only_me
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start off in lorry this morning after a silly o'clock start, but lorry stops 100 yards down road, so quick unloading of the horses and back up to the yard and we load up again in the trailer.
running late as takes 1h30mins to get to, and leaving at 8am with me on at 9.40am and an hours xc to walk wasnt looking good!!
arrive anyway at tyrella, where it was gale force winds blowing on shore. fun.
walk the xc, which imo was quite a strong 3f3 which had a VERY skinny roll top on the side of the hill, 4 parallels and lots more skinnys, and a bounce fence.going was very slippy and wet, so i was a little nervous setting out due to the lack of stud holes in our shoes...
for those of you who do not know, tyrella has a MASSIVE hill in the middle of the very long course, so is quite tiring for horses!
the sj was interesting, as i hadnt a martingale (which i dont normally use anyways) and it was slippy with tight turns and it was right up to height. had a few jumps as didnt like jumping in the sleet, so went in and got a clear, which merlin was very good as i was a complete numpty imo
put him away for 40mins, and then got out and had to warm up in the hail, which wasnt very nice as it stung!! poor merlin had his head at a tilt because of the hail coming horizontal
but jumped the xc fence a few times and then started on the xc. merlin has only done a few start boxes before, but he was very good and didnt nap and went when i asked him! was amazing
he went off like a rocket and jumped the first 4 out of his stride and made it look easy
and then the skinny rolltop (whih i think we measured it about 3f!! across ) which he saw, but then he saw the flags and we were ok! jumped it nicely, and then jumped the next lot perfectly. nice big log up the hill and down it, and a funny cottage thing. he got tired just at the brush fence which was about the 2.5mile mark, but kept on going in his stride and jumped the bounce well (hes never done a fixed one before
) and straight into the water fence with no problem and then there was a cottage thing with a spooky pole on top, and the previous horse before us was having difficulties and got eliminated at it i think, so was trotting away, and i was slightly worried that he would try and follow! neednt have worried really, he saw the fence and jumped it! then was an incredibly narrow table, which a lot of perople ran out at, going by the track marks
merlin and i took it at a slight angle, he never worried about it and he never felt like he was going to run out! mummy very pleased
and the last fence was a simple log brush thingy which he popped as if it wasnt there
so have no idea if i was placed or not, as left early for once! tried to go in sea, but the gale wind made it a little dificult as merlin kept trying to jump the waves, so we left just in case we got kicked by the other horses that we were with
will try and get photos later as they are not on the website yet. very pleased and cant wait till next sat when out season starts!
sorry for self indulgent post
running late as takes 1h30mins to get to, and leaving at 8am with me on at 9.40am and an hours xc to walk wasnt looking good!!
arrive anyway at tyrella, where it was gale force winds blowing on shore. fun.
walk the xc, which imo was quite a strong 3f3 which had a VERY skinny roll top on the side of the hill, 4 parallels and lots more skinnys, and a bounce fence.going was very slippy and wet, so i was a little nervous setting out due to the lack of stud holes in our shoes...
for those of you who do not know, tyrella has a MASSIVE hill in the middle of the very long course, so is quite tiring for horses!
the sj was interesting, as i hadnt a martingale (which i dont normally use anyways) and it was slippy with tight turns and it was right up to height. had a few jumps as didnt like jumping in the sleet, so went in and got a clear, which merlin was very good as i was a complete numpty imo
put him away for 40mins, and then got out and had to warm up in the hail, which wasnt very nice as it stung!! poor merlin had his head at a tilt because of the hail coming horizontal
he went off like a rocket and jumped the first 4 out of his stride and made it look easy
merlin and i took it at a slight angle, he never worried about it and he never felt like he was going to run out! mummy very pleased
so have no idea if i was placed or not, as left early for once! tried to go in sea, but the gale wind made it a little dificult as merlin kept trying to jump the waves, so we left just in case we got kicked by the other horses that we were with
will try and get photos later as they are not on the website yet. very pleased and cant wait till next sat when out season starts!
sorry for self indulgent post
