My first full day at camp started with getting up at 7:30, 4:30 California time. We got ready for our first practice day had breakfast and headed over to the practice grounds about an hour from where we were staying. We started out by getting on each of the horses we had for our demo just to see what they felt like and how they moved. There was a big Belgian from Washington, named Jake; a black warmblood, named Leo; and a beautiful bay roan from Texas, named Gus. After trying each of the horses we split into two teams and tried to come up with routines to put on the horses..Without using a barrel because they apparently had not arrived yet. So we made up things on the ground and tried some of those moves on the horse but couldnt really finalize anything because our coach was practicing with the South African team.
After dinner we went outside where it was about 40 or 50 degrees to practice on the barrels that finally arrived. Our coach had us show her what we came up with, she approved most of it but did take out a section to have as a seperate routine.
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