My Show Horse Is Home!!

For a few months now I had been planning on selling my 6 year old mare, Amber. Riding her makes me nervous and I just didn't feel like she was the right horse for me. But last week that all changed... After I had to cancel my lesson on Liberty, because he was sore, I began realizing that at his age and with his minor arthritis issues, he probably wasn't going to hold up to what I wanted him to do.

So I started thinking about the idea of buying a new young horse, when my trainer pointed out to me that, well, I already have a perfectly sound, young horse in Amber, and she just needs some more consistent training. My trainer thinks that Amber is gorgeous, sweet and has a lot of potential!! So today Amber came to Whisper Wind, tomorrow we'll have our first real lesson together, and we'll see how things go! I'm really excited about how things are starting to turn out! I will update tomorrow with how our lesson went!!

The First Day of the Rest of my Life!

I have been riding horses for the past 17 years. I own a beautiful 20 year old percheron/thoroughbred gelding named Liberty. He is the love of my life and we have been together for the past 13 years.

When I was younger I took lessons every week, sometimes twice a week. I showed regularly and I was in great physical riding shape.But 5 years ago when I left for college all of that changed. I've been through 3 different barns in the last 5 years, I stopped taking regular lessons, or really any lessons at all, and I stopped showing except for maybe one or 2 shows every other year.

Then a year and a half ago I hurt my back. I got run down by a 2 year old warmblood colt and got thrown into a wooden tack trunk. I hit the corner of the trunk with the center of my lower back, I came out of it with 2 herniated discs in my lower back and a bone chip that was pinching a nerve and required surgery. I wasn't allowed to do any real kind of physical activity for over 5 months, and I gained a lot of weight! Weight that I am still having trouble getting off.

I am so sick of being out of shape and over weight and not able to ride like I used to be able to. Last week I made the decision to move Liberty to a new barn, a wonderful barn called Whisper Wind Farm. It's a very active lesson and show barn and I will finally once again begin taking lessons regularly and showing regularly.

I am creating this blog to begin documenting all the horsey news in my life. Now that I am at a new barn and have new goals, this will truly be the first day of the rest of my life, for both me and Liberty!

Me and Liberty