Well Knaptoft on Friday and Saturday, and Intro on Rosie on Sunday. Busy times!!
Well, unlike at Knaptoft it was nice weather all day, sometimes cloudy, but no rain! Because it had been wet the show jumping was moved onto a tiny arena and so some fences were jumped multiple times in the round!!
Well the Dressage with Rosie is normally much less stressful than with Belvedere but I was slightly concerned as she hasn’t done much recently, and hasn’t had a lesson in a while. I was also riding her in Belvedere’s dressage saddle as mum says it looks an awful lot better. However I needn’t have worried, she warmed up really well and was her normal super little self in the test. She’s so easy to ride in comparison to Belvedere. In the end we got 34.5 which is okay, but for her I was a little dissapointed with as she normally gets low 30’s or high 20’s. However sometimes she does tend to get a bit over bent and we were penalised for this.
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Well, unlike at Knaptoft it was nice weather all day, sometimes cloudy, but no rain! Because it had been wet the show jumping was moved onto a tiny arena and so some fences were jumped multiple times in the round!!
Well the Dressage with Rosie is normally much less stressful than with Belvedere but I was slightly concerned as she hasn’t done much recently, and hasn’t had a lesson in a while. I was also riding her in Belvedere’s dressage saddle as mum says it looks an awful lot better. However I needn’t have worried, she warmed up really well and was her normal super little self in the test. She’s so easy to ride in comparison to Belvedere. In the end we got 34.5 which is okay, but for her I was a little dissapointed with as she normally gets low 30’s or high 20’s. However sometimes she does tend to get a bit over bent and we were penalised for this.
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Show jumping she is normally very careful, the only worry is whether she will stop or not. She doesn’t have all that much confidence with show jumps and although we used to compete bigger she can’t really go above this height anymore, we just take her to have a pootle about and have fun. However, no stops, super little clear over an incredibly long and fairly up-to-height course. (14 jumping efforts). Afterwards we bumped into Rosie (Thomas) again who we see competing regularly and seem to be following around at the moment. She said Rosie looked lovely!
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The cross country was very short course, 16 jumps and 5 of them were hedges!!!!! The hedges were all quite a reasonable height and this is the best part, she doesn’t like hedges. She won’t go anywhere near a hedge out hunting because she has had too many bad experiences falling in ditches behind hedges (she doesn’t have a big spread). However these all had rails in so I wasn’t too concerned, as when they have rails and flags she trusts them more!!
So popped the first and down to the first hedge, which she jumped HUGE, and didn’t touch a twig. lol. poked over three that was very spooky looking, nice over 4 and 5ab, galloped on, flew the hedge at 6, 7ab was a very spooky TINY log down a slope, up a slope and over a TINY skinny log. Poked through that, launched over the hedge at 8, okay through 9ab, nice over hedge at 10. Popped the tyres at 11 and small log at 12, flew hedge at 13. Popped over log before water at 14, trotted through the water at 15ab, and beautifully over the last PN ditch palisade at 16. And then cantered through the finish (for some reason I didn’t think they were timing it...)
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So popped the first and down to the first hedge, which she jumped HUGE, and didn’t touch a twig. lol. poked over three that was very spooky looking, nice over 4 and 5ab, galloped on, flew the hedge at 6, 7ab was a very spooky TINY log down a slope, up a slope and over a TINY skinny log. Poked through that, launched over the hedge at 8, okay through 9ab, nice over hedge at 10. Popped the tyres at 11 and small log at 12, flew hedge at 13. Popped over log before water at 14, trotted through the water at 15ab, and beautifully over the last PN ditch palisade at 16. And then cantered through the finish (for some reason I didn’t think they were timing it...)
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Turns out they were timing it and I picked up 0.8 time pens which really annoyed me as had I not been so dense I wouldn’t have got them. Turns out they didn’t matter and we came 3rd. Bless her!!
