Calling All Riders!!

No, I'm not really in to gymnastics anyway.  I quit that a loooong time ago when I fell off a balance beam, spraining my ankle, pulling a muscle in my neck, and hitting my head. . . .

Have you ever watched a live streaming FEI horse show?

No, but I went to one in person when my family visited Dublin a couple of years ago. It wasn't all that exciting imo x) But then again, I'm not a show jumping person.

Have you ever "worked" at a horse show? (ie my mom likes to volunteer as a gate person at local jumper shows)

No, but my cousin works at horse shows, dragging arenas lol

Have you ever taught your horse to kiss?

no I haven't, but one of mine just naturally likes to give kisses if that counts, lol.


Have you ever rode a gaited horse? (Tennessee Walker, Icelandic, etc).

No, just QHs for me . . . and a Quarter Pony . . . and a few Shetlands lol

Have you ever used a neck rope?

Yes I bareback ride a lot

Have you ever seen a bear or mountain lion on a trail ride?

bear no, but i did see a mountain lion once while reading. luckily it wasn't very close to me and my horse, and didn't even notice us. We headed home pretty quick after, lol.


Have you ever had a horse get tangled up/smash into barb wire fence? (We did once in a freak accident, it was nasty.)

Yes, in fact.  Yellow and Ta (when we still had him; we sold him last spring) were watching me ride Cricket in the corral.  There was a bang somewhere and Ta spooked, scared Yellow, and they both hauled butt out of there.  But when Ta got scared and whipped around, Yellow whipped around too and his tail got caught in the barbed wire fence, tearing it completely down.  They were very well trained and didn't get out though, luckily.

Have you ever been riding in your horse's field and one of the other horses take off running?

Yes I ride out on cross country a lot with other riders and young horses and one of them always ends up spooking sometimes even my horse gallops away.

Have you ever broken  bone falling off a horse?

not yet thankfully, I wouldn't put it past me though with my record of flying off my bratty horses numerous times, lol.


Have you ever done liberty riding or groundwork with a horse? (I've actually done both, it's awesome).

Not liberty, but groundwork, yes.  I did a bunch of groundwork when I first got Spirit so we could bond some before I actually rode her---she was green broke when we got her.

Have you ever embarassed yourself in front of a more experienced rider?

Yes. I was at a horse show with about 15 other experienced riders and my horse stoped and pooped (because apparently she can not trot and poop. then 5 about 2 minutes later my horse stopped and peed, in  the middle of the show ring. (I did not win that class)

Have you ever made homemade horses treats? (I do almost every week)

No, I'm too lazy to manually cook for my horses too.  I cook for my family half the time because my parents are always working and I do all of the chores when they aren't home to help me.  I've got my hands too full to carry any more stuff.

Have you ever come across a relative when riding horses somewhere?  (I came across quite a few of my cousins once when I rode with an older guy that wasn't even related to me.  We were trail riding and when I saw them we just talked for several minutes about random stuff and how we're related and whatnot lol).

no I haven't, none of my immediate family is into horses, and my cousins and that that are into them live a 6 hour drive away, so yah, lol.


Have you ever ridden a horse breed in it's native land? (So like, Icelandic in Iceland, Mongolian horse in Mongolia, Marwari in India, etc.) I haven't, but would love to one day.

No. . . .  Not unless you count riding Quarter Horses in America lol.

Have you ever shown against you trainer?