Here’s an update!

After my amazing 2012 working student experience working for Lainey Ashker...

 I came home. I hadn’t seen my family or my best friends in 5 months so I focused on them, thought about school, and my next plans for a bit.

In December of 2012, I began working for Earl and Jen McFall at their own Dragonfire Farm in Wilton, CA. I’ve since had the opportunity to ride very nice horses and increase my horsemanship skills. Jen and Earl helped me along with my horse Sunny when we got back from Virginia and a few months later I started off the season at training level with the hopes to compete at Rebecca Farms Training 3 Day. Which we successfully did. The cross country course was 7 minutes long! My kind of heaven right there! (Thank you Earl and Jen!) Then we competed at our first prelim a few weeks after Rebecca Farms, I thoroughly enjoyed the bigger fences, tougher courses and faster speeds!

I also began grooming for the McFalls at the horse shows we went to just getting to know them and their horses.  Especially Jen’s now four star horse High Times or “Billy.” This year I have been grooming for them without my own horse being there sadly. I am now trying to sell Sunny so I can move up the eventing levels.

Since I have been home, I have been going to the local community college to work on the general education requirements. It’s been a challenge for me to juggle school and horses but where there’s a will there’s a way! “Horses” includes my many jobs too! Three to four days a week I drive 35 minutes to Georgetown to ride hunter and jumper ponies, it is the perfect job for me because it’s outside, flexible and I get paid to jump ponies! Two days a week I go to Dragonfire to teach lessons to The Dragonfire Academy students, and then I usually ride horses and do any kind of barn work on Saturday and sometimes the same thing on Sunday.

This year has been especially exciting at Dragonfire because we had a goal in mind to compete at a certain big spring event back east… ROLEX!