IEA Scrimmage

Equestrian Girl had a scrimmage for her IEA team last weekend.  It was near Columbus, OH in a private barn run by one of the team coaches.  It was set up just like a regular meet but a smaller facility.

I knew she would be drawing the name of a horse to ride and I knew it might not be a great horse or anything.  I did NOT expect to be so nervous having her get on a totally unknown horse.  

The pictures are horrible.  Not only is my camera still not working quite right, but the lighting was way less than desirable.  I tried lightening them up - you can see the difference between the 2nd and 3rd shot.

For horsemanship Eq Girl rode a horse named Elvis.  He was a big gray quarter horse and was very good for the most part.  He wasn't too crazy about another horse that kicked at him but I can't blame him for that.

Later she rode MO for reining.  Mo was a very strong forward moving horse.  We got to see him go with a girl earlier in the class and it was very clear that he LIKED to do flying lead changes but this class called for a simple change and you'd get points off for doing a flying lead change.  So the coaches told her to bring him WAY down to a stop to get him to change properly and to get him collected back up again.  She did good - 3rd out of 9!