Author Archives: Victoria Waters

It’s Christmas day! After opening gifts at the crack of dawn, a hearty Christmas breakfast, and a few hours spent cleaning up while the kids play with their new gadgets, I head to the barn around 1:00. Today, I decide, I am going to let Jaliska just run around the indoor. I get to her more »

Christmas Eve is here and it’s family time. After reading yesterday’s blog entry to my daughter she insists that we build a fire and read stories in front of it like we used to. So after dinner and the customary opening of one gift on Christmas Eve, I proceed to read them a story in more »

It is almost Christmas! And all I want for Christmas is for Jaliska to go to Florida to train and compete for the winter. It would be a dream come true. So I pose the question to Jaliska while tacking her up for our ride.  “J,” I say, “it’s up to you. If you want to go more »

Well the mystery behind Jaliska switching her hind legs in canter is solved. The vet checked her today and apparently she has a sore back. Go figure. The vet administers pulsating shock waves (a treatment commonly used on injured Grand Prix horses), gives her a chiropractic adjustment and shows me a stretching routine to do with her. Within a week she is practically as good as more »

Last night was the holiday party at the barn. I took these videos of the kids setting up courses and jumping them. They were having great fun. I recall “cantering” around the back pasture when I was about their age. Oh the joy of being young, carefree, and so easily entertained. I really love this more »

It is my first lesson in over a week. I haven’t been able to ride as I have had the flu. This didn’t stop me from putting in a full week at the office (I love my job!), but I was too weak to ride. It is not a good idea to be lightheaded and more »

Today I did not feel so hot. I thought about cancelling my lesson but I decided to tough it out. I was excited that Katrina was back in our group lesson again. She had been busy riding the hunt every Saturday since it started back up in the fall. So it was the three musketeers more »