Cudo's continuing adventures in America

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I think we're going to wait. More shows with bigger fences in the future.


He was great at the clinic with Joe Fargis this weekend. (1984 Olympic Gold Medalist, both individual and team show Jumping)

Long video here. You can start at minute 7 and then it's only 8 mins long.

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I have been woefully remiss in posting Cudo updates. Sorry!!!

Yesterday I took Cudo and Chad to another clinic at my friend's indoor. This time we were riding with Laura Chapot. I have ridden with her before and appreciate many of the things that she teaches about. (Always go forward. Push with your seat to show him the line, guide with your hand. NEVER pull back)

I rode Chad first in the 'medium' height group and he was quite good. Then I rode Cudo in the 'high' group. Cudo was feeling good and was definitely on his toes. He has had a relaxed couple of weeks while we have been dealing with copious amounts of rain and a bit of snow. We now have a show in our sights again on Dec 2nd at a slightly lower height (1.10) but it should be a good day as it's a lovely facility.

Here's a link to Cudo's video.
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I feel I should explain that not featured on this (because I don't have it recorded) we had a really bad stumble on landing from the blue oxer going towards the door of the indoor. I cannot understate this, he went down to almost his knees, my hat cut the bridge of my nose as we bobbled hard and I have a nicely swollen cheek below my eye where his crest and mane bashed into me as he was throwing his head back up to save himself. I hyper extended the back of my neck which hurt for a good 10 mins but was fine thereafter. As a result, I pretty much rode that fence like hell the whole rest of my ride. So all excuses aside, I should have not let it affect me, but it did.

Pics of both boys are shared on Cudo's Facebook page.

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So many fun adventures over the weekend and I just don't know where to begin.

Well, the beginning seems best....

On Saturday we took a private lesson with Irish Eventer Joseph Murphy. I had taken an earlier group lesson with Chad and so I had an idea of what I was in for. We did explain though that this would be a 'tune up' lesson as we had a jumper show the next day and as such needed to work on form and function and not 8 million jumps.

So we had a great time and really go through a couple issues and felt pretty good going into our show yesterday. So to explain this was a local schooling show series, end of year show. I had noticed when perusing the points online that somehow we were sitting 2nd in the rankings for one division, and somewhere in the top 5 in another division. As they were awarding double points for this show and since we hadn't done a show in over a month, I thought this would be a decent time to go play and see if we could improve our end of year standings. I really like the indoor ring that this show is held in and the people are truly lovely and kind.

Sooo off we went. I decided not to bring Chad as his 90 mins in the clinic was jam packed full of new experiences and as the guardian of my little furry wunderkind, I thought it best to just let him hang out and chill instead of facing down another big new thing.

We had 6 people in our first division and 4 in our second division. We had a show made for us as Cudo is a speed specialist and the classes were : 1:timed first round 2: 2 Phase with jump off and 3: faults converted, best time.

In the first division we were very good but the jumps were only 1m. We won the first class, came 2nd by 0.10 seconds in the second class, and then unfortunately I got lost on course in the 3rd class and came 5th. That meant that we finished as the reserve champion for that division.

In the second division we were a bit better, the jumper were now between 1.10 - 1.15m. Cudo seemed happier with the bigger efforts and indeed won the first two classes and came second in the last by a tiny amount which gave us the championship.

So all in all really not a bad day. Cudo has been royally pampered and the weather gave us a treat as well so he's out naked today and rolling in the mud and enjoying the nearly 55 degree temperature.

Videos are below.

When I get the video of Chad's clinic I will post it. I imagine it will be entertaining.

Em

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Random question. How many are in the classes in the U.S? Seems to be calmer than the U.k!
Well you have to understand we live in a very strong horsey area.

This weekend there were 6 jumper shows within approx a 100 mile radius. So while our show didn't have tons of people for these levels, there were overall 6 shows with these heights and classes.

Each show had in their Adult Ammy divisions the following number of entries :
Best: 8
CJL: 5
FHSS: 6
Duncraven: 6
Palermo: 4 (But they had 3 in a 1.30 class)
Swan Lake: 8

So overall there were 37. So figure that means instead of one or two champions for 1-2 shows, there were 6 champions.

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Thats alot less than here!! In Scotland we had 2 shows with the same classes within 70 miles of each other. Classes had 40 horses each in them and 6-7 classes a day!
I thought the u.s would have more than us!
 

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Ok but wait. Remember that here each 'division' normally has 3 classes or 2 at some smaller shows. So overall here are the prize lists of what we had. Make sure you look at the whole schedule.

Cudo ran 6 classes yesterday. And the way we separate out divisions and have multiples at each level means that we do more than 1 or 2 rounds per show.

Best: https://www.horseshowing.com/show_upload/6153/59.pdf
CJL: https://www.horseshowing.com/schedule.php
FHSS: https://www.horseshowing.com/show_upload/6130/5.pdf
Duncraven: https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/3acd38_f239feb4cca14d769270f32e032e53cf.pdf
Palermo: http://palermoshowstables.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/2019-Palermo-Winter-Fest-Prizelist-1.pdf
Swan Lake: http://www.swanlakestables.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2018-Holiday-Jumpers-PL.pdf


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Your entry fees are also cheaper. Even a 90cm would be more than £15! Plus your diesel will definately be cheaper! You are lucky😁

Oh I promise you that's not always true.

The lowest schooling show may well be a bargain but if you look to showing in Wellington Florida, you will see that we pay GOBS of money for the privilege.

Overall I am a frugal show rider but sometimes shows just are expensive.

Here's a spreadsheet of my costs this year. Remember this is for only 1 horse doing roughly 3 classes per show. And we did a total of 12 shows over the course of 9 months.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1P68y1DfaxEM8xM5-uT1sI-vrWUeTSgCaXHPBOctgNGg/edit?usp=sharing

And this spreadsheet doesn't cover the following:
Fuel
Hotels
Food
And off site stabling costs.


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