Goring report, tia's first novice!!

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Tia's first novice and mine for well over a year, and it couldnt of gone much better! She was a total superstar
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Drove over on saturday evening after work to walk the course- and to say i had butterflys by the end of it was an understatment!! Novice sure is tougher than i remember, with a massive leaf-pit esque drop (or so i thought!) at 5, a dodgey box thing with various different approaches to choose from at 8 and a double of corners towards the end of the course there were more than enough questions to keep me up that night!!

Seet off from yard around half 5ish to arive with plenty of time for 9am dressage. She floated around doing her thing, showed a bit of tightness in the left canter but on the whole was as fantastic as ever- scored 31.4.

Onto the showjumping, roled 2 poles, middle part of the trebble and the last fence. Cant really complain too much as she doesnt showjump from one event to the next (due to being based on a dressage yard with severe lack of poles still....) so sometimes looses her teqhnique when she gets too excited!

Then onto the xc....And i neednt have worried really, she knew exactly what to do! the Box thing was a little dodgey, got a good line and she was going, but didnt quite the right canter so was on a bit of a half stride but she picked up some how! flew around the rest of the course and got just 8 time
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Finished in 10th and now have one very special shiney BE point!

couldnt be more plesed with how she went and have entered berkshire college and tehn probably finish on twesledown, all being well!
 
Fantastic, we are doing our first next week at Gatcombe!
Does that mean you are out of pre novice and have to do open pre novice? I expect you don't care because the sky is the limit now.
WELL DONE
 
Really well done! We were wondering if you'd make 10th or not, so very good going! I have no idea how you ride that box nicely - I certainly made a hell of a hash of it!
 
i watched your video and you rode it really well! was just a shame neddie wasnt quite as spot on as you. i came at it from the right hand side rather than the left, not that it makes much difference!! i had no idea either, somehow plucked up the courage to ask man in the box next to me (neil spratt) who was very helpful!
 
Tell me what he said! Wish I'd had the foresight to ask - I spent ages watching people but no-one rode it well, then asked the fence judge at that fence and at the trakhener, and the general consensus was the 'indirect' line was riding marginally better, but it was a close run thing.
 
He told me he was riding it from the right hand side on a positive stride, not trying to ride it like a true skinny because or the fences on either side to keep your straight. He said as long as the horse can see the gap inbetween the fences (ie not too tighter angle), and i rode positive then it rides surprisingly well! from what i could gather, the more experinced horses found it ok, but the lesser were slightly confused by it!
 
Ok, thanks! I think inexperience on both our parts then, shame. Pity as B stormed round the rest of the course and made nothing of it, oh well.
 
Neil is my instructor, he's given me sooooo much confidence. He really is one of those "nice men" - not many of those around and he has a wonderful way with horses! I love watching him ride he just makes it look like he's sat there doing nothing!!!!
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