Tempi
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The less said about Burrows Court the better i think!
Basically the warmup was overcrowded (there was 9 people in there when i first got in and its only 50 x 20) - Archie got really tense and stressed out as idiots kept cantering into us. Then one particular idiot (who kept crashing into me) cantered right at us and he freaked out, kicked the fence, the fence came away and got stuck inbetween his leg
He charged off round the arena, luckily the fence got untangled and i stopped him and got off to check his legs. He'd just skinned himself on his off hind but was sound as i trotted him up. it wasnt bleeding either which was lucky as it couldve been really nasty
Needless to say after that all the idiots stayed away from us and i managed to get him to relax and he warmed up really nicely. He did what i thought was a lovely test, however the judge obviously wasnt wearing her glasses as i got 60%
She said to me after id finished my test 'shame he was naughty' - he wasnt naughty in the test tho
I think she saw him in the warmup and decided that was that.....unfortunately i had her for my elementary aswell, so are mark was even worse, even tho he felt fab and looked really good on the video we took
Sunday morning came and Archie's leg was huge, trotted him up and he was sound, so cold hosed him and stuck him out in the field. By the time i caught him in he was still sound and it was all back to normal. Arrived at Lottie's at 2:30 and helped her sort the jumps out. She realy is lovely, and has a realy nice setup aswell. Shes really down to earth and obviuosly works really hard for what shes got even tho her mother probably has a far amount of money.
Warmed Archie up under saddle and he was great, not even stiff after the 2hrs in the lorry which was good! Then took his tack off - at this point he looked a little confused as to why id un-tacked him
Started off with a little cross pole (id already ridden him over some trotting poles) and he loved it. Put it up to a straight and he sailed over it (around 1m) Then put up a 1.10m oxer which he flew over!! Finished off by putting the jump down and adding some fillers which he had a little look at but was tired by this point so didnt make too much fuss!!
All in all had a fab time, Lottie loved Archie and said how careeful he was (he didnt touch a single pole). Taking him back again at the end of October
Heres a little vid, this is just the small upright, mum forgot to press 'record' for the bigger oxer
Archie Loose Jumping
Thank you to OrangeEmpire who put me in touch with Lottie (i hope your hangover wasnt as bad as Lottie's on sunday
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Basically the warmup was overcrowded (there was 9 people in there when i first got in and its only 50 x 20) - Archie got really tense and stressed out as idiots kept cantering into us. Then one particular idiot (who kept crashing into me) cantered right at us and he freaked out, kicked the fence, the fence came away and got stuck inbetween his leg
Needless to say after that all the idiots stayed away from us and i managed to get him to relax and he warmed up really nicely. He did what i thought was a lovely test, however the judge obviously wasnt wearing her glasses as i got 60%
Sunday morning came and Archie's leg was huge, trotted him up and he was sound, so cold hosed him and stuck him out in the field. By the time i caught him in he was still sound and it was all back to normal. Arrived at Lottie's at 2:30 and helped her sort the jumps out. She realy is lovely, and has a realy nice setup aswell. Shes really down to earth and obviuosly works really hard for what shes got even tho her mother probably has a far amount of money.
Warmed Archie up under saddle and he was great, not even stiff after the 2hrs in the lorry which was good! Then took his tack off - at this point he looked a little confused as to why id un-tacked him
All in all had a fab time, Lottie loved Archie and said how careeful he was (he didnt touch a single pole). Taking him back again at the end of October
Heres a little vid, this is just the small upright, mum forgot to press 'record' for the bigger oxer
Archie Loose Jumping
Thank you to OrangeEmpire who put me in touch with Lottie (i hope your hangover wasnt as bad as Lottie's on sunday
