MissDeMeena
Well-Known Member
Well, i'm sorry to say that you just wern't trying hard enough with your vibes!!!
Poor Ernest.. He coped a little better in the dressage, in that he made some sort of effort with 99% of the movements, getting 5's and 6's (even getting one 7
) but yet again, we got two 0's for the walk, as yet again it just didn't happen.. Ok, 5's and 6's arn't great, but they would have added up to a qualifying mark, should we have got them all the way through, but jig-joging sideways doesn't seem to win points in dressage now a days
The rest.. I can't really express how awesome he is!! Apart from saying that he did a double clear! (clear with-in the time SJing, clear but rather slow XC).
We did however have one blip! Not at a fence tho, the XC started with 3 straight forward galloping fences in a straight line.. Followed by a turn (not too tight, but needed to be set-up for) into no. 4.. so i slightly touched the breaks, nothing happened, touched them a bit harder, still nothing, so did the "plant one hand on the neck, and haul with the other" thing.. only in doing that i felt something "go" in my thumb, at first i thought i'd dislocated it, although obviously not, as after jumping fence 4 and galloping down the hill to fence 5 i gave it a little wiggle, and it seemed to work (which it wouldn't have if it was dislocated).. Very quickly pain was replaced with adrenalin and we were on our way.. Taking the straight routes pretty much everywhere, but not going too quick, as i was worried about the slowing down bit with a dodgy thumb
Ernie truely is awesome, he made it feel so easy, which i know it wasn't!
So, onto poor Orla pony, who is as genuine as the day is long.. but really is happy at PN level, not at a Novice that shares most its fences with the 2*
She did her usual sweet, flowing, rhytmical test to score a 35, which was a tad unfair, on looking at some of the other marks.. but then she's not a flashy big moving horse, which i guess is what the judge liked.
The SJing.. She wasn't really that keen on the ground, which was rather hard, and un-treated, as they'd spent all their time on the XC and main arenas.
I feel she was trying to say at this point "look, i'm not an event horse, look at all the others, which are, and i look nothing like them"..
But we still had to try with the XC, where she really said once and for all, that she defo isn't an event horse, not at oversized Novice level anyway..
She says she'd be very happy (and consistently placed, more than likely) at PN level.. which is hopefully what we'll do!
Please don't call her a pot-hunter, as she has given it a good go at the level above, but says it's not for her
Am still on a high from today tho!!!
Poor Ernest.. He coped a little better in the dressage, in that he made some sort of effort with 99% of the movements, getting 5's and 6's (even getting one 7
The rest.. I can't really express how awesome he is!! Apart from saying that he did a double clear! (clear with-in the time SJing, clear but rather slow XC).
We did however have one blip! Not at a fence tho, the XC started with 3 straight forward galloping fences in a straight line.. Followed by a turn (not too tight, but needed to be set-up for) into no. 4.. so i slightly touched the breaks, nothing happened, touched them a bit harder, still nothing, so did the "plant one hand on the neck, and haul with the other" thing.. only in doing that i felt something "go" in my thumb, at first i thought i'd dislocated it, although obviously not, as after jumping fence 4 and galloping down the hill to fence 5 i gave it a little wiggle, and it seemed to work (which it wouldn't have if it was dislocated).. Very quickly pain was replaced with adrenalin and we were on our way.. Taking the straight routes pretty much everywhere, but not going too quick, as i was worried about the slowing down bit with a dodgy thumb
Ernie truely is awesome, he made it feel so easy, which i know it wasn't!
So, onto poor Orla pony, who is as genuine as the day is long.. but really is happy at PN level, not at a Novice that shares most its fences with the 2*
She did her usual sweet, flowing, rhytmical test to score a 35, which was a tad unfair, on looking at some of the other marks.. but then she's not a flashy big moving horse, which i guess is what the judge liked.
The SJing.. She wasn't really that keen on the ground, which was rather hard, and un-treated, as they'd spent all their time on the XC and main arenas.
I feel she was trying to say at this point "look, i'm not an event horse, look at all the others, which are, and i look nothing like them"..
But we still had to try with the XC, where she really said once and for all, that she defo isn't an event horse, not at oversized Novice level anyway..
She says she'd be very happy (and consistently placed, more than likely) at PN level.. which is hopefully what we'll do!
Please don't call her a pot-hunter, as she has given it a good go at the level above, but says it's not for her
Am still on a high from today tho!!!
