Well, this weekend looks to be another busy one. I am going to try and head down to Ardmore with Mordis Friday night and just make a nice clean practice run, we are entered at Okemahs Rodeos Saturday nightin the Perf and The J Bar rodeo in the Slack. I am really getting motivated to haul again. It’s taken me this long since breaking my leg to get back into the going mood again.
Mordis and I have made some really great runs at home lately, I need him to put those runs together away from home.. Well, really he needs to me to relax and ride like I do at home. Yesterday I made a run on him here at the house that nearly brought tears to my eyes. FINALLY… FINALLY we are back in sync and we smoked a run here. The ground here at home is a little trashy. But, Mordis is starting to handle himself better, and he is really working in all ground good.
Back to our run here at home… I was super agressive, I whipped him to the first barrel, he was rolling. I don’t know that he has ever been shipped to the first that hard, I did check him when he for there and he inhaled it. I totally pumped me up, after he smoked that barrel I got super agressive and rode him like I wanted it… I even pumped my arms across the pen, and smooched to him, whipped him to the third and whipped him out. My Dad was even impressed which is a feat in its own.
The big thing right now is my whipping… I am working on my whipping, I can WHIP like a JOCKEY really well, right handed… I have a hard time whipping left handed. And going to the 2nd and 3rd barrel I need to whip Mordis but when I whip him right handed he lugs in away from the whip a little… I basicly need to either over and under him or learn to whip left handed better, so we are sorting this out now. Jackie and I talked about it today, she is a great great great tool to have in the tool box. Jackie Dube is a great barrel racer, a great coach, and an AMAZING FRIEND… People can say whatever they want about her, the TRUTH of it all is in the end it’s her dust they are eating. I can only hope I end up having the desire to win, and the understanding of my horse that she has.
Training colts was a great thing to have in my tool box, now stepping up and being a Jockey is a whole new ball game, and a new set of tools hahaha… I am just really blessed to have the great people behind me helping me and pushing me… But, mostly Jackie threw highs and lows she is a TRUE winner and I am so glad I have her. She is a great pep talker, and she can really line you out and get you in the right mind set to GO WIN… Talent, Skill, and a good horse are only HALF of what makes a winner, I would say at least half of winning is the mind set you are in when you head down the ally. You have to want it, crave it, you have to live it… Jackie has helped me a ton to get mentally prepared… SO now Mordis and I need to get out there and put the runs together away from home we make at home. But, he is still young so I also have to be more forgiving and way less hard on myself when things aren’t pefect!
Tara
