saddle spam

Happy Labor Day Weekend, folks! It’ll be a quiet one around here — long overdue! Tho naturally I have to have **something** to occupy my attention, so we’re deep into our Veritas Eximo dressage saddle trial!

Isn’t it pretty?? A little worn, sure, but in quite nice condition

Looks pretty good on the horse too — and let’s just pretend this saddle pad is the right shape. As far as I’m concerned, it’s #closeenough

I took legit about 8,000 pics of Doozy just standing here, and she looks kinda silly in 97% of them lol. I swear she is the prettiest little mare, but somehow the camera always catches her mid-expression haha.

It’s a nice saddle, tho. I like it. I think Doozy likes it, tho you know how it is with sensitive red mares… It can be hard to tell. Maybe a smarter person would use that chunk of change and buy a new horse instead of a new saddle. Ahem.

“Excuse me, but *I’m* the star here!!” — doozy, 100%

You know how it is, tho. I like the animal, and I want the full spectrum of tools to get the best out of myself and her. This saddle might just be a big part of that!

Tho. Frankly. I think part of my sorta #yolo attitude right now is just from being a bit tired from a long grind this summer. So realistically I’ll probably extend the trial to give myself a bit more space to decide for sure.

“ffs, are you done yet??” — pushy biscuit

Honestly expecting to roll with the brown bridle for a while tho bc… Eh, we try to keep things fairly consistent in the Land of Dooz. It ain’t exactly the worst picture tho, right?

Well. Ahem. Except our fancy new (consignment) bell boots suddenly rubbed the shit out of Doozy in our ride last night. Christ almighty, poor mare! It’s always gotta be something, amirite??

At least her skin funk cleared up again without evolving into full fledged skin moss omg. Small wins, but we’ll take it!! 

Anyway. That’s it from around these parts, hope y’all have a nice weekend too!