Mini Events

Today I went to Baby Barrington to meet up with a client, and watched a few xc rides. It was definitely not at all what I was expecting!!!!!

Mini Events xc is just a big turf derby field, with little tiny jumps sprinkled all over the place. I think I offended one of the trainers there, I asked (which, in retrospect, I understand was pretty bitchy sounding, but I ABSOLUTELY didn't intend for it to come out bitchy) "Is this the whole course?" LOL because it wasn't much bigger than our derby field at Telluride.

So then I text & proceeded to call my friend Betsi and talked to her for a while about it. We agreed that eventing seems to be something that JC is going to rule at, and it just seems like fun. I'm just going to look for events that are about 3' (so they're good competition for us, bc the 2'6" that I watched today wouldn't be fair for us to do. Most of the riders trotted the course...And Jimmy could do that course blindfolded, at a gallop....not fair) and look for mini events with cash back. The Maui Jim Horse Trials Eventing Derby this year would be absolutely perfect for us. I don't want to push him to be ready by August of this year, because he can just come back to being ridden in early July. I want to give him as much time as he needs to recover. Maybe by this fall we can find someone to give us a ride to Fox Valley for on of their IDCTA shows or something.

So that'd be a blast for end of this year - or sometime next year. Eventing. I'll need a vest...anyone have one I can buy...or borrow eventually? I'm 5'6" / 130lbs. :-D

Jimmy himself was wonderful today. Very cheerful. Mom and I went to see "Letters to Juliet" and then went out to take care of Jimmy. The wraps still look perfect!!! I will definitely be able to leave them until Monday. MONEY!!!

I hid some carrots for him in his stall so he would have something to do for a while :) He watched me hide them, so he went right in and found some:


Then I wanted to give him a kiss goodbye...and realized the joke was on me! He REALLY found the carrots:


He was very proud of how crafty he was in "Find the Carrots"


Adequan tomorrow!! I cannot wait until he's better. 50ish days ;-)