chestnut cob
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After my recent posts dithering about going, yesterday I did my second team chase at the Atherstone, having done the Warks two weeks before.
It is most definitely the best fun you can have on horseback, or at least it's the best fun I've had on horseback! I thought I'd enjoyed eventing all season but the buzz from TC has beaten it by a mile - I still haven't come back down! Have never done it before and neither has horse. First time we were asked to be lead horse as the others had green horses/ were nervous, and yesterday I asked to be lead as horse was happy in that position. I can't describe how much fun I had! The Warks was a great course- lots of big hedges, bigger than I expected but so inviting and rode well. I didn't think the Atherstone was a nice course at all. Quite twisty, didn't flow well, lots of tight turns, ditches, big drops. Needn't have worried, horse flew around and bar being a bit sticky at a hedge with an open ditch in front towards the end (just had a look at the last second but went when I said go), loved every second.
Now my horse thinks he's the cleverest thing ever. He is usually pretty well mannered to ride and is always good in XC warm up. Yesterday however, I asked for canter, he took off bucking and bronking (he has never bucked in the 2.5 years I've owned him LOL!), then spent the remainder of the time squeaking and squealing. I decided to take him TC to give him a little reward after working hard all year for me, and he's definitely loved it. Just hoping I can now manage to get out once more before I lose my towing car (new job, different company car) and he goes on his hols for a couple of months.
It is most definitely the best fun you can have on horseback, or at least it's the best fun I've had on horseback! I thought I'd enjoyed eventing all season but the buzz from TC has beaten it by a mile - I still haven't come back down! Have never done it before and neither has horse. First time we were asked to be lead horse as the others had green horses/ were nervous, and yesterday I asked to be lead as horse was happy in that position. I can't describe how much fun I had! The Warks was a great course- lots of big hedges, bigger than I expected but so inviting and rode well. I didn't think the Atherstone was a nice course at all. Quite twisty, didn't flow well, lots of tight turns, ditches, big drops. Needn't have worried, horse flew around and bar being a bit sticky at a hedge with an open ditch in front towards the end (just had a look at the last second but went when I said go), loved every second.
Now my horse thinks he's the cleverest thing ever. He is usually pretty well mannered to ride and is always good in XC warm up. Yesterday however, I asked for canter, he took off bucking and bronking (he has never bucked in the 2.5 years I've owned him LOL!), then spent the remainder of the time squeaking and squealing. I decided to take him TC to give him a little reward after working hard all year for me, and he's definitely loved it. Just hoping I can now manage to get out once more before I lose my towing car (new job, different company car) and he goes on his hols for a couple of months.
