Rosiefan
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Day 2 at Gt Witch for Rosie and her Mum with Frodo starting at 1pm. I left home early to join them as its quite a way from me and arrived to find both horses in their stables, Bertie with a haynet, Frodo without but plaited and polished. Hed acquired a good covering of shavings though and some time was spent picking them out of his plaits and tail and brushing him down.
It was his first time with studs and he was in big disgrace for scraping the side of the lorry with his teeth while Rosie was putting them in. I guess they felt strange as he tripped a bit at first and his test was quite wobbly, not as good as at Stratford Hills - actually did a few steps of canter down the centre line when he entered and jogged/tripped in the walk phases. It was also in a long arena which may have been a factor but Rosie said it was her fault as she rode him so badly! She and Mum guessed 40+ so we were very happy with 35.5.
Ive been teasing R about him always having one down SJ and I reckon it annoyed her enough to make her even more determined than usual - so they went clear. Result
Time to get togged up for the XC and - novel idea suggested by a friend who always does it with horses who dont like getting their feet wet - boots dunked in a bucket of water before they were put on + a liberal dousing of all 4 legs with a sopping wet sponge just before they went over to the start. Not sure if it was down to that but something worked because he went through the water without too much encouragement and they zoomed home with just 3.6 time. Frodos first DC
big hugs and pats and lots of polos after his bath.
We went to look at the scores but there werent many up so we watched the SJ for a bit and sat around in the sun before going to have another look. Although all the dressage scores were filled in, only half of the SJ and about 5 XC were up (including hers) and while it was possible to see they couldnt win we simply couldnt tell whether she was in for a placing or not so we decided to call it a day and start the long trek home.
Some vid - a bit of stressage and XC and then the SJ.
http://www.youtube.com/user/aseretnotliks#p/a/u/1/CoKC1Beojgk
http://www.youtube.com/user/aseretnotliks#p/a/u/0/cHM54D1aO0k
Thrilled to bits to look at the results this morning and find out they ended up 5th and apologies to the organisers and sponsors for not being there to pick up the rosette but it was such a long way home
Thanks for reading if you have and a few gratuitous photos I took. We bought 4 from the official tog but werent able to ask permission to post as he was still out on the course working.
ready for the SJ
having his plaits unraveled for the XC
and both of them stuffing their faces just before we left
It was his first time with studs and he was in big disgrace for scraping the side of the lorry with his teeth while Rosie was putting them in. I guess they felt strange as he tripped a bit at first and his test was quite wobbly, not as good as at Stratford Hills - actually did a few steps of canter down the centre line when he entered and jogged/tripped in the walk phases. It was also in a long arena which may have been a factor but Rosie said it was her fault as she rode him so badly! She and Mum guessed 40+ so we were very happy with 35.5.
Ive been teasing R about him always having one down SJ and I reckon it annoyed her enough to make her even more determined than usual - so they went clear. Result
Time to get togged up for the XC and - novel idea suggested by a friend who always does it with horses who dont like getting their feet wet - boots dunked in a bucket of water before they were put on + a liberal dousing of all 4 legs with a sopping wet sponge just before they went over to the start. Not sure if it was down to that but something worked because he went through the water without too much encouragement and they zoomed home with just 3.6 time. Frodos first DC
big hugs and pats and lots of polos after his bath. We went to look at the scores but there werent many up so we watched the SJ for a bit and sat around in the sun before going to have another look. Although all the dressage scores were filled in, only half of the SJ and about 5 XC were up (including hers) and while it was possible to see they couldnt win we simply couldnt tell whether she was in for a placing or not so we decided to call it a day and start the long trek home.
Some vid - a bit of stressage and XC and then the SJ.
http://www.youtube.com/user/aseretnotliks#p/a/u/1/CoKC1Beojgk
http://www.youtube.com/user/aseretnotliks#p/a/u/0/cHM54D1aO0k
Thrilled to bits to look at the results this morning and find out they ended up 5th and apologies to the organisers and sponsors for not being there to pick up the rosette but it was such a long way home
Thanks for reading if you have and a few gratuitous photos I took. We bought 4 from the official tog but werent able to ask permission to post as he was still out on the course working.
ready for the SJ
having his plaits unraveled for the XC
and both of them stuffing their faces just before we left
