Sorry this could be long.
Got up at 4.30 to make his lordship look his best. Arrived at Oldencraig and Chelle tidied some more while I got ready. Warmed up nicely and wandered off to our arena to ride prelim 17.
Well the look of horror that came over me. I know they call it the lake arena but the lakes were in it! Git hates puddles either hops round them or jumps them. Entered the arena to find that not only was there a lake at S the whole end at A was very wet and deep. Tried to get him through the puddle before the bell went. . I was not impressed at £22 a class at the south east premier centre this was not on. Bless him, Git tried, he hated the ground, could not/would not really move forwards. Half way through the test having jumped the puddle again mumbled at Chelle "this is f**king ridiculous" I did not care if the judge at C heard me the test was ruined anyway. Then it got worse had to approach the "puddle" in canter, go right across it for a half 20m circle with trans to trot over the centre line. Well he FLEW cleared the whole thing I was somewhere near C and managed to recover some sort of trot. For that manoeuvre I scored a 4 from the judge at E with Huge jump over puddle and 5 from the judge at C with WELL SAT. Judge at C scored 59.16% and judge at E 57.5% gave me an average of 58.33 one of the lowest in that test. Judge at E commented sweet horse - shame about the puddle.
Deep breath, couple of fags and learn prelim 16 in 20 mins. 16 was in the international arena. It was still a little boggy but much better than the lake. Test went pretty well appart from one break in canter which I created as I again had to go through a puddle and if he lept that one he would he gone out the arena and down a ditch. I just checked a little too much. Judge at C scored us 64% and the judge at E scored us 68.5% with some lovely comments. That gave us an average of 66.25% and we come 5th out of 29.
The had a proper mounted presentation, I won a t-shirt, baseball cap and £35 voucher towards entries.
Never managed anything like that before and it was lovely cantering the lap of honour to Rocky
I am so proud of my little stressage pone
Warm up
The LAKE arena
International arena
Finished
Got up at 4.30 to make his lordship look his best. Arrived at Oldencraig and Chelle tidied some more while I got ready. Warmed up nicely and wandered off to our arena to ride prelim 17.
Well the look of horror that came over me. I know they call it the lake arena but the lakes were in it! Git hates puddles either hops round them or jumps them. Entered the arena to find that not only was there a lake at S the whole end at A was very wet and deep. Tried to get him through the puddle before the bell went. . I was not impressed at £22 a class at the south east premier centre this was not on. Bless him, Git tried, he hated the ground, could not/would not really move forwards. Half way through the test having jumped the puddle again mumbled at Chelle "this is f**king ridiculous" I did not care if the judge at C heard me the test was ruined anyway. Then it got worse had to approach the "puddle" in canter, go right across it for a half 20m circle with trans to trot over the centre line. Well he FLEW cleared the whole thing I was somewhere near C and managed to recover some sort of trot. For that manoeuvre I scored a 4 from the judge at E with Huge jump over puddle and 5 from the judge at C with WELL SAT. Judge at C scored 59.16% and judge at E 57.5% gave me an average of 58.33 one of the lowest in that test. Judge at E commented sweet horse - shame about the puddle.
Deep breath, couple of fags and learn prelim 16 in 20 mins. 16 was in the international arena. It was still a little boggy but much better than the lake. Test went pretty well appart from one break in canter which I created as I again had to go through a puddle and if he lept that one he would he gone out the arena and down a ditch. I just checked a little too much. Judge at C scored us 64% and the judge at E scored us 68.5% with some lovely comments. That gave us an average of 66.25% and we come 5th out of 29.
The had a proper mounted presentation, I won a t-shirt, baseball cap and £35 voucher towards entries.
Never managed anything like that before and it was lovely cantering the lap of honour to Rocky
I am so proud of my little stressage pone
Warm up
The LAKE arena
International arena
Finished
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