BunnyDog
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(Full disclosure this was my FB post tonight. I am more than a bit exhausted. )
This was SUCH a fun fun day. And there is a little bit of humor in how things unfolded.
So I don't know him well enough to exactly know what will set him off and what won't. What I know now though is that he IS an eventer. He relaxes working in fields and I promise I have had a long enough eventing career to know what sitting on a natural feels like and he's IT!!
He was so great in the dressage warm up and ring. The only true mistake was mine. I said "Good boy" aloud after a transition in front of the judge. I could then hear her say "Don't talk to your horse!!!" I thought "whoops!" and shut my mouth.
So he was great. Went and rested and spent some time with my Dad, John and Jeanne. Then it was time to jump. I got ready and took him to the warm up. For this event we jumped stadium on grass as well as XC. Chad was barefoot so we just went with it! LOL Our first warm up fence, over a small X caused a few gasps as Chad cleared the standards. Ha ha ha. From there no one was near me when I jumped. We had a great round that was more fluid than the rounds we had at the jumper show. He never slipped or was out of balance from the footing in the stadium area.
After that we headed up to do our XC. I had a nice moment thinking about all the horses whose backs I have sat on through the years on XC. This was my 10th (or so) horse whose first xc round was with me on their back. It's an honor that I really do enjoy. But I promise.... he blew me away. SO cadenced, balanced and game. Careful but not overjumping and looking for fences after the second fence. I finished with the BIGGEST smile on my face and it'll be there for a while.
So here's the humor in the day....In our 9 horse division Chad was the only horse to have finished on his dressage score. So we moved up. A lot. We had finished 2nd. By 0.20 points behind my friend Monica Fiss. However, when I got my dressage test back I saw it. I was given a 2 point error of course for saying "Good boy" in dressage. So had I kept my mouth shut.....I would have won. LOL. Oh well!!!
Video links: (This is Chad's playlist. His 3 Plantation videos are at the end)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKBarO_NR9rgV7O9ohZC0ZcwHPwGYqNSG&fbclid=IwAR3FQKAPLVpwAR0ZFYtfpu1Y-aA1LbX8dqARhM12BBMykxWe9x-2yDVLub4
Thanks to Dad for coming, to Jeanne for being such a huge help to me and Chad and for videoing and to John for taking these awesome pics. Love you ALL so very much!!!
Facebook link to John's still pics: https://www.facebook.com/media/set?vanity=Xctrygirl&set=a.10157833751282759
Emily
PS: In the USA Red is second place... but as an English horse export, Chad is still pretty sure that he won!!!
This was SUCH a fun fun day. And there is a little bit of humor in how things unfolded.
So I don't know him well enough to exactly know what will set him off and what won't. What I know now though is that he IS an eventer. He relaxes working in fields and I promise I have had a long enough eventing career to know what sitting on a natural feels like and he's IT!!
He was so great in the dressage warm up and ring. The only true mistake was mine. I said "Good boy" aloud after a transition in front of the judge. I could then hear her say "Don't talk to your horse!!!" I thought "whoops!" and shut my mouth.
So he was great. Went and rested and spent some time with my Dad, John and Jeanne. Then it was time to jump. I got ready and took him to the warm up. For this event we jumped stadium on grass as well as XC. Chad was barefoot so we just went with it! LOL Our first warm up fence, over a small X caused a few gasps as Chad cleared the standards. Ha ha ha. From there no one was near me when I jumped. We had a great round that was more fluid than the rounds we had at the jumper show. He never slipped or was out of balance from the footing in the stadium area.
After that we headed up to do our XC. I had a nice moment thinking about all the horses whose backs I have sat on through the years on XC. This was my 10th (or so) horse whose first xc round was with me on their back. It's an honor that I really do enjoy. But I promise.... he blew me away. SO cadenced, balanced and game. Careful but not overjumping and looking for fences after the second fence. I finished with the BIGGEST smile on my face and it'll be there for a while.
So here's the humor in the day....In our 9 horse division Chad was the only horse to have finished on his dressage score. So we moved up. A lot. We had finished 2nd. By 0.20 points behind my friend Monica Fiss. However, when I got my dressage test back I saw it. I was given a 2 point error of course for saying "Good boy" in dressage. So had I kept my mouth shut.....I would have won. LOL. Oh well!!!
Video links: (This is Chad's playlist. His 3 Plantation videos are at the end)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKBarO_NR9rgV7O9ohZC0ZcwHPwGYqNSG&fbclid=IwAR3FQKAPLVpwAR0ZFYtfpu1Y-aA1LbX8dqARhM12BBMykxWe9x-2yDVLub4
Thanks to Dad for coming, to Jeanne for being such a huge help to me and Chad and for videoing and to John for taking these awesome pics. Love you ALL so very much!!!
Facebook link to John's still pics: https://www.facebook.com/media/set?vanity=Xctrygirl&set=a.10157833751282759
Emily
PS: In the USA Red is second place... but as an English horse export, Chad is still pretty sure that he won!!!
