Eland Lodge OPN

Loanee has never yet managed to compete a Be event for some reason something always goes wrong. So when the day started with an early morning call from loanee I feard the worse. Her Mum had spent the night being sick and was in no condition to drive the lorry so rather than meeting her at Eland I had to take her in my lorry.

So having passed the first hurdle of getting to an event it was on to the dressage. Ed warmed up really well was very relaxed. Loanee rode very well and it was a lovely test and she scored an amazing 21.9
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On to show jumping. They jumped the first part of the course really well but then saw a short stride into the double which led to Ed getting a little long over the last part of the course so had a couple down.

So quick change of boots and onto the XC. Eland is an amazing viewing course so managed to see most of the round which looked pretty foot perfect to me. Finished with a clear and 0.8 time faults. Was pleased to see that despite two down showjumping she finished 5th.
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Wow great result
and what a lovely thing for you to do to take her to the comp instead of her missing it . Wish all owners were like that
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Oh so it was your horse that had the amazing dressage score!! Though the score board writers wrote it up wrong which confused everybody when they came to write out the places. We were 7th in the OPN
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Excellent well done.

drjames - what fence were you judging?
 
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I agree with drjames. Only the best fence judges go to Eland Lodge!

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Not all of them. There was one fence judging team on Sunday that did not know what day of the week it was. We radioed Control to overrule them on a decision as they had failed to spot a horse refuse on their part B!
 
I was in the OPN class too! We had a career best dressage score 26.7
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. Silly rider managed to get him to knock a pole down but a clear XC in the mud enabled us to get 4th! Not bad considering his 1st XC in nearly a year. Unfortunately got balotted from kelsall OPN this weekend which means going to Bradwall Novice without another run then onto Chatsworth
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