Lyle
Well-Known Member
Feeling pretty chuffed with my spunky grey boy, he just keeps exceeding my expectations! 
It's been bucketing so much this winter, it basically hasn't let up for 3 or 4 months and it's getting a little frustrating, bring back the drought I say! It's getting difficult to school XC any where, as all the courses are closed It rained and rained and rained all week, and I was pretty worried about getting the boy out to have his first look at XC before the show on sunday, where I was hoping to enter the Hunter Trials. Well, the rain let up and I managed to go for a XC hoon on Saturday. Cruzy was an absolute star, and loved every minute of it!
There was quite a bit of this:
and 'cos I can
This was his first attempt at the water
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Very happyyyy
He was scrubbed and plaited and on Sunday I took him to the Oaklands hunt club hunter show, which had a massive array of classes, from qualified hunter plate, show hunter, hack classes, working hunter, showjumping, hunter trials and the PC showing ring.
Cruzy hasn't been out in public for 9 weeks, he's only been to lessons in a nice private environment and he was rather unhappy about the other horses charging about the warm-up. It took him a little while to settle but he came good and jumped a super round in the 90cm 2-phase
[youtube]EEaFZFVRJUA[/youtube]
I did the novice working hunter (which was 60cm) and Mr Cruze managed a place out of a big class, which was pretty cool.
Then to finish, we embarked on the challenge of the novice hunter trials, with fences a max of 75cm. In short, he was a legend! His first time on a real course with heaps of space, and he was lovely to ride, just felt a little astonished at times! Mum got the first few fences on video before she lost me and started to film the sky
[youtube]SDUuJX6fYog[/youtube]
Sorry for the long gushy post, I'm jsut very pleased that I will have something to event this season
It's been bucketing so much this winter, it basically hasn't let up for 3 or 4 months and it's getting a little frustrating, bring back the drought I say! It's getting difficult to school XC any where, as all the courses are closed
It rained and rained and rained all week, and I was pretty worried about getting the boy out to have his first look at XC before the show on sunday, where I was hoping to enter the Hunter Trials. Well, the rain let up and I managed to go for a XC hoon on Saturday. Cruzy was an absolute star, and loved every minute of it! There was quite a bit of this:
and 'cos I can
This was his first attempt at the water
[youtube]xkRm-bgNWeQ[/youtube]
Very happyyyy
He was scrubbed and plaited and on Sunday I took him to the Oaklands hunt club hunter show, which had a massive array of classes, from qualified hunter plate, show hunter, hack classes, working hunter, showjumping, hunter trials and the PC showing ring.
Cruzy hasn't been out in public for 9 weeks, he's only been to lessons in a nice private environment and he was rather unhappy about the other horses charging about the warm-up. It took him a little while to settle but he came good and jumped a super round in the 90cm 2-phase
[youtube]EEaFZFVRJUA[/youtube]
I did the novice working hunter (which was 60cm
) and Mr Cruze managed a place out of a big class, which was pretty cool.Then to finish, we embarked on the challenge of the novice hunter trials, with fences a max of 75cm. In short, he was a legend! His first time on a real course with heaps of space, and he was lovely to ride, just felt a little astonished at times! Mum got the first few fences on video before she lost me and started to film the sky
[youtube]SDUuJX6fYog[/youtube]
Sorry for the long gushy post, I'm jsut very pleased that I will have something to event this season
