Hattikins
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Picture happy post as Dad made a rare appearance as he wasn't working, and was complete with whizzy camera We couldn't have had a better day really, and the sun shining just improved things that much more! The aim was to get another 90 event under our belt before Grassroots champs.
First up dressage, and after a slightly unimpressive warm up where Jack just didn't feel as soft and active as he has at home, he improved considerably when he entered the arena. We've been working on improving his activity and stride length in trot whilst keeping the tempo steady which I felt had improved today compared to tweseldown last week where I pushed him slightly out of his rhythm. And his canter was felt much bigger and more fluid than it has in the past so all steps in the right direction hopefully! We recieved a 32.5 for our efforts which tucked us into 3rd after dressage with the leader on 30.5.
Onto the SJing, after Jack had made the most of snoozing and then yawning continuously as I tacked him up again, making the people parked next door laugh! He jumped a lovely clear despite a sticky moment at fence 6 an oxer on the turn where I got him a little too deep and he very carefully snapped up each foot in order to clear it cleanly!
Finally onto the XC and what a lovely ride he gave me. We had had a rather iffy schooling session a few weeks ago at munstead where we had gone on our own and he turned very anxious on me and extremely sticky so I was hoping he wouldnt remember that! Thankfully with his ears flicking back and forth constantly to listen to me he popped round very happily
So big gold star for Jack, and big sighs of relief that our preparations for badders this year are somewhat less eventful so far after last years antics! fingers crossed it remains that way! We had a lovely end to the afternoon eating icecreams in the sun and to top it all off we won the section with 4.5 penalties in hand
So very happy Hattikins camp (including Daisy the dog who ate quite a lot of picnic as we forgot to give her breakfast before we left! and she also polished off the end of the icecreams ) I have Roast beef and yorkshire puddings on offer if you got to the end!
First up dressage, and after a slightly unimpressive warm up where Jack just didn't feel as soft and active as he has at home, he improved considerably when he entered the arena. We've been working on improving his activity and stride length in trot whilst keeping the tempo steady which I felt had improved today compared to tweseldown last week where I pushed him slightly out of his rhythm. And his canter was felt much bigger and more fluid than it has in the past so all steps in the right direction hopefully! We recieved a 32.5 for our efforts which tucked us into 3rd after dressage with the leader on 30.5.
Onto the SJing, after Jack had made the most of snoozing and then yawning continuously as I tacked him up again, making the people parked next door laugh! He jumped a lovely clear despite a sticky moment at fence 6 an oxer on the turn where I got him a little too deep and he very carefully snapped up each foot in order to clear it cleanly!
Finally onto the XC and what a lovely ride he gave me. We had had a rather iffy schooling session a few weeks ago at munstead where we had gone on our own and he turned very anxious on me and extremely sticky so I was hoping he wouldnt remember that! Thankfully with his ears flicking back and forth constantly to listen to me he popped round very happily
So big gold star for Jack, and big sighs of relief that our preparations for badders this year are somewhat less eventful so far after last years antics! fingers crossed it remains that way! We had a lovely end to the afternoon eating icecreams in the sun and to top it all off we won the section with 4.5 penalties in hand
So very happy Hattikins camp (including Daisy the dog who ate quite a lot of picnic as we forgot to give her breakfast before we left! and she also polished off the end of the icecreams ) I have Roast beef and yorkshire puddings on offer if you got to the end!