Make a Wish Foundation Celebration Fundraiser at Ocala Equestrian Complex... Savvy Team performing. Putting bows on a pony carrying roses to sell for the cause...

Helping with check in for fast track, 50 + people and horses!

Externship - DAY 27 - Working Cow Horse Show

Ocala Equestrian Complex Reining Cow Horse Competition... AMAZING! So happy to see this as this is what I want to do! Pat, Caton, John, Peter, Jake and Kallie competed... I met Marc De Champlain, the recommended teacher and trainer by Pat for the reining cow horse area. I plan on working with him a for a couple of weeks, just right aftern my externship so I can start on some specialization and work on it throughout the summer before my internship to set myself up for success for my internship! I am so very much excited, I asked Pat about what he thinks about my plan and he smiled and said go for it! I will go for it! Keep me in your thoughts and prayers, I need to pass with an 80% to make it into the internship...

Externship - DAY 26–Saddle Fitting Demo

We were lucky enough to find out that class didn’t start until 10:00 am! So we got up regular 6:00 am time, did chores and ran to the hotel where my parents stay and ate a wonderful breakfast. We came back to the center and attended the saddle fitting demo which talks about the topics covered at http://www.parellisaddles.com/…

It is our responsibility to learn how to become an expert rider for our horses benefit… this does not mean advanced maneuvers. It refers to Balance, Posture and Fluidity.

The demo was wonderful and say horses, and particularly one horse, transformed! An externs horse looked and acted like a TOTALLY different horse once ridden in a Parelli saddle, the crowd went crazy!

Later on Letitia and Tina helped Sundance and I…. great ideas, looks like I will be investing in some more shims for Fabio! I am staying in the nice spacious luxurious hotel with my family tonight, the shower is HUMUNGOUS!  It looks like we will be doing chores, laundry and going to support the Parelli Western Performance team for the local show on reining cow horses! How exciting, I will fill you in on that tomorrow… sweet dreams!