Liz Howell

Archive for the ‘Revy’ Category

Here it is only Tuesday and I feel like a week has already passed.  Sunday some folks from Venezuela came out to try Revy and see if she was suitable for sending back to their country. Revy in her normal slow self did very well for everyone even though no one had spurs on. I rode her and three men rode her and she did just fine. I kept offering spurs to them but they all refused. Anyway they bought her and she will be in her new foreign country in about 3 weeks or so. She is going to have to learn to speak Spanish though as I don't know if they know English riding terms or not. I was sad to see her go but at least now she will have a job and not be a pasture pet.  Sudden threw an absolute fit about her leaving and I felt so bad for her.

Revy went to the horse show 9-12-09 and this time actually got to show. She took two first and 3 seconds. I showed her in two halter classes and Audra showed her in three riding classes. I am glad Audra was riding her because twice she got so excited and bucked up a little. I have no doubt I would have come off but Audra rides so much that she just worked her right through it and kept on going. Thats the bad thing about babies ya just gotta keep riding and taking them places before they settle down and work properly. Unfortunately age and gravity have made that impossible for me to do anymore.

I don't know how Audra does it. She rode her mare to the high point English win, rode my horse in the show, went home and loaded up one of her other horses to take to the barrel race and Sunday is going on a trail ride with some friends.

Me, I am flat wore out and my feet are killing me today after all the cleaning and banding and walking and cleaning again that I had to do to Revy.  I swear she was laughing at me every time I would get her clean and she would go get dirty again. I had put a brand new maroon slinky on her the night before to help keep her bands down and hopefully keep her clean and much to my dismay the next morning I took it off and I had a pink horse with pink bands. I bathed her again the morning of the show to no avail, she was going in pink. One of the guys at the show asked me if I was trying to start a new fad, I just laughed and said "hadn't planned on it but guess so".

Here are some new pics of her, she really was a pretty good girl.

Well she didn't actually go in the show, but she was ridden among all the other riders and horses during the lunch break. She is doing very well with her training and Audra really likes her. She said she has been very easy to train and quick to learn.  She was excited being around all the other horses but did quite well, even when one horse stopped abruptly in front of her she just swerved and kept going. Here are a couple of pics that I took.