BroadfordQueen
Well-Known Member
Well as you can proberbly tell by the early post, we didnt qualify for the grand prix day tomorrow
Very dissapointed.
Arrived yesterday morning at 7:30am, found her stable and in she went (with a bit of coaxing- she didnt like the look of the scary portable stables!). Got All the stable stuff out of the trailer and bought some shavings etc etc. went and walked the course- seemed nice, good size, lovely arena, nothing too spooky. Found the running order- 77th to go out of about 110 starters- although i think about 5 or 6 didnt declare.
So watched the first 30 odd go- only about 5 or 6 double clears which really suprised us! lots of horses spooking at a scary double, and just alot of 4-faulters.
Got on and took her to walk/trot/canter in the outside school- which is MASSIVE! and she was totally barmy, what with the wind and all the things going on! Went in the indoor warm up which was abit mad... but she warmed up nicely (now developed a fear of horses cantering on the opposite rein to us- she just freezes and starts running backwards
).
Went in the ring and she felt really nice and relaxed. Into the first fence- took a flyer! Round the corner to the second- found myself on the wrong leg but couldn't change in time so she was unbalanced and had it down- gutted. Flew the rest clear, jumped brilliantly and didnt even think about spooking at anything.
So abit gutted- found out there where 23 odd double clears (out of over 100!) so gutted as she SO easily could have qualified.
Anyway today was a speed class, and my final chance of qualification. Was 24th to jump today which was much better. Decided to go for it- all or nothing
So we really went for it- jumped 1, galloped upto fence 2, super tight turn into 3, gallop onto fence 4 (a double)...got abit flat over 1st part and therefore had second part down. Sh!t. Go faster in hope of getting through with fastest 4 faults. Few more tight turns and then has number 7 down too- going too fast. Bugger. So we came home.
Would of almost deffinately won it had i gone clear- came away with second fastest time and i would of gone faster into the last few but i decided there was no point. Really, REALLY gutted.
She was a star though. Just decided not to pick her feet up. Typical, hasnt had a pole for ages. Having a rest from showjumping for a few weeks now and do some hunting (
) and then do some bigger classes, eg. 1.10m/newcomers. Im not trying to make an excuse, but to be honest it was too small for her and she wasn't even putting any effort into it- we hired a show centre out on wednesday night and bung them up to 1.10m ish and she didnt touch a single pole.
thanks for reading
Arrived yesterday morning at 7:30am, found her stable and in she went (with a bit of coaxing- she didnt like the look of the scary portable stables!). Got All the stable stuff out of the trailer and bought some shavings etc etc. went and walked the course- seemed nice, good size, lovely arena, nothing too spooky. Found the running order- 77th to go out of about 110 starters- although i think about 5 or 6 didnt declare.
So watched the first 30 odd go- only about 5 or 6 double clears which really suprised us! lots of horses spooking at a scary double, and just alot of 4-faulters.
Got on and took her to walk/trot/canter in the outside school- which is MASSIVE! and she was totally barmy, what with the wind and all the things going on! Went in the indoor warm up which was abit mad... but she warmed up nicely (now developed a fear of horses cantering on the opposite rein to us- she just freezes and starts running backwards
Went in the ring and she felt really nice and relaxed. Into the first fence- took a flyer! Round the corner to the second- found myself on the wrong leg but couldn't change in time so she was unbalanced and had it down- gutted. Flew the rest clear, jumped brilliantly and didnt even think about spooking at anything.
So abit gutted- found out there where 23 odd double clears (out of over 100!) so gutted as she SO easily could have qualified.
Anyway today was a speed class, and my final chance of qualification. Was 24th to jump today which was much better. Decided to go for it- all or nothing
Would of almost deffinately won it had i gone clear- came away with second fastest time and i would of gone faster into the last few but i decided there was no point. Really, REALLY gutted.
She was a star though. Just decided not to pick her feet up. Typical, hasnt had a pole for ages. Having a rest from showjumping for a few weeks now and do some hunting (
thanks for reading
