Thirzie Pony

Thirzie (otherwise known as thirza) is the most amazing pony to walk this earth. She is moody, grumpy and old but deep down she's lovely. She's taught me a lot in the small 6 months of me owning her, from how I can't make her do anything, to learning how to actually get on with her kicking out. 


Thirzie is a 14hh, 15 year old Clydesdale Welsh Cob cross. She is often extremely fat, (especially when i haven't had the chance to ride her for a week!) but i think if she shrunk, i'd be too big for her. I bought her from Leslie Vale, from Marcia who owned her for roughly around two years. 


Firstly we were out at richmond at my old riding school, but that was way overpriced and wasn't that great. so we drove up the drive of bowen banks and jen said she had a spot and ta daaa, we moved to bowen banks. i'm so glad we moved there cause it's heaps closer to pc, and other places. we've jumped about grade 3 over the log near the bottom arena (and in my opinion jen needs to get more xc & sj stuff!) and we've done quite a fair bit of training there. yeah some of the people that ride there piss me off (like majorly) but its worth it. plus i can get fit and loose weight walking to her paddock cause its like a kilometre long, and her paddock is like 5 acres.....


The trip to bruny with ash & thirzie was pretty good, except for the reeeeaaally long two hour float trip. riding on the beach, riding around our 38 acres, riding out on the track, to the beach at home (till we got kicked off the beach!) and yeah. Lots of fun :)

So our first comp was at Huntingfield and was an ODE. Grade five was a fail. ahhaha, no practise, no idea what it would be like. but we rocked up and yeeeaaah. eliminated in dressage, eliminated in showjumping, and scratched from x country. 

then we decided we'd go to pc, woooow, she was simply amazing. she loved it! for a seriously non social horse, she was social! very funny to watch her try to get away with bucking during flatwork, but she was amazing at jumping and games and more jumping in the afternoon (about 70cm!) and yeah. I love my pony.

PC for the very first time

Bruny Island <3

that kid named Soph Evans

there's that kid called soph evans who is amazing. she's like a simply awesome rider (and most likely be a pro and ride for the australian team when she's older cause she's just that amazing) and her horsie Georgie is the cutest horsie going around :) 


best ever quote from soph: 


‎'Was that you trying to canter during the flat'?
'Haha, erm, yes..'


ahahaha, makes me laugh every single time kiddo :) 


that soph kid is so amazingly pretty, that even Jen Hawkins is scared to go on the cat walk because soph out does her in the prettyness section (don't even know that there is a prettyness section but anyways..) 


to sum that soph kid up, she is amazing, stunningly gorgeous, and is the most amazing rider. 


I LOVE SOPH EVANS <3

The Long Weekend

K, so I spent two out of my four days watching horse riding. Not just any horse riding, but state pc trials (and for you that don't know what the abbreviation "pc" is, it means pony club). Some of the kids that rode were pretty amazing, while others were just simply not. There were some pretty nice & humble kids there, but once again, there were spoilt, rich, demanding kids, that if their horse wasn't ride, would blame the horse and the parents and demand a different horse. I'd love a $5000 horse, but in reality I or my parents just can't afford that. Wow, and the saddles, expensive, 1000's of dollars worth in amazing saddles that are "designed to improve you & your performance". ppppffffttt yeah right. 


Haha, one day I can imagine myself competing at these things, but not on Thirza. She's too old, too small and really just doesn't have the temperament. I certainly couldn't do anything above grade 4. 


Anyways, back to the complaining about kids & rich kids. Woooow, there were quite a few little people on MASSIVE horses. And by massive, I mean, people who are what, 5 foot 3 are on freaking 17 handers! Maaan, I'd be too scared to jump nearly a metre (or over a metre for that fact) on a huge horse that is a looooong way to the ground if you fall. That's just seriously wrong and totally asking for trouble. I mean, what if the horse bolts, you're not ever going to have control over that beast. And that small like person my age on a 17hh percheron, who rides something that big when you're smaller than me! And then there's those kids that piss me off the most. The one's that actually FORCE the horse over the jump, whacking it with the whip, kicking like there's no tomorrow, and oh, to top it off, yelling at it, "GET UP!", I'm not sure that really works. Most of those ones happen to have some of the worst positions, and plus, they all have  spurs on....umm I thought western riders wore spurs? OR really really really really really experienced riders that have ridden for like 15 years! K, not really criticizing the people that can actually ride (with spurs), but if you know you have an unstable lower leg, why wear spurs that could potentially hurt your horse? 


Those riders that flew round that slippery spot today, and nearly risked their horses falling, all for what? A few seconds shaved off their time and to beat their main rivals? I honestly think thats stupid. That poor grey horse with the rider that just couldn't slow him down, really shouldn't be riding. That poor grey horse, I wouldn't be surprised if the rider said to their mum that they didn't want that horse anymore because it was too injured and they couldn't be bothered resting it and just want to compete compete compete. 


END OF RANT!


I must say congratulations to all the fantastic riders who did an amazing job of keeping their horses together and did well :) 

This is who I am.

Who I Am. 

Well that question bothers me a fair bit. 


Who am I? 


So I'm called Emily, yeah so what. That doesn't define who I am. It's just a name. Yeah, I'm 14, but I don't feel it. 


I hate people stuffing me around, people who can be indecisive, and people who put their input or opinion in when it's not wanted. It's impossible to avoid all of these people, but I guess you just have to put up with it. There's certain people like that in my "friends" group at school. Not naming names. 


