanover)
On the Road Again is a Canadian Hall of Fame stallion. The link above has a video of him too!
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| On The Road Again |
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| Dreamy poses at her grandsire's grave at the Kentucky Horse Park when we rode at the World Equestrian Games 2010! |
(Kennebec Chief - Kennebec Spark - Tinder Box)
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| Kennebec Spark aka Sparky |
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| Kennebec Chief aka Kenny |
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| Me riding Kenny circa 1988. I was nine and we are about to ride my first ever dressage test! He was the nicest and most well behaved stallion I have ever met! |
BTW, I did a similar 30 day challenge back in March. Here is post #1 that has info about my mares as well! :-)
Holy cow, Reva's sire was something else. That boy was flying!
ReplyDeleteCool post!! I am still amazed by the extension that STBs have - especially in the racing photos. Neat stuff...
ReplyDeleteI love the pic of you guys beside Bret Hanover's statue! How cool??? :-)
Cool post!! I am still amazed by the extension that STBs have - especially in the racing photos. Neat stuff...
ReplyDeleteI love the pic of you guys beside Bret Hanover's statue! How cool??? :-)
Great posts, I love looking at my horse's relatives! Some stunning horses there!!
ReplyDeletehere are some more pictures of Revenue http://www.sukuposti.net/hevoset/revenue/139949
ReplyDeleteThanks Tuuli! It amazes me how much Reva resembles her sire!
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