ann-jen
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Jenny's back in full work after her injury and going really well. She's so far done 2 intro shows. She won the first one and came 3rd at the second one.
The next show we could feasibly get to is on Bank Holiday Monday at Richmond with a view to doing the 80cm open and possibly the 90cm amateur class. When I looked at the schedule there seemed to be an unfeasibly huge number of classes on and the 80cm was something like 8th class. I rang to see what time it was likely to start but it would seem there are going to be some classes held on grass in the field by the drive. Both the classes I was intending doing will be on grass rather than the arena.
We've had no rain here for weeks and the ground is rock hard. Apparently if it doesn't rain much over the next week Richmond have promised to water the area where the SJ will be and failing that it might be moved inside (which would be better for me).
There are a few reasons why I'm not keen to jump on grass, firstly because of Jenny's injury and secondly because she's a head the ball to jump on grass! I don't mind jumping on grass really its just I feel I need a few more shows under my belt before attempting it in terms of Jenny's general wappiness.
Am I being a total fanny? The other spanner in the works is Jenny's new saddle will be arriving the day before (hurray) but its so different to the wow that I'm not sure how I feel about going straight to a show in it. I could obviously just go in Jenny's old saddle but wonder if I should just miss this show and have a practice in the new saddle for a while and then go to our next show in a few weeks. The trouble is finding a show that has an "easy" class for me (not Jen) isn't that easy round here. I think there might be a show at Blue Sky in a few weeks but I haven't been there before and so don't know what its like. I could go to Holmside Hall in 4 weeks time but would have to do the BN there - but I'd have 2 weeks to get used to the new saddle for that...... I'm hopeless at decisions so any input would be great.
The next show we could feasibly get to is on Bank Holiday Monday at Richmond with a view to doing the 80cm open and possibly the 90cm amateur class. When I looked at the schedule there seemed to be an unfeasibly huge number of classes on and the 80cm was something like 8th class. I rang to see what time it was likely to start but it would seem there are going to be some classes held on grass in the field by the drive. Both the classes I was intending doing will be on grass rather than the arena.
We've had no rain here for weeks and the ground is rock hard. Apparently if it doesn't rain much over the next week Richmond have promised to water the area where the SJ will be and failing that it might be moved inside (which would be better for me).
There are a few reasons why I'm not keen to jump on grass, firstly because of Jenny's injury and secondly because she's a head the ball to jump on grass! I don't mind jumping on grass really its just I feel I need a few more shows under my belt before attempting it in terms of Jenny's general wappiness.
Am I being a total fanny? The other spanner in the works is Jenny's new saddle will be arriving the day before (hurray) but its so different to the wow that I'm not sure how I feel about going straight to a show in it. I could obviously just go in Jenny's old saddle but wonder if I should just miss this show and have a practice in the new saddle for a while and then go to our next show in a few weeks. The trouble is finding a show that has an "easy" class for me (not Jen) isn't that easy round here. I think there might be a show at Blue Sky in a few weeks but I haven't been there before and so don't know what its like. I could go to Holmside Hall in 4 weeks time but would have to do the BN there - but I'd have 2 weeks to get used to the new saddle for that...... I'm hopeless at decisions so any input would be great.
