On 5/14/07, Laree Shulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please remember that a lot of the riding experinece at Alex's age is > about social interaction with the other kids and being able to > participate in the things that all the other kids are doing.
And that's why my daughter wanted to show in the first place--her friends were going. > Another option if she continues to want > to go to shows and gets discouraged because she isn't competitive is > that she could ride a school horse for the shows for awhile and Gat in > her lesson or between lessons. I suggested that but she doesn't want to ride any of the school horses in shows. She rides them occasionally in lessons and prefers Gat. > My daughters would > go to shows and compete against kids whose horses were ridden by a > trainer all week and then the kids were stuck up on them just for the > show. I didn't know that happened. Alex's friend just got a new Connemara pony that has been trained and shown successfully by her previous owner so even though this was Alex's friends first show, that pony won about 10 ribbons. Alex was happy for her friend but felt she had no chance against that pony. >You just > have to find the good parts of showing for kids and help them weed out > the rest. > This is all new to us both so if Alex continues with it we'll figure it out. V
