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I decided to take her ginger highness to Patchetts today to jump in the Am classes as am under trainer and mum orders to get back out jumping a height and not keep piddling about at the intro shows or doing HT.

But I like piddling about!

Unfortunately, my mum decided to brew a stinker of a cold last night so I had to head out on my own this morning. Its not that we are a well oiled, highly synchronised team or anything- I mean she cant work a camera and I try to avoid letting her touch a warm up jump- but shes my mum and she buys me tea and gives me thumbs up when I dont fall off.

Sooooo, team ginge heads off around the M25 on our adventure, get there without incident (The last time I headed off on my own the wheel on my trailer fell off) and got parked up by the best parking guy ever, so I was actually in a space and had room to leave, shocking isnt it;)

I entered and walked the course and as it was our 1st time back indoors this year everything seemed close but until fence 12 nothing was meaty or daunting, the last part of the JO circled around the entrance to the warm up but didnt think much of it.

and OMG. I adore Patchetts. But on todays events I dont EVER want to go there again. 25 in the warm up, despite repeated attempts to get all except the next 10 to jump out, people happy hacking in pairs on the track, a mass crowd at the entrance waiting to jump - the last time I checked BS was not a team jumping exercise, so why are there 7 people all 'ready' to jump. Also, I dont know if this is a SE phenomenon, but the herds of Arabic owners were out in numbers! Note I use Arabic as a descriptive term, not a racial slur in the slightest but they are large in number, slow moving and take up a lot of space..quite often the wrong space like just where you want horses to be! Oh and the usual eventers on the wrong rein :p vile mothers and the usual "did you brush your hair this week" rapunzelites who give BS a baad name.

Of course, her highness is fit as a newt and the lack of space and pressure from other horses added to my own horrid insecurities about being on my own meant our warm up was shite, we even crashed through an oxer and we never do things like that. She kept spooking at someone in a flapping Point 2 jacket, I dont understand as she had no BP on? Surely she would just get uber whiplash if she fell off??!!

Aaaaanyway, headed in, deep breaths, prayers to my god and off we went and holy cow the horse had springs, I swear I was licking the rafters all the way around. Clear so into the JO course and no shenanigans, just power jumping until we slightly missed the penultimate fence so skirted it and popped over on our re take, no biggie, then came up to the last oxer which had a hanging filler headed away from the warm up chute and pony just said 'cant!' , again, no biggie but the bell rings for elimination and the judge commentates "What a shame! but elimination" so at least we had a fan! I raised my hand to signal that I had heard and came around for one last shot at the oxer only to see the next MUPPET of a rider standing in front of my jump. Cue a XC bellow from me of "LAST FENCE PUHLEASE!!!":rolleyes::mad: and of course, my pony says sorry but no again.
Felt all sorts of fail. Calmly trotted out the ring, gathered our collective brains and popped the oxer in the warm up, rode over the M1 bridge and had a big bottom lip wobble until we felt composed enough to head back, finish up and head home.

Moral of the story is, dont forget your mum.
 
What a shame about the jump off, but well done on your clear anyway! And I must add that I loved reading your report - very entertaining!
 
Unlucky with the last fence but well done on the rest of the round and v funny comments about the other riders in the warm up!

I love outdooes at Patchetts but not such a fan of indoor. The cafe is nice though. ;)
 
Love your report

We get "Arabic" groups in Gloucestershire too - they often accumulate around the jump in the warm up and then proceed to wander out whether or not there is a horse coming to the jump. The only good thing is ours are usually chaperoned by a trainer and if they do something stupid like that they get a torrent of abuse that sounds vaguely familiar in any language!! :D

Also if warm ups are busy I often wus out of attempting the practise oxer, as that's one jump I don't want to screw up right before going in. Plus its always the oxer that some idiot tends to ride in front of when you are trying to jump. :eek:

Still chin up, doesn't sound like a bad day if you were in the jump off and was just a simple miss causing your problems!
Did you go out just for one class?
 
your report is one of the funniest i have read in a long time :D:D
this is the very reason why i HATE HATE HATE show jumping- its the collectng rings :eek: (although my trainer- who is very much sjer rather than eventer) tells me off if i only warm up on one rein- she says if there is no sign i must go both ways :eek:
 
Sounds like a nightmare in the warm up - I hate those. Never been there, but there's some awfully small warm ups near me - I don't like them at all. Plus my mum is terrible i the warm up, always on the verge of being run over :rolleyes:
 
Loved your report, very entertaining. I was nearly mown down at Sparsholt today by someone jumping the oxer practice fence the wrong way & smashing it to bits. Well done, bad luck about the last fence. My coach tells me in the warm up to keep my head up & keep cantering, its a bit scary as Fleur is only 14.2 & we do seniors, so every other beast in there is huge!
 
well done for holding it together :)

parents with pointy elbows and shouty voices are a neccesary accesory for BS warm ups aren they!my dad used to be fab at setting teh fence *just* as i was comming round the corner, thus ensuring me a free run to it with no muppets cutting in.
 
Ah unlucky but least she was jumping well, and wasn't her fault really! I didn't end up going anywhere! In future give me a bell! will come and support pingy pony :)
 
Brilliant Report.

Chin up, she was jumping fab untill the end so try and focus on the good bits.

Know what you mean re: your mum. My mum is an essential when I go to shows, only she knows to walk my horse around while I get dressed so he's not too hot when I get on. She knows where and when I like my number down (4th or 5th to go) and she always has change for a bacon sarnie. I'm being brave though like you and doing my first BS without her at the end of the month as she's on holiday.

Don't be too down though, you did really really well especially considering you were a bit nervous and on your own :)
 
Well done Lucemoose sounds like the ginger girly jumped super. Excellent report and doing it on your own is a nightmare! I only ever venture out with an entourage of at least 3 helpers!! They are pretty tough ones who do a mean line in getting chasing me out of the lorry!
 
Oh thank you all, theres only so much buck up kiddo-ing i can say to myself before I stop listening to myself!
was thinking of doing the 1m too but finishing the last jump on a slight sour note and then just not having the balls to put it mildly to get back in there to enter the next class. She is very much like a pony version of the girl with a curl in the middle of her forehead, when we are good we are very very good and when we are bad no comment!:D

Im glad it was funny to read, I think our next outing we can be wimps and start with a small open or a CR to get into it, oh and bring a mum- Stencilface I had some hideous creature shout at my mum at Royal Leisure and I think the worry over keeping the mum safe outweighs any jumping worries..

Ps It was a matchy matchy day today. Bonus points:):):):p
 
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Well done Lucemoose sounds like the ginger girly jumped super. Excellent report and doing it on your own is a nightmare! I only ever venture out with an entourage of at least 3 helpers!! They are pretty tough ones who do a mean line in getting chasing me out of the lorry!
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I have the summerhouse dates printed out if you get threatened with BS I shall be there too, buy you a cup of tea and sneak onto your lorry to see Z....;)
 
Oh! how cool, you should have shouted/mumbled at me or something :D I went back to see how the classes were going and the latter half of the 90cm was much quieter. Urk, i hope I didnt shamefully embarrass myself :(

How did you get on?
 
Well done Lucemoose! Sounds like it was out of your comfort zone all round, so you did good! Need photo's soon please! Love your ginger mare! :D I hate warm ups! Luckily have trained L that an oxer as a first warm up fence is NOT unusual and should be expected in the absence of a cross pole putter upper!! :p
 
I love patchetts... But hate the warm up!!
But the cafe does make up for it I think!
Loved the report, shame about the mess up at very end but still good up to that point!
 
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