Christmas Crumpet
Well-Known Member
Happy has now had 6 proper days hunting as well as 8 days cubbing so is really getting the hang of it. Last Tuesday and Saturday he was brilliant and he loves it. He has jumped impeccably over all sorts of things and never got excited when queueing for a jump, will canter in steadily, has jumped big ditches onto banks, off banks, done gates for a day, has brakes 85% of the time. We jumped a row of three sets of rails on Sat and he did the first one perfectly, second one he was going to get wrong so I asked him for a long one and he flew (the girl behind me said "bl**dy hell - that was what they call taking a flyer!!) and did the third perfectly.
I am so chuffed with him and I find it a real sense of achievement when we have great days like we did last week. It means a hell of a lot more to me because he's the first horse I've "made" as it were. I've had horses that would jump the moon before but none as special as this one.
Just goes to show that ex rachehorses can turn their hoof to anything. There's also nothing better than when hounds are running and you have the TB accelaration which means you just nip straight past everyone else!!
I am so chuffed with him and I find it a real sense of achievement when we have great days like we did last week. It means a hell of a lot more to me because he's the first horse I've "made" as it were. I've had horses that would jump the moon before but none as special as this one.
Just goes to show that ex rachehorses can turn their hoof to anything. There's also nothing better than when hounds are running and you have the TB accelaration which means you just nip straight past everyone else!!