I don't take any shit from anyone anymore. I had to put up with enough of it last year, and I'm not willing to deal with it anymore. Either physically or mentally. I stick up for myself, and voice my opinions. I don't care what people think about me anymore. It's too exhausting. 


I am a horse rider, and own one horse. Mum leases a horse, but I think in a month or two, once the novelty's worn off, I imagine that Zabby will become mine for the rest of the lease. Thirza is simply amazing, words can not describe how amazing she is. We have our moments, but we get through them, and now that times gone on, we have less of them. I love her with my heart, and neither of us are perfect, but we can always try. She has given my best friend her confidence back, nothing is as priceless as that. I'm extremely proud of Amy to get on Thirz, especially after Vic. 


Zabby, well I'm not sure what to think of this guy yet. He seems cheeky, yet, untrusting. If he was a human, I swear he would be one of those people that you think you know, but you really don't. Their lives are kept top secret, and no one knows anything about them really. I think over time, we'll both get confident enough that maybe we'll go to PC together, and possibly some kind of show.  


Hockey is also another thing, although, I'm considering giving it up. Yeah yeah, its a team sport and I should do more of these blah blah blah. It just makes it difficult when people are on there, and you just don't really get on with, and its awkward. And no body speaks to each other after the seasons over anyway. They all just go on with the usual lives, and only speak to each other if its really necessary, or to ask a question to do with hockey. It is fun, its good to smash out all your anger and frustrations on some poor kid on the opposition, but I think thats what everyone is there on the turf for anyway. 


School. Well thats another whole topic on itself. I used to enjoy it, now I'm not so sure. People change, there is the inevitable bitching and gossiping, and all the teachers pretend to be in the know about it. Yeah, nah. Seriously, if they kept their noses out of it half the time, half of it would never happen. Last years issues have been resolved, but although it doesn't involve me, you can see it happen to someone else. Supposed friends gossiping about you behind your back, stealing boy's numbers out of your phones, adding your best friends on facebook, its always going to happen, as long as we're all still at school. No one gives a stuff about who's reading it, or who deletes it, its just all for popularity. People feel safe about having a screen between them, and the bitching. I know one person who was definitely like that. It's talked about all over school, between grades. Dah. Gossip spreads fast. 


Well my friends are basically what makes me me. Here's a few mentions:


Amy Pennington - You are the most amazing best friend I have ever had. I remember when I first met you, you seemed waaaay older than me, and I was so jealous of you riding Rose. I found you on facebook, added you, and I was so scared when I first sent that first chat message to you! I'm so glad I did though, because I don't know what my life would be like without you. I can bitch about anyone with you, and I know, that without you I would probably be a mess. I love how I can go riding with you, and you never criticise me for the way I do things, and that we can go so long without speaking to each other (Mt Hotham & Fiji :P) and we talk like it was only yesterday that we last talked. You supported me and listened to me, all throughout last year, and didn't talk to me like I was some 3 year old. To be honest, I probably wouldn't here today if it weren't for you. You are simply amazing and I trust you with everything. I love you <3


Tori Mellor - Well well well Miss England ;) I have to say, I never thought that we would ever be friends, cause I remember you being pissed off when I first began helping out, but we quickly got over that. We had the best times with Liv, haha especially in the hay shed that time! Then when you left I was so devo cause I thought, well that was our friendship over, but it turned out that it was just the beginning. We chatted on facebook, didn't see each other for aggeeesss, but we finally caught up when I was back from Fiji, and we've been tight ever since :) we've dealt with Gretel's issues, especially after my little stack in axiom way, and you finally convinced me to join PC. Then all our sleepovers, especially the most recent with your mum coming in at like midnight and yelling at us, and then we were so freaked out when the torch light came around! Haha and how I answered "uhm not really." and your mum got pissed off at me too. Hahaha, and the whole "or is it, or am i?" thing with Harriette and James, and how we got so pissed off at them! All the bitching we do too ;) I'm sure we'll have many awesome times to come :) 


Alyssa Cane - mmmm well now, I have so many memories with you, I don't know where to begin. K, well, I suppose we were little kiddlets and we met cause your brother was like, yeah I have a sister, and we met and yeah. BAM. Then we always had our little pathetic although funny fights over Barbie's and the stables and I would storm home all huffy and puffy and we wouldn't speak for a week. Then you'd always hibernate in the winter "oh yes, you probably won't see me much, I'll be inside most of winter." and then you did ballet and I remember riding up to your place on my little bike, and then seeing people you did ballet with at your door, and I remember pedaling home all upset. Then I moved to St Cuthberts in year 5, and Amy Breen would look me up and down and I remember thinking "wtf are you looking at?!". After year 6, I went to smc, and you were all like "I swear you'll change in high school, and we won't be friends anymore." now now now, I wasn't the one that changed hey! We were still tight when I was in year 7, then you left St Cuthy's and you went to Mt Carmel, and then I swear you left me allllll behind. I would barely see you, and when I did, it was a flying visit and we kinda lost touch a bit. Towards the end of the year, I was lucky to see you once a month, and we barely caught up over summer. I still remember the days when we were riding our bikes all over the neighbour hood, maaaan, we must've pissed some people off, and then that time we would go for a walk, come back, go on the trampoline for like an hour, then you'd go home at 5pm. And that time when we threw the water bombs over to the neighbours roof, and some didn't burst so they decided to throw them back. LOL. Yeeeah, we had a lot of memories, and I'm not sure there will be many to come. Who knows what fate decides. but SMILE :)