alidegg
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Firstly, I apologise in advance for any bad spelling/ poor grammar/ general delinquency... Thats just me 
Sorry! Lolo will be un-banned on 19th May so no fear, this is only temporary 
Not a good start for any report writing because it was erm.... awful! I’ve never had a good run at Isleham (ever!)… In fact, here’s a rundown of my bad luck;
• Pony refused to go over the little ditch, despite having never stopped at a ditch before. He then refused to leave the course.
• Same pony (this time at the area eventing
) parked himself on top of the big mound and refused to move. At all. Not even at a fence. And in full view of the lorry park. For 20 minutes.
• Different pony, fell off twice xc so the big E at my first ever BE event having been in the top 4 after the dressage and SJ.
• Fregs last year, got 50 dressage as he reared in every corners screaming SCARYYYY WHITE BOARDS, than had a mega wobble sj having nearly everything down so I retired.
• Area eventing last summer, E’d XC at the ditch to the skinny as at that point we had no button for 'jump ditch sensibly' or 'jump skinny fence without falling on face'
Those are the only times we’ve been as well… But we need a run and the ground there is ok so we set off…
I had to plait because Lolo is revising and refused to come all the way back to Norfolk to plait for me. Not impressed! Took me quite a long time despite he numerous reasurances that 'his mane practically plaits itself', thanks for that Lolo
Stressage was a bit meh. It was the open test, and we havent had any stressage input since Burnham because we arent allowed to trot on a single field locally because of the cr*p ground and Nini is at Pigs looking after her big boys! He curled up and dropped completely behind my leg after the free walk and intsead of being brave and shaking him forwards again I sat like a plumb and made it as obvious as possible that we were going no where by nagging him... sack the jockey
Was pleased with 40, very generous! Thank you, kind PC marking
SJ… Well. Oh dear. Warming up he popped really sweetly over the cross so I came to the upright as it was, up to height, which was stupid because I know how fragile his confidence is sj. We duly went straight through it on a completely duff stride Determined it was a minor blip (!) we jollyed over the cross pole a few more times and the parallel and went in thinking he'd be okay. I was wrong! Jumped 1 the rustic fine, then were wrong to the upright at 2 so surpise, had that down. He really didnt enjoy the going in there, I think perhaps the peaty soil makes the sensitive souls think they're jumping off false ground? No idea 
I had the canter I wanted and he felt like he was gaining in confidence only to suddenly grind to a halt at fence 5. Came again and popped it sweetly but I think by now the wheels were well and truley wobbling off and he stopped at the second part of the double, then on coming again said no thanks to the double all together. So we were eliminated... He very rarely stops so I'm left thinking what have I done to my poor genuine pony?! Hoping its just our lack of prep and I think we both need to go out and SJ regularly so keep our confidence up in each other as we've had all the usuals checked recently. Heres the sj for anyone interested
[youtube]fDa-eCQ72jA[/youtube]
Onto the XC where they kindly let us run. Had a really stupid stop at the big log before the water; as you can see on the vid (very kindly taken by the lovely Dafthoss!) I blithered along on the wrong leg around the corner, failed to set up sufficiently and come to sliding stop... Again sack the jockey He was really good through all our usual nemeses- the rolltop-ditch-skinny, the corner, all the stuff that could have been an issue previously he went really well through! We actually trust each other xc now (to an extent ) and he feels pretty classy (most of the time )
[youtube]5j7VYIv5jiQ[/youtube]
All in all a bit of a meh day! Sorry for the huge report Left over rocky road to any one who fancies it, without any of our usual support team theres more than enough to go round! And it has nuts in, super healthy 
Thanks for reading! Al 
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Sorry! Lolo will be un-banned on 19th May so no fear, this is only temporary Not a good start for any report writing because it was erm.... awful! I’ve never had a good run at Isleham (ever!)… In fact, here’s a rundown of my bad luck;
• Pony refused to go over the little ditch, despite having never stopped at a ditch before. He then refused to leave the course.
• Same pony (this time at the area eventing
) parked himself on top of the big mound and refused to move. At all. Not even at a fence. And in full view of the lorry park. For 20 minutes. • Different pony, fell off twice xc so the big E at my first ever BE event having been in the top 4 after the dressage and SJ.
• Fregs last year, got 50 dressage as he reared in every corners screaming SCARYYYY WHITE BOARDS, than had a mega wobble sj having nearly everything down so I retired.
• Area eventing last summer, E’d XC at the ditch to the skinny as at that point we had no button for 'jump ditch sensibly' or 'jump skinny fence without falling on face'
Those are the only times we’ve been as well… But we need a run and the ground there is ok so we set off…
I had to plait because Lolo is revising and refused to come all the way back to Norfolk to plait for me. Not impressed! Took me quite a long time despite he numerous reasurances that 'his mane practically plaits itself', thanks for that Lolo
Stressage was a bit meh. It was the open test, and we havent had any stressage input since Burnham because we arent allowed to trot on a single field locally because of the cr*p ground and Nini is at Pigs looking after her big boys! He curled up and dropped completely behind my leg after the free walk and intsead of being brave and shaking him forwards again I sat like a plumb and made it as obvious as possible that we were going no where by nagging him... sack the jockey
Was pleased with 40, very generous! Thank you, kind PC marking SJ… Well. Oh dear. Warming up he popped really sweetly over the cross so I came to the upright as it was, up to height, which was stupid because I know how fragile his confidence is sj. We duly went straight through it on a completely duff stride
Determined it was a minor blip (!) we jollyed over the cross pole a few more times and the parallel and went in thinking he'd be okay. I was wrong! Jumped 1 the rustic fine, then were wrong to the upright at 2 so surpise, had that down. He really didnt enjoy the going in there, I think perhaps the peaty soil makes the sensitive souls think they're jumping off false ground? No idea I had the canter I wanted and he felt like he was gaining in confidence only to suddenly grind to a halt at fence 5. Came again and popped it sweetly but I think by now the wheels were well and truley wobbling off and he stopped at the second part of the double, then on coming again said no thanks to the double all together. So we were eliminated... He very rarely stops so I'm left thinking what have I done to my poor genuine pony?! Hoping its just our lack of prep and I think we both need to go out and SJ regularly so keep our confidence up in each other as we've had all the usuals checked recently. Heres the sj for anyone interested [youtube]fDa-eCQ72jA[/youtube]
Onto the XC where they kindly let us run. Had a really stupid stop at the big log before the water; as you can see on the vid (very kindly taken by the lovely Dafthoss!) I blithered along on the wrong leg around the corner, failed to set up sufficiently and come to sliding stop... Again sack the jockey
He was really good through all our usual nemeses- the rolltop-ditch-skinny, the corner, all the stuff that could have been an issue previously he went really well through! We actually trust each other xc now (to an extent ) and he feels pretty classy (most of the time ) [youtube]5j7VYIv5jiQ[/youtube]
All in all a bit of a meh day! Sorry for the huge report
Left over rocky road to any one who fancies it, without any of our usual support team theres more than enough to go round! And it has nuts in, super healthy Thanks for reading! Al .
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