madhector
Well-Known Member
Well today was Chunky's turn, after a very early start we arrived in plenty of time for a nice productive warm up. He felt really good by the time we went in and was looking forward to a really fun test! Chunky however had other ideas and pretended he was the green baby and went in and spooked at everything! Had just about enough time to get him happy with the judges and flowers but the bell rang as he freaked out about the door...
We managed a very conservative test with the odd spook and quite alot of tanking, nothing like he could do and came out a bit dissapointed but mostly laughing as we had been so worried about Fitz spooking, it was funny that it ended up being Chunks who was harder to ride!
Got round with just one real error where he refused to trot passed the door, and not much expression as was busy containing him!
Ended on 62.07% which is an improvement on last years 61, and quite funny as we had joked about him always getting 61% at the regionals and any improvement on that was acceptable!
However it was a very low scoring class so ended up 7th! So he got to do a prize giving after all
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152526897230251
No more mediums for him, he needs something to get his teeth into I think, so will keep training and plan to get him out at psg next year (changes nearly there, and he is finding everything else great fun!)
So over all a good regionals for us, very proud of Fitz getting placed in the Novice open, and you have to laugh at Chunks....
Thanks for reading
We managed a very conservative test with the odd spook and quite alot of tanking, nothing like he could do and came out a bit dissapointed but mostly laughing as we had been so worried about Fitz spooking, it was funny that it ended up being Chunks who was harder to ride!
Got round with just one real error where he refused to trot passed the door, and not much expression as was busy containing him!
Ended on 62.07% which is an improvement on last years 61, and quite funny as we had joked about him always getting 61% at the regionals and any improvement on that was acceptable!
However it was a very low scoring class so ended up 7th! So he got to do a prize giving after all
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10152526897230251
No more mediums for him, he needs something to get his teeth into I think, so will keep training and plan to get him out at psg next year (changes nearly there, and he is finding everything else great fun!)
So over all a good regionals for us, very proud of Fitz getting placed in the Novice open, and you have to laugh at Chunks....
Thanks for reading