1st Post!

I started this blog so other people can follow my progress as a rider. To start off, I figure I should give just a little bit of information about my background. I started riding 7 years ago, with a very humble little training operation, where all I learned was walk/trot. After the trainer there stopped giving lessons, I moved on the a larger hunter/jumper show barn. Since that barn, I have gone through many lesson horses, a Paint mare that I leased, as well as a medium pony that I had hopes of Pony Finals with. I have bounced around quite a bit, from trainer to trainer, barn to barn, and even with what I wanted to get out of riding.
With the lesson horses, I was fine going to all of the little schooling shows, nothing could have made me happier! As I moved on to my first horse that I leased, April, I learned many things about my style of riding, and what I wanted in a horse. April was definitely a jumper, she was all about speed, so I started showing her in jumpers. I quickly learned that jumpers wasn't for me! After the lease on April ended, I began riding a pony that my trainer had just gotten in a trade, Panda. She was definitely a challenge, but she also turned out to be a very competitive hunter in the smaller schooling shows. We started winning almost every class we were in, so we began to look more towards the larger shows, the "A" circuit. We took her to an "A" show in May 2009, and ended up doing terribly! Of course, seeing as it was our first "A" show together, we just weren't prepared for it. After that year, her green status expired, so I am now too old to ride her, seeing as she is a medium pony.
About 2 months after the "A" show, an amazing offer came up. One of the boarders at the stable had a friend selling her 10 year old off the track Thoroughbred for an amazing price. We had been looking for a suitable horse for over a year and a half, so we decided to go check him out. When we arrived at the stable to try him out, he was seriously underweight, and he obviously hadn't had his feet trimmed in a very long time. He was also very fidgety, although I knew that was fairly normal for an OTTB. As soon as I got on him though, he was a changed horse. He had amazing work ethic, and put his entire head into what I was telling him to do. Later that week, I came home with my very own horse, Silent Run (aka "Sy"), something I could have only dreamed about two months before that!
So this is an overview of my riding career so far, and a little bit of information about my horse! I plan on using this blog to track Sy's progress and the shows that I compete in throughout my career as a Junior equestrian! Hope you enjoy!