2014 Goals & January Goals

Last year I found myself sort of floundering from one poorly-made plan to the next so I thought that this year I should get back to goal making. I'd like to do annual and monthly but you will have to bear with me as I see how that goes.

2014 Goals

Gatsby

• Recover well from tendon injury and get back to full work.
• Compete in 1-2 horse trials, combined tests, etc.
• Compete in a couple local dressage shows.
• Stay happy, healthy, sound and fit.

Depending on how the remainder of his rehab goes, I'd like to shoot for a HT in April, probably at Novice since he's coming back from the injury. If that goes well I'd like to do a Training event or two sometime over the course of the season, all depends on travel, work and finances. Mostly I want him to stay healthy this year but I would love to be able to look back at this time next year and see some concrete progress being made, especially in our dressage work.

Kanye

• Be confident on the lunge line, working freely and with lunge tack.
• Develop a solid basic under saddle skills. Be able to WTC and possibly jump small courses.
• Do as many new things as possible, trail rides, new places, etc.
• Possibly compete at a very low-level at a local schooling show.

January Goals

Gatsby

• Successfully move up to 20 minutes of trot-work by the end of the month.
• Start to re-develop muscles and fitness.
• Lots of lateral work at the walk. I'd really like to improve our technique here and get everything going correctly before we start asking for it at the trot again.
• Be able to do our trot-work on the track with NO explosions.

Kanye

• Learn to ground-drive.
• Start work on the lunge line with the faux-ssoa system.
• Make progress on pony rides, NO BITING!

That's actually quite a bit for both of them so we'll have to see what actually gets done with my work schedule and all. Right now I'm looking at getting to the barn around 6:30 for my morning rides just so I can fit them in! Daylight Savings, get here faster!!!