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Every rider has a Bucket List of equestrian activities they'd like to achieve some day if possible.
Mine include but are not in anyway limited to the following:
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General goals
- Try side-saddle, you have got to check out Equestrian Reality's hilarious blog to find out where my enthusiasm has come from.
- Try Western
- Try Polo - I really want to go back to Argentina for a week of this!
- Learn to Drive Nancy
- Learn Horseback Archery - the equine osteo i use for the horses does it!
Ride on the beach- Done August 2013!
Ride my own horse(s) on a beach- Links to posts about our 2 week adventure on the Dutch coast.- One, Two, Three - I am once again reminded that I STILL haven't gotten the few beach photos off my friend *Le-Shame*
- Go to Aachen, Hickstead, Olympia, Mechelen, Badminton and/or Burghley and any of the big Parisienne indoor SJ Paloozas (ie: Saut Hermes, Gucci Masters etc) ... heck any and all other horse events within traveling distance would be epic!
- Hit up as many neighbouring Global Champion Tour legs as possible - First - LGCT Antwerp - April 2014
- Go to Kentucky in general & particular the KHP, maybe for a Rolex weekend if I can swing it
- Spruce Meadows - Calgary
- Go on a trekking and/or safari on horseback holiday
- Adding Horse takeover of NYC's Central Park, I am hoping this becomes and annual event - so that i might get there some day .
Personal riding goals
- Return to working on lateral work with Kika namely leg yielding & shoulder in, L works on it with her but I haven't done any in ages as I never felt comfortable doing it on my own so don't want to give mixed messages.
- Do more work on flying changes and learn to ask for them without the help of a pole over which to ask for the change (only time I've done it - thankfully she changes herself when jumping and/or the jumps we are doing low enough for the moment that if she is wrong we can still get over them)
- Learn to turn on the haunches & forehand
- Keep working on the basics with Nancy and develop our bond.
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As with any equestrian, this list is subject to change as goals are ticked off and new ones born!
PS: All photos have been pinched c/o google images & I claim no copyright!
Last updated December 2014
This is such a good idea! I also have a list but not as specific as yours. Mine is just on my phone. I have crossed off going to the beach with my horse yay. But since my accident i had to pause on everything else.
ReplyDeleteHope you achieve them all soon! xx
Sorry to hear about your accident, hopefully you can find new ways of achieving your goals and/or think up different ones.
DeleteThank you for commenting & reminding me of this page...must get back to trying to tick some of these items off my list & dreaming up some more ☺
Do you still want to learn horse archery and polo? As i have the same goals in my Equibingo. We could probably team-up to achieve them :-)
ReplyDeleteOops so late replying to this earlier! No idea how I missed it!
DeleteThis would be awesome 👍😅