Thistle
Well-Known Member
What can I say but dopey.
She was baby sitting on Fri night and people were nearly 2 hours late home so Bee didn't get to bed until gone 1. This is one child who needs her sleep!
Dressage warm up was hard and uneven, did an OK test for her to score 41.something. (We celebrate if it's under 40!)
SJ, warm up on a deep surface then in to jump in a very hard ring.
Willough focused on a very shiny burger van just behind the first fence, Bee didn't feel the slight backing off and stopped!, Good start - not! Went on to jump a lovely round, perfect down the lines that caused all the trouble, just rolled a pole over the gate.
XC, when we walked the course we felt it was quite technical but not overly large for a novice.
Bee was held on the start whist a loose horse was caught then rode at the first fence as if being chased by demons, was not going to repeat the mistake!
Got into her stride, got all the direct routes but had a silly stop at the coffin. Up hill approach to a hanging log on the lip of the dell, light to dark, went a bit fast chasing the time as Willough is a 14.2 native. Didn't see the jump in time an willough tripped and landed with her nose on the jump, turned round and flew, over the log, down steep hill over ditch and out over skinny. Up near vertical slope and on to huge step up and a stride to a pallisade, bit inelagant scramble but clear.
Flew home to finish in 26th place.
The good thing was only 11.2 time pens even with the stop so the time is more acheivable now, bad is rider must be awake enough to know when to check!
Amazingly the journey home was OK, I was expecting heavy traffic coming back from the coast after such a sunny day.
Got home at 9.15 pm.
She was baby sitting on Fri night and people were nearly 2 hours late home so Bee didn't get to bed until gone 1. This is one child who needs her sleep!
Dressage warm up was hard and uneven, did an OK test for her to score 41.something. (We celebrate if it's under 40!)
SJ, warm up on a deep surface then in to jump in a very hard ring.
Willough focused on a very shiny burger van just behind the first fence, Bee didn't feel the slight backing off and stopped!, Good start - not! Went on to jump a lovely round, perfect down the lines that caused all the trouble, just rolled a pole over the gate.
XC, when we walked the course we felt it was quite technical but not overly large for a novice.
Bee was held on the start whist a loose horse was caught then rode at the first fence as if being chased by demons, was not going to repeat the mistake!
Got into her stride, got all the direct routes but had a silly stop at the coffin. Up hill approach to a hanging log on the lip of the dell, light to dark, went a bit fast chasing the time as Willough is a 14.2 native. Didn't see the jump in time an willough tripped and landed with her nose on the jump, turned round and flew, over the log, down steep hill over ditch and out over skinny. Up near vertical slope and on to huge step up and a stride to a pallisade, bit inelagant scramble but clear.
Flew home to finish in 26th place.
The good thing was only 11.2 time pens even with the stop so the time is more acheivable now, bad is rider must be awake enough to know when to check!
Amazingly the journey home was OK, I was expecting heavy traffic coming back from the coast after such a sunny day.
Got home at 9.15 pm.
