Mickeymoo
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OH kindly entered me in the Eland ODE on his 23 year old cob Shiney aka The Wise One. This seemed like a good idea when we had talked about it.. I suppose the large glass of wine I was drinking at the time helped.. 
Until I realised earlier this week that I had to do the dressage on grass. So, I hear you say. I have only done 1 test on Shiney on grass and he galloped off with me twice and I retired
So, got on for the dressage with not too much warming up time as the more warming up he does, the more excited he gets. Was just about to go in and I forgot the test.. yikes, think it was a mixture of nerves and old age. (sorry Old Git not trying to tread on your toes! )
Did a very forward test and he was very strong, but I managed to keep the accuracy (thank you Dark_Knight for drilling 'the importance of accuracy' into me).
Back on the trailer for an hour and time to sit in the sun.
Then, off to the jumping. Warmed up really nicely and he was very calm, think a mixture of dutch gag and enclosed arena. Again, I didn't warm up for too long and off I went. We jumped clear and Shiney jumped out of his skin. He leapt everything, after No7 the double I nearly fell off he jumped that big out of it.
Then it was a quick change for me, a quick dousing of water over Shiney as he had sweat dripping off his belly and we were off to the xc. I got there to learn there was 10 infront of me. So I went and found a tree to stand underneath out of the sun. Mrs Mozart came over to say hi, lovely to meet you. Then when there was 2 to go we went and popped a couple of jumps and we were off.
We leapt No1 and No2, tried to bugger off when he saw No3 the crocodile, but managed to jump it exactly where I didn't want to. Then we were off round the course leaping everything. Nearly fell off about 3 times as he was really jumping everything big, lol, but my self preservation got the better of me. I let him choose the pace as I didn't want to ask too much of him.
Results.. finished double clear and 40 dressage. I was 35 seconds over time and we finished 7th out of 35 entries. Not bad for a 23 year old show cob.
We have come home absolutely over the moon with him. We have had such a lovely day with our boy and have met lots of lovely people.
Shiney is having a weeks rest now.
Thanks for reading.. wine and nibbles to all. xx
Until I realised earlier this week that I had to do the dressage on grass. So, I hear you say. I have only done 1 test on Shiney on grass and he galloped off with me twice and I retired So, got on for the dressage with not too much warming up time as the more warming up he does, the more excited he gets.
Was just about to go in and I forgot the test.. yikes, think it was a mixture of nerves and old age. (sorry Old Git not trying to tread on your toes! )Did a very forward test and he was very strong, but I managed to keep the accuracy (thank you Dark_Knight for drilling 'the importance of accuracy' into me
).Back on the trailer for an hour and time to sit in the sun.
Then, off to the jumping. Warmed up really nicely and he was very calm, think a mixture of dutch gag and enclosed arena. Again, I didn't warm up for too long and off I went. We jumped clear and Shiney jumped out of his skin. He leapt everything, after No7 the double I nearly fell off he jumped that big out of it.
Then it was a quick change for me, a quick dousing of water over Shiney as he had sweat dripping off his belly and we were off to the xc. I got there to learn there was 10 infront of me. So I went and found a tree to stand underneath out of the sun. Mrs Mozart came over to say hi, lovely to meet you.
Then when there was 2 to go we went and popped a couple of jumps and we were off.We leapt No1 and No2, tried to bugger off when he saw No3 the crocodile, but managed to jump it exactly where I didn't want to. Then we were off round the course leaping everything. Nearly fell off about 3 times as he was really jumping everything big, lol, but my self preservation got the better of me. I let him choose the pace as I didn't want to ask too much of him.
Results.. finished double clear and 40 dressage. I was 35 seconds over time and we finished 7th out of 35 entries. Not bad for a 23 year old show cob.
We have come home absolutely over the moon with him. We have had such a lovely day with our boy and have met lots of lovely people.
Shiney is having a weeks rest now.
Thanks for reading.. wine and nibbles to all. xx
