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Posted : 2/13/2011 12:54:53 PM

This is a journal all about the progress of my two horses, Chinga and a young mare I am leasing called Jazzie. First, I#%92ll tell you a little bit about them both.
Chinga, who I#%92ve had for around two years now is nine years old, 16.1 hh and his a Thoroughbred who use to race but he ended up getting “banned for life” as he bled three times on the race track, when I first got him like many race horses he needed a lot of work. Although we later discovered he was abused and when we purchased him he was drugged. So we basically spent the first year re-training him and getting the basics down. The second year, he has become amazing. His improved in leaps and bounds. His dressage, still needs a lot of work but his coming along nicely and getting the general idea of things. His jumping is what has improved the most – he is fearless. Currently – he is on a five week spell, he has two weeks before he returns.

I took him out to a cross country training day and jumped 2* fences on him. He did well and didn#%92t refuse once. His show jumping has become so much better, he regularly picks the correct leads by himself and no longer rushes into fences.

Then there is the little four year old mare, who also is a Thoroughbred. She is a fair bit smaller then Chinga , she#%92s only 15hh. Her name is Jazzie, she knows a bit and is very calm and relaxed for her age. Yesterday, I took her to a show jumping training day. She rode so well, I discovered she likes to rush into fences a few strides before. But I also discovered how to ride her and soon she was cantering in nice and steady, without trying to rush at all. I jumped her the highest she has jumped, she did really well. Although she is blind in one eye and she did find one jump rather scary and she refused a few times but in the end she went over it confidently. Today I am planning on working her flatwork a bit, but keeping it small and basic as she struggles with her dressage and she also worked pretty hard yesterday. So she may be a bit tired. Shes lovely to tack up and takes the bit well and she isn#%92t bothered by the girth at all.

Chinga:

Jazz:

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EquinePrincess

Posted : 2/13/2011 12:56:29 PM

13-2-11

Hey,
Today I rode and lunged Jazz. She did so well, I'm very happy with her. Turns out shes only lunged a few times and she coped really well with it, at first she didn't really understand what I was asking her to do but she quickly got the idea of what was going on. I kept her at a walk today, but I still felt like she learned alot.

Riding wise, she did well. Worked on her gaits a bit, got her to relax some more and get her trot to canter transition more balanced. I also got her to slow down and think about what she was doing some more, overall. I'm very happy with how she did and she will be having tomorrow off. As she has worked pretty hard over the past two days.

Jazz.

Lunging her.

DaneHaven

Posted : 2/13/2011 2:19:21 PM

Welcome Equine, Chinga and Jazzie.
Beautiful horses and pics.

nancyly

Posted : 2/22/2011 3:01:01 AM

Beautiful pictures!!!

Horselover1984

Posted : 3/12/2011 10:20:34 AM

I love your horses there both very beautiful! Chinga has a lot of scope and looks like he could go far in show jumping. I have an ex racer who was abused aswell but looks like jazzie!