henryhorn
Well-Known Member
Well before I tell you about our ODE at Moreton, let me tell you what happened on the way home. I get a call on my mobile from our next door neighbour, "Now don't worry but your husband has just gone off in the air ambulance to hospital..."
It seems he and Jacques parted company rather violently (not sure what happened, but he was thrown off, lay on the floor until one of our tenant's found him, they called the ambulnce which round here is a local part time fire brigade, they called the Air Ambulance and off he went to Exeter hospital!
I sounds as if he has smashed his heel quite badly, but all we can think of is he perhaps tightened the girth tighter than CCJ does, the horse came home with a bit of a sweat rash and she had been using a fluffy thing, I doubt he would have realised that and the extra pressure may have made it go wild.. I'll find out tomorrow after they operate no doubt. The horse has been good as gold with CCJ too all week..
Right back to the event. Last night CCJ's trainer said she needed to try working him in before the dressage as his best results have been with literally none at all.
Today was boiling hot so she did just ten mins, but as soon as he entered the arena he died on her. She was so busy attemptinmg to get him off her leg she forgot a halt and got beeped at (first time in her life). They crried on but the momentum had gone and it wasn't a particularly good test. I guessed36 and with the mistake, that's exactly what she scored.
Over to the Sj, she had already decided with a test like that she might as well just have fun, and he jumped a bold clear.
The Xc had a couple of more difficult fences, a corner and a jump over a log landing in the water, and he zoomed round clear. In the end they were 7th, so his record of being placed every event so far is unbroken..
She is upgrading him to Novice at Nutwell Court as he is finding P Novice very easy.
Our neighbour from up the road won her Open Pre Novice too, which was lovely, and the local saddle shop lady's son won his too, so we all got placed!
He lent us some slightly shorter but sharper spurs, we are at a loss what to do to get Chocx livelier in the dressage. He knows damn well she has no whip and just ambles compared to his way of working at home. He is so fit you wouldn't believe, he finished under the timebarely warm..(bear in mind he fence walks for at least 5 hours a day) and is on fast response feed, I am loathe to give him oats as he tied up once after rounding the whole horse herd up, and I wasn't sure it was the feed or excitement that caused it, but he needs more oomph from somewhere. He's fine jumping, but just finds dressge boring I think. I would like to feed him barley but am not sure if that will work.
Any quick fixes anyone?
So tomorrow I have to visit my husband in hospital , then arrange for my ill Mother in Law to be brought here 300 miles asap by my son as she is declining rapidly in health since her husband died three months ago, and my sister may have had a cancer relapse.. I feel like Casualty gone wrong...
Somehow it puts today's dressage fiasco into perspective doesn't it....
It seems he and Jacques parted company rather violently (not sure what happened, but he was thrown off, lay on the floor until one of our tenant's found him, they called the ambulnce which round here is a local part time fire brigade, they called the Air Ambulance and off he went to Exeter hospital!
I sounds as if he has smashed his heel quite badly, but all we can think of is he perhaps tightened the girth tighter than CCJ does, the horse came home with a bit of a sweat rash and she had been using a fluffy thing, I doubt he would have realised that and the extra pressure may have made it go wild.. I'll find out tomorrow after they operate no doubt. The horse has been good as gold with CCJ too all week..
Right back to the event. Last night CCJ's trainer said she needed to try working him in before the dressage as his best results have been with literally none at all.
Today was boiling hot so she did just ten mins, but as soon as he entered the arena he died on her. She was so busy attemptinmg to get him off her leg she forgot a halt and got beeped at (first time in her life). They crried on but the momentum had gone and it wasn't a particularly good test. I guessed36 and with the mistake, that's exactly what she scored.
Over to the Sj, she had already decided with a test like that she might as well just have fun, and he jumped a bold clear.
The Xc had a couple of more difficult fences, a corner and a jump over a log landing in the water, and he zoomed round clear. In the end they were 7th, so his record of being placed every event so far is unbroken..
She is upgrading him to Novice at Nutwell Court as he is finding P Novice very easy.
Our neighbour from up the road won her Open Pre Novice too, which was lovely, and the local saddle shop lady's son won his too, so we all got placed!
He lent us some slightly shorter but sharper spurs, we are at a loss what to do to get Chocx livelier in the dressage. He knows damn well she has no whip and just ambles compared to his way of working at home. He is so fit you wouldn't believe, he finished under the timebarely warm..(bear in mind he fence walks for at least 5 hours a day) and is on fast response feed, I am loathe to give him oats as he tied up once after rounding the whole horse herd up, and I wasn't sure it was the feed or excitement that caused it, but he needs more oomph from somewhere. He's fine jumping, but just finds dressge boring I think. I would like to feed him barley but am not sure if that will work.
Any quick fixes anyone?
So tomorrow I have to visit my husband in hospital , then arrange for my ill Mother in Law to be brought here 300 miles asap by my son as she is declining rapidly in health since her husband died three months ago, and my sister may have had a cancer relapse.. I feel like Casualty gone wrong...
Somehow it puts today's dressage fiasco into perspective doesn't it....
