AandK
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Morning all! After posting in 'Weekend Plans' for the first time in forever, I thought I'd post a report to share :smile3:
I'll give you a little bit of background to set the scene. I've owned Andy for 15yrs in Sept, he is now 20yrs old and is an Irish TB. We have evented to PN/BE100 level in the distant past, with some sucess but have battled against my lack of confidence in SJ and also his dislike of bright fillers! At the beginning of 2015 I suffered an all time low in SJ confidence, and was just getting it back when Andy went ever so slightly lame in the July. He had an injury to his sesamoidian ligament (near hind) and secondary to this his annular ligament was swollen. 11/08/15 he had an op to cut the AL and had PRP injected into the SL, he made a textbook recovery and was 100% sound by mid Dec of the same year. I planned to get on him in the Jan, but he had a few issues (mud fever, bruised foot) and then carried on with intermittant lameness in March last year, which was worrying. I pushed the vet to scan the affected leg (off fore) before we started x-raying and it turned out he had a minute bone chip in the outside branch of the suspensory ligament, likely to be caused by trauma. So he had a few months off to see if it would stabilise or reabsorb and he was decleared sound and ready for work at the beginning of Aug last year! I spent time bringing him back in to work and we did some dressage in Dec and early this year, and started jumoing again in April. Another bruised foot delayed us after that (TBs!) but he is back in full work now and feeling amazing, esp for his age.
That was a bit long, sorry! So on to Saturday, we went to Felbridge to try some combined training. We did the BE80 class, as had not done a competitive round of SJ for 2yrs (plus my nerves would not have coped with much more!). As I mentioned, he is feeling super at the moment, and in our flat lesson last weekend we were using lots of shoulder fore to help with transitions and straightness so as a result he pulled out a lovely test to score 29.75pens (70.25%) :cool3:
Next up was the bit I was looking forward to but dreading with equal measure, does he still want to do this, would he enjoy it? Well I needen't of worried as he had a great time and jumped as if he had not had a break. Not a single look at any of the fillers and forward to each fence! There were 12 in total, with 2 doubles, and coming up to fence 11 I suddenly realised we were still clear and doing so well... So of course I sat there like a muppet and fluffed the stride meaning he knocked it down, but managed to get through the double at 12 clear so we just added 4 to finish on 33.75. I didn't have to wait long as I was near the end of the class (approx 20 people in it) and we managed to come 3rd! :cool3: the pole cost us a win, but I am so chuffed with how amazing he felt throughout the whole thing, and so pleased he is still loving his jumping! Here are some pics, hoping they work! (jumping pic is low-res image bought for posting on social media)
I'll give you a little bit of background to set the scene. I've owned Andy for 15yrs in Sept, he is now 20yrs old and is an Irish TB. We have evented to PN/BE100 level in the distant past, with some sucess but have battled against my lack of confidence in SJ and also his dislike of bright fillers! At the beginning of 2015 I suffered an all time low in SJ confidence, and was just getting it back when Andy went ever so slightly lame in the July. He had an injury to his sesamoidian ligament (near hind) and secondary to this his annular ligament was swollen. 11/08/15 he had an op to cut the AL and had PRP injected into the SL, he made a textbook recovery and was 100% sound by mid Dec of the same year. I planned to get on him in the Jan, but he had a few issues (mud fever, bruised foot) and then carried on with intermittant lameness in March last year, which was worrying. I pushed the vet to scan the affected leg (off fore) before we started x-raying and it turned out he had a minute bone chip in the outside branch of the suspensory ligament, likely to be caused by trauma. So he had a few months off to see if it would stabilise or reabsorb and he was decleared sound and ready for work at the beginning of Aug last year! I spent time bringing him back in to work and we did some dressage in Dec and early this year, and started jumoing again in April. Another bruised foot delayed us after that (TBs!) but he is back in full work now and feeling amazing, esp for his age.
That was a bit long, sorry! So on to Saturday, we went to Felbridge to try some combined training. We did the BE80 class, as had not done a competitive round of SJ for 2yrs (plus my nerves would not have coped with much more!). As I mentioned, he is feeling super at the moment, and in our flat lesson last weekend we were using lots of shoulder fore to help with transitions and straightness so as a result he pulled out a lovely test to score 29.75pens (70.25%) :cool3:
Next up was the bit I was looking forward to but dreading with equal measure, does he still want to do this, would he enjoy it? Well I needen't of worried as he had a great time and jumped as if he had not had a break. Not a single look at any of the fillers and forward to each fence! There were 12 in total, with 2 doubles, and coming up to fence 11 I suddenly realised we were still clear and doing so well... So of course I sat there like a muppet and fluffed the stride meaning he knocked it down, but managed to get through the double at 12 clear so we just added 4 to finish on 33.75. I didn't have to wait long as I was near the end of the class (approx 20 people in it) and we managed to come 3rd! :cool3: the pole cost us a win, but I am so chuffed with how amazing he felt throughout the whole thing, and so pleased he is still loving his jumping! Here are some pics, hoping they work! (jumping pic is low-res image bought for posting on social media)
well done! sounds like he's ready to crack on again then...?
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