suegreenaway
Well-Known Member
Well thankyou to everyone who replied to my frantic pleas of help last week but we did it, had an absolute blast and our team came 5th out of 40 plus teams!! Unfortunately I do not have any pictures but I suspect deefa will give a much more detailed exciting report! What a pleasure it was to meet you and Goli.
I was ready to give up and go home before I'd even got there, having turned out the others at 6am in a new field which seemed a lot darker than their old field I walked into the fence twice and tripped over a
mound, I then thought I was leaving the yard at a reasonable time of 7.30 thinking "oh yea I'll be there easily by 9.30 ...." by 9.45 I was sat in a layby having a mental breakdown with the rain beating down, I was totally lost, thinking what on earth was I doing spending my day doing this and just wanted to go home!
Ok so I realised I wasn't driving all that way to turn round and go home so pulled myself together and found the place just in time for a coursewalk with some other team members. At this point I was really thinking omg these hedges are huge and I'll never get round! It didn't get better in the warm up as Hope thought it was too much to cope with so danced sideways and did the occasional plant. So to the off, it could go one of two ways, either we'd go with them or we'd just plant, luckily it was the first! Started at the back and it all happened so quickly, she was just taking it all on, we landed after 1 hedge with no reins to a sharp right hand turn to a timber fence but luckily she responded to my pleas of "please follow that one in front" then later on when 2 had a small blip at a fence my super pony said well im going, stormed up the final hill in 2nd place, and I swear the both of us were grinning from ear to ear!
We are most definitely hooked and will be doing it again, lets just hope it helps us at our last event next week at Broadway! Sorry for this getting a bit long and for the lack of pictures! What a super day, even the rain didn't ruin it!!
I was ready to give up and go home before I'd even got there, having turned out the others at 6am in a new field which seemed a lot darker than their old field I walked into the fence twice and tripped over a
mound, I then thought I was leaving the yard at a reasonable time of 7.30 thinking "oh yea I'll be there easily by 9.30 ...." by 9.45 I was sat in a layby having a mental breakdown with the rain beating down, I was totally lost, thinking what on earth was I doing spending my day doing this and just wanted to go home!
Ok so I realised I wasn't driving all that way to turn round and go home so pulled myself together and found the place just in time for a coursewalk with some other team members. At this point I was really thinking omg these hedges are huge and I'll never get round! It didn't get better in the warm up as Hope thought it was too much to cope with so danced sideways and did the occasional plant. So to the off, it could go one of two ways, either we'd go with them or we'd just plant, luckily it was the first! Started at the back and it all happened so quickly, she was just taking it all on, we landed after 1 hedge with no reins to a sharp right hand turn to a timber fence but luckily she responded to my pleas of "please follow that one in front" then later on when 2 had a small blip at a fence my super pony said well im going, stormed up the final hill in 2nd place, and I swear the both of us were grinning from ear to ear!
We are most definitely hooked and will be doing it again, lets just hope it helps us at our last event next week at Broadway! Sorry for this getting a bit long and for the lack of pictures! What a super day, even the rain didn't ruin it!!
