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Post by rachel on Jul 28, 2009 16:33:41 GMT -5
Hi! My name is Rachel && I'm new here to BITS. The game looks very active and everyone seems friendly, so I'm excited to begin playing. I plan mainly to focus on TB's who compete in eventing. I'd like to open up a private stable at first, and then if everything goes okay and I have enough time, turn it into a boarding stable. In real life I work for two different horse trainers, which equates to working at 4 different barns and riding 5 days a week, with multiple horses a day. It's pretty exhausting, but definitley worth it. One of my trainers focuses on classical dressage and some eventing, and the other trainer on jumping so I get the best of both worlds . I currently don't have my own horse, but it works out for the moment because I get to ride a wide varitey of horses. Although I am leasing a horse named Blazer, he's a 9 y/o TB gelding who I've been riding for about 5 years. We've gone through a LOT together, and we've had our bad moments lol but everything worked out and he's turned out to be an amazing and trusting horse. I'm also going to school and double majoring in biochemistry and math. Annd I think thats about it! I look forward to getting to know everyone here! --Rachel
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Post by Shelly on Jul 28, 2009 17:24:19 GMT -5
Welcome Rachel! I'm Shelly, and I own Equus Me, BITS Steeplechasing Association, and am helping with the BITS Stock Breed Registry. My company, Equus Me, is made up (stable wise) of Champion's Bid Ranch, home to all my stock horses, Hill Point Estate, home to my racehorses/steeplechasers, Fox Borrow Lane, which houses my... sporthorses... and Windcrest Miniatures, the newest branch, which houses my Minis. I'm currently working on the BITS Pony Registry, which will -hopefully- be up next week. In real life I don't own any horses - they were sold two summers ago now. I have a Labrador name Trigger and I'm looking for a Border Collie to call my own. I plan on showing dogs in 4H and I also started on photography for 4H. Hm. Oh, I also have been designing this forum I write a monthly 'review' of shows, horses for sale, stallions at stud, ect. and I also feature a horse from the Rescue Company. For August though I plan on turning it into an actual newsletter of sorts... hehe. Anways... Have fun venturing into BITS
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Post by Rainbow on Aug 1, 2009 16:40:34 GMT -5
Hey Rachel, and welcome to BITS!
You sound like a fabulously busy person lol. Math and biochem AND working for two trainers? Wow. I admire you for it, that's for sure.
Anyways, I'm Rainbow, one of the admins here. I own Wildwind equestrian Centre in the game, focusing on dressage, hunters, and jumpers.
In real life, I am in the process of finalising a half-lease of a 10y/o Thoroughbred gelding named Chilly. I ride mostly dressage but do some jumping on the side for fun. It's great that one of the trainers you work for is a classical dressage trainer!
I recently got back from living in the UK for ten months. Aside from riding, I love reading, writing, traveling, and photography.
Out of curiosity, how difficult are you finding it to double-major? I understand if you don't want to answer this, but where do you go to school? I'm currently in the college-searching process (I'll be a senior in high school this year, finally), with my top choice being George Washington University at the moment. I am planning to double-major in either history and English or history and education, depending on the school I attend.
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Post by rachel on Aug 1, 2009 17:52:09 GMT -5
It's actually not THAT challenging to double major, but that may be in part that I like both of the subjects. Also biology and chemistry have a lot of math components, so being a math major has some tie ins to the sciences. I think it would be different if I chose to major in say, chemistry and sociology because they really don't have much to do with each other. Your two majors aren't too different so I think it'd probably be relativley easy for you too. My advice is to just do it lol, you only live once, right? And if for some reason it didn't work out you could always go back to only having one major. Since so many people are getting college degrees now, I think its important to do something to make yourself stand out in the job world, and double majoring is one way to do that. I currently go to santa rosa junior college, which, might I add lol, its in the top 5 JC's in the country. There is a state school really close by as well(sonoma state university) and many students have been to both and decided they got a better education at the JC. I just had to throw that in there because most people don't have any respect for JC's lol . I'm planning on transfering to UC Davis, UW(university of Wisconsin) Madison, or Stanford, I REALLY wanted to transfer to Harvard, but I found out recently they don't accept transfer students TB's are the best so I'm sure the one your about to lease is amazing! I used to think dressage was boring, but this trainer really opened up my eyes and taught me how important it is! I mean, not every horse needs to learn how to do a piaffe, lol but the basic latteral movements like leg yielding and shoulder in are really important and can benifit every horse. Thats good that you jump too! Its sooo fun, I think the horses really enjoy it too Anyways, sorry this is an extremely long post, I think I'll stop blabbering now
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Post by Rainbow on Aug 1, 2009 20:25:53 GMT -5
Awesome. Thanks for that -- it's reassuring lol. I love both subjects and I'm pretty passionate about learning and stuff, so I think it makes sense for me. And I just have to throw out there that I have a friend who goes to UW-Madison and loves it. It's a great school for the maths and sciences. That is, if you want to leave California haha. And I lose no respect for you because you're at a junior college -- you're still double-majoring in two subjects when I would probably die if I majored in one or the other (I pretty much maxed out my math abilities with pre-calc and statistics, which I did not understand at ALL. Plus, I am pretty much really bad at science in general. Words, dates, and other languages make a lot more sense to me than numbers.).
Chilly is amazing lol. While I was in the UK, I rode an Irish Cob who was a brilliant ride and who I miss, but I did miss my Thoroughbreds while I was gone. And yeah -- I think everyone needs to have a basic dressage grounding. There is a video I posted (on the discussion board) not too long ago where a dressage horse and a reining horse do a pas-de-deux. Also, I think we dressage riders need to step out of the box every once in a while too -- whether it be trail riding, jumping, whatever. I know that jumping had HUGE benefits for my leg position. Plus it was fun. Lol. And I agree -- I think most horses love jumping. But a lot of horses out there enjoy dressage, too.
Psht, no worries... Mine's pretty long too. I'm famous for rambling.
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