Bossanova
Well-Known Member
Less said about the dressage the better, she did an appalling tense test which really upset me as we've been working so hard and she felt so amazing in the warm-up until about 10 mins before we were due to go in. Spent most of the test leaping and skipping. Not amusing!!
Onto the sj, the course seemed to be causing quite a few problems which was a bit odd as it wasnt big. However, 1 and 2 were tiny then there was a nasty turn away from the collecting ring to a bigger parallel and a related distance to a spooky wall thing then another turn to a spooky filler that loads were stopping at.
Moon wasnt really focused and didnt jump 1 and 2 well then didnt really get the turn to no. 3 and we had a 'resistance' IE we stood on our hindlegs for about 5 seconds! Was very careful not to turn a circle and trotted her into 3 and to give her credit, she really pinged beautifully after that! So she jumped clear but got a really annoying 4 penalties for loss of momentum on the turn.
Xc walked quite small but there were a couple of things to question her and she jumped really beautifully around, made everything feel very easy. She popped through the bounce fantastically which was my main worry. Didnt push her fast as she's running at Gatcombe at the weekend and ground wasnt great so we got 18 time.
So in my eyes she did a cr*p dressage but jumped double clear!!
Onto the sj, the course seemed to be causing quite a few problems which was a bit odd as it wasnt big. However, 1 and 2 were tiny then there was a nasty turn away from the collecting ring to a bigger parallel and a related distance to a spooky wall thing then another turn to a spooky filler that loads were stopping at.
Moon wasnt really focused and didnt jump 1 and 2 well then didnt really get the turn to no. 3 and we had a 'resistance' IE we stood on our hindlegs for about 5 seconds! Was very careful not to turn a circle and trotted her into 3 and to give her credit, she really pinged beautifully after that! So she jumped clear but got a really annoying 4 penalties for loss of momentum on the turn.
Xc walked quite small but there were a couple of things to question her and she jumped really beautifully around, made everything feel very easy. She popped through the bounce fantastically which was my main worry. Didnt push her fast as she's running at Gatcombe at the weekend and ground wasnt great so we got 18 time.
So in my eyes she did a cr*p dressage but jumped double clear!!
