Cross Country Schooling

Yesterday Cassidy and I went Cross COuntry schooling at Loch Moy with Cathy. (wow that's a lot of Cs) I was terrified I was going to fall off or get hurt or bad things would occur. But it turned out to be an AWESOME day and I LOVE SATCHMO!!! :D First we worked on the ditch. That was scary for Satchmo but Smash practically walked in it *lol* so after a few attempts Satchmo finally tried, too, found out it wasn't so bad and then had no problem! We then went to the Water. dundundun! Our Nemisis! This was much more challenging as Smash was scared, too. We spent the first 10 min getting Smash in the water and then the next 15 getting Satchmo in. The poor thing was SO scared he was shaking!! I've never seen a horse THAT scared of the water! LOL! He finally went in, though, and I think he actually had fun in the water once he got in there! Silly boy! So then we went over to the bank which wasn't a problem at all (weird) and rode a couple made up courses that included all of the elements :) Satchmo was like a real Eventing horse! And Smash did so well, too!! What an awesome day! We got home and poticed them both and they got some star treatment ;) Such good ponies! Today will be show prep day and then tomorrow will be our big event! Here's hoping Satchmo remembers our schooling tomorrow *hope*