wizoz
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I'm not sure how much I can type because my arms ache from just putting his studs in!!!
He travelled really well but we arrived a bit late because we followed a tractor on the A361 for 6 miles!!!!!!!! The pig driver passed by 4 laybys and had about a half a mile of traffic behind him but do you think he would pull in? I was like
Anyway, I ran off to get my number and walk the xc course leaving mum to look after Zeb. I felt the course was tiny and was glad Boo wasn't doing it because there just wasn't enough to make him back off but for Zeb it was fine (for a first outing together
)
Got back to the trailer and off loaded him, tacked him up and climbed aboard and off to dressage. All I can say is, the handbrake was well and truly ON!!! OMG, I did think he might wake up a bit at an event but hell no, he was just as bad as he is at home
He was such hard work but looking back at the video, he is consistent, if a little slow in trot, his upward transitions are beautiful and he does maintain a fab rhythm, his test came out at 36.5 so not as bad as i'd thought. I came out of the arena and said to mum, "they're going to slate me!"
Back to the trailer for a change of tack, a swift drink and banana, sauntered over to the showjumping which was just in front of the trailer and learnt the course. Jumped on and went to warm up. Thank goodness it's on all weather surface now, even the warm up, it had rained hard over night so I can imagine what the warm up could have been like. Warmed up (if you can call it that
) went in and lolloped around, did the first 3 fine but came around the corner to the 4th dissunited and rather ran into it so had it down then he started to back off the brightly coloured fence 5, propped nearly stopped at which point I took my hand off the reins to give him a hard clout with my whip but dropped the right side of my rein, and he took off over the fence with me hanging on to one side of him, how embarassing was that
got him back together and finished the course nicely, oh, I did have fence 5 down, surprise surprise
So, so far I have managed to do the crappest job on him by far, and am feeling quite down about my ability as a rider. He's won at this level for christ sake, how come I do such a sh1t job???
Anyway, no time to dwell just yet, here comes the fun part, right? Mmm, not sure what he thinks but I think it's the fun part! In the start box, count down 5,4,3,2,1 GOOOOOOOOOO...........................GO, handbrake off? No, handbrake on!!! Trundled up to the first fence, spooking all the way, scrambled over it and then I lost it, I turned my whip upside down (something I NEVER EVER do
) gave him 2 hard ones over the arse and get 3rd gear!! Yippee.
From then on I worked my ass off, i've NEVER had to sit 15 strides before a fence and drive before but with him, you need to work ALL the way round. By half way round the course I nearly gave up, I didn't know if I had the strength or breath in me to keep going
But the further we got the more he began to let off his handbrake. The fences are a piece of pi55 for him, SOOOOOOOOOO easy, it's the galloping inbetween he finds hard
we had one sticky moment at fence 12 (I think) it was a skinny roll top, through the horse shoe then another skinny roll top and bu99er me if the little s0d decided he didn't like the arch way!!! anyway, got him through it and completed the course.
So, what do I REALLY think? I think he was a real star, he was an angel at the event, he didn't do anything naughty he was just Zeb. He made my riding look like I was in the pony club and I'm quite
about it but when you watch the video it's not soooooooo bad
I'll try and get the video uploaded at some point but hubby has to do it on his pc and he doesn't "do" horses, so it could be a while.
We had 10 time faults on the xc so finished on a score of 55.5 or something like that. Don't know where it left me but probably the lower half of the table. But hey, it's another run under my belt
**whispers** Come back soon Boo, I miss you
Oh, I saw HH and CCJ, I think HH was a bit shocked at how big Zeb actually was!
Thanks for reading
Just finished my glass of wine so can't share it with ya all
He travelled really well but we arrived a bit late because we followed a tractor on the A361 for 6 miles!!!!!!!! The pig driver passed by 4 laybys and had about a half a mile of traffic behind him but do you think he would pull in? I was like
Anyway, I ran off to get my number and walk the xc course leaving mum to look after Zeb. I felt the course was tiny and was glad Boo wasn't doing it because there just wasn't enough to make him back off but for Zeb it was fine (for a first outing together
Got back to the trailer and off loaded him, tacked him up and climbed aboard and off to dressage. All I can say is, the handbrake was well and truly ON!!! OMG, I did think he might wake up a bit at an event but hell no, he was just as bad as he is at home
Back to the trailer for a change of tack, a swift drink and banana, sauntered over to the showjumping which was just in front of the trailer and learnt the course. Jumped on and went to warm up. Thank goodness it's on all weather surface now, even the warm up, it had rained hard over night so I can imagine what the warm up could have been like. Warmed up (if you can call it that
Anyway, no time to dwell just yet, here comes the fun part, right? Mmm, not sure what he thinks but I think it's the fun part! In the start box, count down 5,4,3,2,1 GOOOOOOOOOO...........................GO, handbrake off? No, handbrake on!!! Trundled up to the first fence, spooking all the way, scrambled over it and then I lost it, I turned my whip upside down (something I NEVER EVER do
From then on I worked my ass off, i've NEVER had to sit 15 strides before a fence and drive before but with him, you need to work ALL the way round. By half way round the course I nearly gave up, I didn't know if I had the strength or breath in me to keep going
So, what do I REALLY think? I think he was a real star, he was an angel at the event, he didn't do anything naughty he was just Zeb. He made my riding look like I was in the pony club and I'm quite
We had 10 time faults on the xc so finished on a score of 55.5 or something like that. Don't know where it left me but probably the lower half of the table. But hey, it's another run under my belt
**whispers** Come back soon Boo, I miss you
Oh, I saw HH and CCJ, I think HH was a bit shocked at how big Zeb actually was!
Thanks for reading
