Hunter Show Date Change!

The Hunter Show scheduled for September 13 has been changed to September 6, 2008! Please correct your calendar!

Horse Show Pictures!

Today's Hunter show was a lot of fun!
The first class was the costume class.



Courtney and Eternal Tail Wind Patriotic Costume


Krystal, Buddy and Britney, Egyptian Arabian, Authentic Costume


Emmy and Cypress Moonbar, Mardi Gras Masquerade.

Allyssa and Reo, Statue of Liberty Costume

Buddy and Cincinnati, Civil War Horse Costume--for which he was named (Cincinnatti was a Civil War General's horse).

Chelsea and Cameo, Going to aerobics class in the 80's



Ariona and Mishief Maker in their Flower Princess Costume
Great Job everyone!

Hunter Show this Saturday!!

Let us know if you want to participate. If you are a student give me a call. If you are from else where preentries are due by Thursday..phone or email gustywind@alltel.net. Post entries are also accepted.

See the entry form and prize list links on the right side.
If you are interested in showing and I don't snail mail to you please drop me an email WITH you address and I will add you to the list.

Charlotte

Horse Camp!

Everyone had a super splendid time at Camp! Personally think the most meaningful part of camp was noticed in the next lesson after camp. I could see such phenomenal amounts of progress in every single student!

Allyssa and Buddy

Courtney and Kassee (Royal Tail Wind)

Abby and Cincinnatti
Autumn happily eating grass but wiggling out of her flysheet with fellow campers Ashley, Emmy, Courtney, and Allyssa.



VIDEOS CLICK TO VIEW
Ashley cantering on Kolt






Emmy takes a bareback ride on Kolt.








Courtney trots Autumn







Courtney canters Autumn







Allyssa trots bareback on Buddy







Allyssa trots Reo







More trotting







Abby canters Cinncinatti bareback (a little)







Ashley canters Kolt





Ashley and Kolt





Buddy trots Chippy








More Buddy and Chippy




Emmy and Long Legs







Emmy and Long Legs trotting again








Abby and Valentine




Abby and Valentine canter



Kathryn and Reo

Introduction to Horses and Riding-2008

WOW! We had a good time. The students advanced from very little knowledge of horses to being able to lead and groom the horses following safety rules. They also learned the basic position and how to guide the horses. Two of the girls, decided to continue riding and have started trotting!

Take a look!

Gusty Wind goes to Local Dressage Show

We went on Saturday to a Dressage Show. Kelsey rode Memphis, Kathleen rode April Morning and Abigail rode Cincinnatti.

Abigail rode Training Level Test 1 & Training Level Test 2 in the Junior classes. She earned a 58% and a 59% which earned her second place in both of her classes.

Kelsey and Memphis went in Training Level Test 1 & Test 2 in the Senior classes. (Welcome to the big time Kelsey!) She earned a 54% (Memphis was a little upset in the first ride) and a wonderful 62%. Her placings were fifth and third place.

Kathleen and April Morning went in Training Level Tests 1 & 2 in the Senior classes. She earned a 58% and a 59%; Fifth in the first class and Third place in the second class! Great job!

I was very proud of everyone's performance at the show!

Advanced Camp More Pictures and Video

Pictures from the last day of camp.

The girls on their way down to ride in the bottom ring. From left to right Kathleen on Long Legs, Kelsey on Memphis, Ariona on Luke, Taylor on Buddy, and Abigail on Cincy.

Emmy and Tejas love watching jumping.
The girls celebrating with a cake. Kathleen had 5 "blackberry free" days. Thanks for the cake Taylor!

CLICK BELOW TO VIEW VIDEOS! These are from youtube so you might need to get some kind of download from there to view these, but I think that you can just watch them. They upload faster and take less file space on the website if I do it this way.




Ariona and Luke



Kelsey on Memphis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDWT8PFffWw

Kelsey and Memphis again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1MJjO3Hs1k

Taylor and Buddy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VWiQDoDWBg

Taylor and Buddy Again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DiG6ztoqls
Even though it rained camp was great. They got to go on cross country a few times and on several trail rides. They got to play bare back, switch horses, practice Dressage tests, and eat cake!