Girlracer
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Firstly I have to apologise for the title of this thread, however I am all out of witty thread titles (not that previously they have been especially witty) and quite honestly so much has happened I'm not sure how to summarise that to 60 characters.
South Staffs Showing Show - 23rd April 2017
So I posted a few times here, of the impending days showing I had managed to sign myself up to. The day started well as I got out of the hired lorry at 7am to open the gate to the yard and I heard the air making a swift exit from a rear tyre... Thanks to the efforts of the breakdown service we were on our way by just after 9, so it could have been worse and I was silently releaved to have missed Best Turned Out despite having spent an hour sewing plaits the evening before.
It was all rather stressful after arriving, as my yard mate and his stable mate headed to the ring for their class immediately after arriving and I had to leave a very hot King with my none horsey OH whilst I tried desperately to dress myself in the pitch black in the back of a 3.5tonne horsebox. Having driven everyone mad with my constant screams of "is everything okay!?" from the lorry we were finally ready to go...
We promptly spent nearly an hour walking around the car park waiting for our first class, which I hadn't even wanted to do but felt I should as we had arrived so early. We finally headed in for 'Senior Best Rider'... yes I know... promptly lost the ability to canter on the right leg and nearly disappeared out of the arena a few times. I was pleasantly surprised with fourth place and a "very effectively ridden" from the judge.
We then had abit of a wait before entering the Sports Horse class followed immediately by the Ridden Hunter class. So the Sports Horse class consisted mostly of King and I arguing about whether he might like to stand still, deafening the entire show ground with his calls to his stable mate who was back at the lorry, and trying not to get run away with in the canter. However the judge was very kind to us and actually placed us third, and commented that had he stood still he would have been placed much higher.
So having had a stearn talking to, we re entered the ring for the ridden hunter class. Where he managed to both stand still and not deafen anyone... He did a lovely show and only went and won!
The point at which she said to me, "his manners are impeccable and of all the horses here I would love to spend a days hunting on him" I thought best not to mention the fact that the only time he went hunting he lost his marbels flipped over backwards and I walked for half an hour to collect him from a farmers field that he had jumped in to...
South Staffs Showing Show - 23rd April 2017
So I posted a few times here, of the impending days showing I had managed to sign myself up to. The day started well as I got out of the hired lorry at 7am to open the gate to the yard and I heard the air making a swift exit from a rear tyre... Thanks to the efforts of the breakdown service we were on our way by just after 9, so it could have been worse and I was silently releaved to have missed Best Turned Out despite having spent an hour sewing plaits the evening before.
It was all rather stressful after arriving, as my yard mate and his stable mate headed to the ring for their class immediately after arriving and I had to leave a very hot King with my none horsey OH whilst I tried desperately to dress myself in the pitch black in the back of a 3.5tonne horsebox. Having driven everyone mad with my constant screams of "is everything okay!?" from the lorry we were finally ready to go...
We promptly spent nearly an hour walking around the car park waiting for our first class, which I hadn't even wanted to do but felt I should as we had arrived so early. We finally headed in for 'Senior Best Rider'... yes I know... promptly lost the ability to canter on the right leg and nearly disappeared out of the arena a few times. I was pleasantly surprised with fourth place and a "very effectively ridden" from the judge.
We then had abit of a wait before entering the Sports Horse class followed immediately by the Ridden Hunter class. So the Sports Horse class consisted mostly of King and I arguing about whether he might like to stand still, deafening the entire show ground with his calls to his stable mate who was back at the lorry, and trying not to get run away with in the canter. However the judge was very kind to us and actually placed us third, and commented that had he stood still he would have been placed much higher.
So having had a stearn talking to, we re entered the ring for the ridden hunter class. Where he managed to both stand still and not deafen anyone... He did a lovely show and only went and won!
The point at which she said to me, "his manners are impeccable and of all the horses here I would love to spend a days hunting on him" I thought best not to mention the fact that the only time he went hunting he lost his marbels flipped over backwards and I walked for half an hour to collect him from a farmers field that he had jumped in to...
