Easter weekend plans

[nikkimariet]

Winter champs yesterday for Rooni

He came out really relaxed for the PSG - lit up a little in the ring but a super test with just one mistake (a little expensive in the right half canter piri as double collective). 3rd place with 67.5% Highest placed amateur!

I missed the prize giving - I went over on foot but you have to be mounted - no point taking him in when 20 mins later we had our second test to do. If it had upset him I would have been kicking myself!

Then the inter 1 - tried really hard to be a bit braver and I was so focused on pushing the neck out in the ext trot I rode to M not R… so -2, duff trot score, duff transition score and duff walk score… Very expensive but completely my fault and still finished 8th with just under 66%



Really proud of him and looking forwards to our next competition!

 

[j1ffy]

Winter champs yesterday for Rooni

He came out really relaxed for the PSG - lit up a little in the ring but a super test with just one mistake (a little expensive in the right half canter piri as double collective). 3rd place with 67.5% Highest placed amateur!

I missed the prize giving - I went over on foot but you have to be mounted - no point taking him in when 20 mins later we had our second test to do. If it had upset him I would have been kicking myself!

Then the inter 1 - tried really hard to be a bit braver and I was so focused on pushing the neck out in the ext trot I rode to M not R… so -2, duff trot score, duff transition score and duff walk score… Very expensive but completely my fault and still finished 8th with just under 66%

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Really proud of him and looking forwards to our next competition!

Fantastic results - well done!!!

 

[SaddlePsych'D]

I'm ending the weekend on a less positive note but practicing change of mindset to see what I can learn from it. It was one of those days where negative thoughts started spiralling: 'I don't know what I'm doing, maybe horses aren't for me, I'm useless... etc. etc.' So I had a (kind) word with myself that progress is going to be up and down. It really helps being on a supportive yard.

So my re-frame is - today I got some experience of attempting groundwork and lunging with a horse who was distracted/calling for his field buddy, in drizzly weather, with a (I think) light aircraft firing up its engine a few fields away. I practiced knowing one's limits/quitting while ahead I learned that some days you might need to just take your slightly jig-joggy horse back to his field and call it a day because it's not going to plan and you haven't yet learned the skills you need to work through. Also that a neigh directly to the ear is rather loud!

The riding did go well though and I had two sessions over the weekend practicing keeping riding when nerves are there. It's working and both times I ended the ride feeling better than at the start. I also had a slight notion about cantering but not quite there yet.

 

[showjumpingharry]

38.5 dressage (the less said about this the better!) and a double clear for Jack! A few speeding penalties xc as we motored on a bit too much. It didn't feel ridiculously fast but I've been hunting and riding out all winter and he is a big horse

Overall absolutely thrilled with him and one of those days where I feel like the luckiest girl ever to have him. And he loved being out of retirement and spending his 20th birthday doing what he does best

 

[MuddyMonster]

I had a great polework lesson on Friday followed by two really lovely hacks (mainly cantering through bluebells ) and a really positive arena Trec session.

Just one of those weekends where despite the drizzle, it makes you really happy to just be whizzing around on your horse. 10 year old me would have been very jealous of current me!