An Interesting Day

Well, today I learned a lot. Rain had her first outing at a small, local schooling show. I was so excited to go and I had all these lovely visions in my head of her being great and us doing so well... lets just say those didn't end up happening like I had hoped. Over the past two weeks, Rain has really started to catch on with everything and been so so good. With all this progress, I figured it'd be a good idea to take her to this little schooling show just to get her out. She was like a different horse when I got on her at the showgrounds, and definitely not in a good way. Yes, I was expecting her to be a little different, since it was her first show. But, I was not expecting her to be this different. I got on her and she decided it'd be a good day to toss her head every five seconds, which wasn't that big of a deal, although she never does that at home. What was the worst was when in our w/t/c classes, she decided she would absolutely not pick up the correct lead either direction and she'd throw a temper tantrum and go up and down. Not cool Rain.. not cool. This was so not the horse I have at home, Rain has never bucked or hopped or anything at home, and has only picked up the wrong lead twice in the two months I've had her. I guess it was just nerves and stress, but it made for a frustrating day :( But, i'll keep riding her and getting better and better and we'll keep going to some fun little schooling shows to hopefully relax and let her learn it doesn't have to be stressful and scary :) On a side note.. I thought it was pretty funny that Fanny decided to jump the electric fence between her and another empty paddock beside hers while I was gone today. The electric fence is a good 4 and a half feet tall and Fanny is generally pretty lazy at home.. maybe she was mad I didn't take her to the show?(;

                              Rain in the warm up at the show today!

It's a good thing she's so cute ;)