Joss
Well-Known Member
Yesterday we finally managed to do a One Day Event in one day! The first event of the season that has not required an overnight stay
The sun shone & the ground conditions were as close to perfect as you could ask for and everything ran very smoothly. First into action was the OH & Echo doing BE100 his dressage was ok but not entirely upto his usual standard & I was watching it from afar trying to prevent Bruno from whinnying to his friend & incurring the wrath of OH, the judge got rather stuck on the 6 button & he scored a moderate 38.5 but there were tons on the 40s (& even a few int he 50s) so cant complain.
SJ was fine - medium height & difficulty but clear rounds in all classes were sparse. Echo held it together beatifully until the absolute last fence when they both saw a bit of a 'weeee' stride & took the top rail. OH was then a grumpy bugger getting ready for XC
as it was all his fault!!
He was then foot perfect XC, made it look extremely easy. He caught up with the horse in front & I was having kittens as the fence judges didnt seem able to pull her out of the way but he eventually managed to shout at her & gallop by & Echo is so level headed XC that it didnt make to blindest bit of difference to him
He finished perfect about 6 seconds inside the time & came 10th.
I was in the ON, having a 'nice' run in between OI (which are slightly more stressful for rider!!) Dressage wasnt bad at all for us 33.3 which may have been fractionally better if I hadnt made a small error of course
Gotta 9 for my last halt
Had a huge gap until SJ & he came out fairly wild & was carting me at the practise jump, eventually gave up & went & jumped. Had 2 down, 1 of which was fair enough the other was annoying as I thought I had him anchored but hey ho!
XC obviously looked pretty small compared to recent Intermediate courses & I was a bit worried that he wouldnt back off anything at all & there were various combos which did require a degree of control
Anyway no need to worry & we sailed round, had to do bit of tugging at 'The Psephologists' jump (she was the fence judge) & confess to only putting 1 stride in the off set brushes where I think everyone else did it in 2. Was home inside the time, which very few were & ended up 6th
Wore my Air Jacket for its debut outing, I think I may have had it a little loose but it was very comfortable & the first thing I did once I was back into walk after the finish was unclip it
All in all a good day was had by all
The sun shone & the ground conditions were as close to perfect as you could ask for and everything ran very smoothly. First into action was the OH & Echo doing BE100 his dressage was ok but not entirely upto his usual standard & I was watching it from afar trying to prevent Bruno from whinnying to his friend & incurring the wrath of OH, the judge got rather stuck on the 6 button & he scored a moderate 38.5 but there were tons on the 40s (& even a few int he 50s) so cant complain.
SJ was fine - medium height & difficulty but clear rounds in all classes were sparse. Echo held it together beatifully until the absolute last fence when they both saw a bit of a 'weeee' stride & took the top rail. OH was then a grumpy bugger getting ready for XC
He was then foot perfect XC, made it look extremely easy. He caught up with the horse in front & I was having kittens as the fence judges didnt seem able to pull her out of the way but he eventually managed to shout at her & gallop by & Echo is so level headed XC that it didnt make to blindest bit of difference to him
I was in the ON, having a 'nice' run in between OI (which are slightly more stressful for rider!!) Dressage wasnt bad at all for us 33.3 which may have been fractionally better if I hadnt made a small error of course
Had a huge gap until SJ & he came out fairly wild & was carting me at the practise jump, eventually gave up & went & jumped. Had 2 down, 1 of which was fair enough the other was annoying as I thought I had him anchored but hey ho!
XC obviously looked pretty small compared to recent Intermediate courses & I was a bit worried that he wouldnt back off anything at all & there were various combos which did require a degree of control
Wore my Air Jacket for its debut outing, I think I may have had it a little loose but it was very comfortable & the first thing I did once I was back into walk after the finish was unclip it
All in all a good day was had by all
