Dara's 2nd race since Oct. 25

There have been 2 NBHA's for this new year. The first one was at Cleburne Indoor arena. This is usually her favorite arena. She took it very slow and easy...can you blame her? That was the first time she has been around the barrels since her accident. She got a no time in the youth, and did a 20 something in the open...not too bad I guess. This past Sat. was another one. This time it was at Rendon. She had never run there since they redid the arena. She had a pretty good youth run. She won 3rd in the 3D...$17...that was only 2.5 seconds off. She didn't win any money in the open...again she was 2.8 seconds off in that one. Not too bad for second time since her jaw breaking accident. She's never been that close to the winning time...yea! Now if she would quite being so timid going to the first. She is getting off her butt to ride...she forgets when she's in the middle of a run. Now if I can get her to get off her butt after she's left the barrel...she could pick up that 2 seconds...wishful thinking on my part. A person can always wish.
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Jennifer here's her run at Rendon. I don't know how to put that little box since I'm coping from a my space site. The my space page is the karate academy she goes to. What do you think? She's still pretty timid. Copper looks like he wants to try for her. You'd have been very proud of her the other day. She went and saddled him, and went to the pasture to ride. I looked out and saw her practicing...we don't have barrels so she was using the poles. I went out there to see what was going on and how he was working for her, and she told me that she has to keep his nose tipped to the inside and his body rounded...use her inside leg to push him off the barrel...OMG!!! I think she's finally figured out how his body is supposed to be positioned...Jill would be so proud of her also since Dara was having a hard time doing this when we had the money to go to her.