A song I like

Counting all different ideas driftin' away
Past and present they don't matter, not if you just sort it out
Watch her moving in elliptical pattern
Think it's not what you say, what you say is way too complicated
For a minute thought I couldn't tell how to fall out

It's twenty seconds 'til the last call
Going hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
By now, you know it's easy
Like we did it all summer long

And I'll be anything you ask and more
Going hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
It's not a miracle we needed
No, I wouldn't let you think so

Fold it, fold it, fold it, fold it
Fold it, fold it, fold it, fold it

Girlfriend, oh, your girlfriend's drifting away
Past and present, 1855, 1901
Watch them build up a material tower
Think it's not gonna stay, anyway, think it's overrated
For a minute thought I couldn't tell how to fall out

It's twenty seconds to the last call
Going hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
Lie down, you know it's easy
Like we did it two summer long

And I'll be anything you ask and more
Going hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
It's not a miracle we needed
No, I wouldn't let you think so

Fold it, fold it, fold it, fold it
Fold it, fold it, fold it, fold it

Fold it, fold it, fold it, fold it
Fold it, fold it, fold it, fold it
Fold it, fold it, fold it, fold it
Fold it, fold it, fold it, fold it

Hööks autumn news

The new Hööks catalogue just arrived, and as usual I found a few things for the wish list ;)

   Dressyrschabrak JH Collection

link: http://www.hooks.se/product.aspx?productid=400811&deptid=106&sortType=sortPopularitet&sortOrder=DESC

 

Aachenträns Aurora Gold Medal®

This one is already added to the shoppinglist for my new horse

Link: http://www.hooks.se/product.aspx?productid=300687&deptid=109&sortType=sortPopularitet&sortOrder=DESC

 

Ulltäcke Hector Showmaster® 

This sheet and the jacket below is very high on shoppinglist for when the cold weather starts setting in, and then at that price for a good looking wool blanket, who can refuse that offer? ;) Compared to others in that price range, this one is SO much better looking.

Link: http://www.hooks.se/product.aspx?productid=600252&deptid=112&sortType=sortPopularitet&sortOrder=DESC 

Parkas Mazette CRW® 

Link: http://www.hooks.se/product.aspx?productid=110379&deptid=77&sortType=sortPopularitet&sortOrder=DESC

Instagram!

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My first "own" horse

 I thought it was about time I shared some pictures of my first horse. He taught me SO much, riding in general, but also what it is like to have that special connection to a horse. I bought him when he was 3 years old, almost turning 4.

I was 14 years old when I got him, and the time with him sure did cost alot of blood, sweat and tears. Before him I had been a helper at the local riding school, and had a privately own pony i rode, so I was quite young and inexperienced. He had not been handled much, and I had to teach him the most basic things, I was told he could lift his legs and get his hooves checked, but the first time I tried to cleanse his back hoof, which resulted in a kick in my belly, but with training, he got alot better.

The next problem that arouse was that he did not want to be alone in the stables, so when other horses were outside and you took him inside, he would freak out. Even if there was another horse inside with him. This resulted in him standing on his behind legs in full length and breaking the lamps in the stable so there was plastic and glass all over (this was a newly build stable with very high ceiling), but that still didnt stop him, but in time I managed to train it out of him and remove his seperation anxiety.

More complications that came up, after he was ridden in, was when he got enough balance, he then started to buck and jump around like a gazelle. The problem was that he reacted to the touch of the legs or the whip on his hindparts, meaning if you placed the whip there gently to request higher pace, he would buck. Or if you required him to stay on the circle and he wanted to break out over the opposite shoulder and run the other way, and you then stopped him, he would also buck and start acting out. But after a year, I changed trainer and stables, and with the help of my new trainer, he stopped it completely.

With the help from my new trainer, we started becoming better and better,and together we learned so much. Next to dressage training I could ride him in the nature alone, I could ride him without equipment, I could take him to the beach and swim together and we even won ring-riding (riding with a stick in gallop, and getting it through a ring) one year and came in second the year before that.

 In time the problem was that he definitely enjoyed jumping more than dressage, and when I was 18, I felt time and money was not enough to keep him, so I sold him to a girl and her family, who then after some years sold him to a mom and daugther, which love him just as much as I did.

He was an excellent first horse, and I owe him alot, now he is a "family" horse, where a mother and daughter enjoys him together, and he is their best friend and teaches them so much, which makes me very happy.

Pictures from my time with him (crappy quality, but they are also old ;) ):

 

 Pictures from his new owner (her profile here http://www.hestegalleri.dk/galleri/41396-dansk_varmblod_spanagers_rolando___solgt) :

A different kind of dressage

Saw this video and just had to share it ;)

Competition

Link to the competition: http://dressyrmupparna.se/?p=30081&preview=true

News

I havent been posting almost at all recently due to summervacation and alot stuff going on in my life. One big thing is, that I have finally gotten the money together to buy myself a new dressage star. Had the money before I moved to sweden, but due to troubles with the danish student administration, I did not get my student aid, and therefore had to use my savings and everything I earned to make rent, student litterature, buscards etc. which was pretty hard, but with hard work, ambitions, sweat and tears, I have now managed to get to that point in my life again, where a horse is possible.(I am very excited!)
 I dont want to go to the bank and loan for a horse, so that meant I had to get the money together myself. (with help from my other half), so this means that I in late august im going to Denmark again and look at horses- I have already found some interesting looking ones, and hopefully I will be able to find the right one and ofc be spamming this blog with pictures of the new shining star ;)

Competition