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… when you warm up properly for SJ and RIDE.

This round felt so easy! Absolutely delighted with him. Bar the one deep fence It felt pretty flawless. Thank you all for your advice HHOers.

We finished joint second but dropped to 3rd as our XC was faster and not as close to the optimum. So that’s 3 top 5 finishes out of the last 4 runs. Offchurch bury ground was superb- one of my favourite events.

What a generous, super little horse he is. A break from eventing now, hopefully find a discovery to go jump and perhaps Aston BE100 mid August…



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Well you know what they say - proper preparation prevents poor performance! ? Improving your SJ warm up has obviously paid dividends and he isn’t trying to take charge during the round because he knew you were on it. Clever pony.
 
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Thank you!!

just dithering as to whether to enter Crown farm/Ascott under Wychwood unaff (preferred venue for both sj and xc!) for mid august or Aston (will likely have great ground regardless of weather).

Or enter both and see what the weather does, may be balloted out of Aston anyway. That will be our one and only chance I think to do a 100 as I’d like to take him to the Frickley AFC the weekend after and then I’m in theory out of time before I need the season to end!
 
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Crown farm is also one of my favourite venues but I’ve got there a few times to find the ground is very very hard.

Aston would usually be my fail safe for ground but I was incredibly disappointed with them for an ua event earlier this year where there was no evidence that anything had been done at all for their ground and it was solid. Possibly for an affiliated they will do the ground.

I reckon Aston would probably still be the safer choice but if you can afford to enter both then you’re probably doubling your chance. Are they the same weekend? Can you go to one, find the ground is no good, and still be able to compete in the other?
 
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Squeak said:
Crown farm is also one of my favourite venues but I’ve got there a few times to find the ground is very very hard.

Aston would usually be my fail safe for ground but I was incredibly disappointed with them for an ua event earlier this year where there was no evidence that anything had been done at all for their ground and it was solid. Possibly for an affiliated they will do the ground.

I reckon Aston would probably still be the safer choice but if you can afford to enter both then you’re probably doubling your chance. Are they the same weekend? Can you go to one, find the ground is no good, and still be able to compete in the other?
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Yes same weekend. Aston on the sat and crown farm the Sunday but not sure I’d traipse him anywhere on day 2 again especially with a trek north the following week for an AFC.

I’ve always been really impressed with Aston even mid summer where the ground has been irrigated. Crown farm I found can be very hard SJ but usually great grass coverage and good ground XC, but I’ve never bothered to go mid summer as I tend to only pick Aston or the old turf parkland type events.

I think I’ll enter both and take my chances!
 
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