Hallo2012
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in typical horse style the last few weeks have been flying highs as well as some lows, you can always rely on dressage to keep you grounded!
He made a cracking effort at the NEXGEN 5yo test which is a really tough one for the age group, and although he won he missed the magic qualifying 7 by 0.04! I was all set to give that another shot until we realised that despite this being a PONY class he actually falls foul of the lower height limit (138cm and he is only 133) so shouldn't have ever been allowed to enter.............i hold my hands up as not having bothered to read the rules in full stupidly assuming a pony is in fact a pony.
A real shame too as there are not many small performance stallions around and another chance to prove them is now forbidden!!!!!
But anyway......the work at home has been flying, that harder left to right change is coming along. I've worked out i need to keep the canter shorter and sharper and not let him get too forward in to them at the moment, but I've got a few weeks now before the BD young Pony champs to really crack on with these
we then had an absolute shocker of a show where he took total violent offence to possibly an old paving slab, but also possibly nothing and most unlike him told me it was a hard NO and refused to do anything except jump up and down on the spot........he's always been noticeably more tense in this arena compared to others but it still took me by surprise and i spent the following week freaking out he was 1.lame and 2.ruined (as is total horse owner logic, despite not taking a wrong step!)
so we set off this weekend to a venue i know he likes just to see..........................and despite me riding the worst first medium trot EVER and not preparing my first canter in the slightest, he got 67.41% in N37A and 4th overall out of 11.................annoyingly if i had actually got my act together and made it a 68% we would now have all our regionals points, as it is we need just 1 more!!!!!
E43 was the better test, i actually rode properly and he swung along a bit more..........a PB of 68.27% and 2nd overall out of 6
So i am not sure what it is about paving slab arena that he hates so much, but i am going to book an arena hire in Oct with a friend to try and work it out.
Next stop Young Pony Champs and then hopefully nab our last regionals points
He made a cracking effort at the NEXGEN 5yo test which is a really tough one for the age group, and although he won he missed the magic qualifying 7 by 0.04! I was all set to give that another shot until we realised that despite this being a PONY class he actually falls foul of the lower height limit (138cm and he is only 133) so shouldn't have ever been allowed to enter.............i hold my hands up as not having bothered to read the rules in full stupidly assuming a pony is in fact a pony.
A real shame too as there are not many small performance stallions around and another chance to prove them is now forbidden!!!!!
But anyway......the work at home has been flying, that harder left to right change is coming along. I've worked out i need to keep the canter shorter and sharper and not let him get too forward in to them at the moment, but I've got a few weeks now before the BD young Pony champs to really crack on with these
we then had an absolute shocker of a show where he took total violent offence to possibly an old paving slab, but also possibly nothing and most unlike him told me it was a hard NO and refused to do anything except jump up and down on the spot........he's always been noticeably more tense in this arena compared to others but it still took me by surprise and i spent the following week freaking out he was 1.lame and 2.ruined (as is total horse owner logic, despite not taking a wrong step!)
so we set off this weekend to a venue i know he likes just to see..........................and despite me riding the worst first medium trot EVER and not preparing my first canter in the slightest, he got 67.41% in N37A and 4th overall out of 11.................annoyingly if i had actually got my act together and made it a 68% we would now have all our regionals points, as it is we need just 1 more!!!!!
E43 was the better test, i actually rode properly and he swung along a bit more..........a PB of 68.27% and 2nd overall out of 6
So i am not sure what it is about paving slab arena that he hates so much, but i am going to book an arena hire in Oct with a friend to try and work it out.
Next stop Young Pony Champs and then hopefully nab our last regionals points
