Rosiefan
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A very foggy start this morning but the sun came out and it was warm enough to sit around on chairs round the lorry!
By midday, Rosie had finished on FJ and it was time to get Stan off the lorry. The plan was to lunge him because he is so exuberant and full of himself and Rosie's Dad took him off to a quiet corner. He was completely loopy, careering round, slipping all over the place, bucking, *********g - the lot much to the amusement of the people who stood and watched and wondered what sort of idiot was going to get on that! Eventually he calmed down so over to the dressage warm up and some more lunging. Rosie took over and after a bit more messing around he calmed down enough for her to get on and do some ridden work. He amazed us all by doing a fairly sensible test and we were thrilled to find out later that he'd been given 31 and was somewhere in the top half.
Quite a long wait for the BE100 sections to finish their SJ and off they went to warm up and then a lovely clear round. Good boy Stan but Rosie was so quick off the mark that I was still in the loo when she started and I just saw the last couple of jumps .
I was up on the mound in plenty of time to watch their XC and was very confused when I thought I heard he'd started and finished without me seeing him. Turned out Rosie felt he wasn't quite sound in the warm up, got nearly as far as the start box and decided to withdraw. She's thinking he may have kicked himself during the lunging fun and games but we think it's nothing a bit of rest and recuperation won't cure so not too downhearted. He didn't look lame and had a very healthy interest in eating as much grass as possible before he went back on the lorry.
Obviously he would have won but for the above . To be serious, I'm sure he'll be fighting fit in no time and he's entered for Gt Witchingham in 3 weeks time so fingers crossed .
Thanks for reading if you have.
By midday, Rosie had finished on FJ and it was time to get Stan off the lorry. The plan was to lunge him because he is so exuberant and full of himself and Rosie's Dad took him off to a quiet corner. He was completely loopy, careering round, slipping all over the place, bucking, *********g - the lot much to the amusement of the people who stood and watched and wondered what sort of idiot was going to get on that! Eventually he calmed down so over to the dressage warm up and some more lunging. Rosie took over and after a bit more messing around he calmed down enough for her to get on and do some ridden work. He amazed us all by doing a fairly sensible test and we were thrilled to find out later that he'd been given 31 and was somewhere in the top half.
Quite a long wait for the BE100 sections to finish their SJ and off they went to warm up and then a lovely clear round. Good boy Stan but Rosie was so quick off the mark that I was still in the loo when she started and I just saw the last couple of jumps .
I was up on the mound in plenty of time to watch their XC and was very confused when I thought I heard he'd started and finished without me seeing him. Turned out Rosie felt he wasn't quite sound in the warm up, got nearly as far as the start box and decided to withdraw. She's thinking he may have kicked himself during the lunging fun and games but we think it's nothing a bit of rest and recuperation won't cure so not too downhearted. He didn't look lame and had a very healthy interest in eating as much grass as possible before he went back on the lorry.
Obviously he would have won but for the above . To be serious, I'm sure he'll be fighting fit in no time and he's entered for Gt Witchingham in 3 weeks time so fingers crossed .
Thanks for reading if you have.