kirstyhen
Well-Known Member
Yesterday we tootled down to Keysoe for the BE100, never been before, but it was lovely. Moot adored the surface in the outdoor arena, never felt her so happy!
Plaiting up with her massage pad, Moot was very stressed, as you can see...
The warm up for Dressage was, erm, 'interesting'. Moot spent the first 10 mins refusing to go forwards, rearing and tantruming on the spot. The cause was my stupidity, I'd put her bit up one hole on one side when I'd put it back together
Silly me, problem sorted she warmed up reletively well and did an 'alright' test, to score a 39. She's been doing so much better than that, but given what she started off like, I was happy!
Massive wait until my SJ, plenty of time to walk the course, have a picnic and a snooze
I thought the course looked great, but massive, not just one or two big fences, but everything looked huge! Particularly a couple of big, wide table type fences, a couple of ditches, a meaty corner with an alternative and an interesting double of skinnies on a curving line with a steep down hill part after the first skinny. But we wanted a challenge, so I was looking forward to seeing how she'd cope
Show Jumping, I did the bare minimum and went in early as it was hot and they were desperate for people to jump. It was perhaps one of the best rounds I have ever jumped on Moot, she was well eager, but totally and utterly focused on what I asked. We had one down where she jumped big into a related distance and I hooked into an upright, but I was chuffed with how she felt.
Cross Country, after a big wait due to a traffic light malfunction
we set off, got a totally duff stride to the first and I thought uh oh... but I needn't have worried, she was awesome! Not by any means a foot perfect round, she was totally the most honest horse ever at a skinny wishing well when we overshot the turn and she jumped into the middle of the fence rather than run out - amazing pony moment No. 1
She had a look see at the mound fences to see what was what but was never going to stop, flew the ditch and shot up the hill over the big scary fence in the corner - amazing pony No.2 I was grinning from ear to ear at that point
Down to the skinny barrels, jumped the first lovely, got deep to the second, half trotted and scrambled over somehow, I got thrown forwards and landed up by her ears, Moot righted herself, picked up canter, went down the slope, turned and jumped the big skinny brush by herself whilst I got myself back in the plate - Absolutley most amazing pony ever moment No. 3
With lots of good girls from me and big pats, she trundled off to the finish and finished exactly 1 second in the time
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152087338965431.901681.613165430&type=3
So a really chuffed Kirsty began to untack, wash off and unstud her pony... Only to get kicked in the face by the ruddy thing She just snatched her foot away as I started to take her back studs out, she has always been funny about her back legs and I just wasn't paying as much attention to what I was doing - to hyped up after her fabness 
Very very luckily she hasn't got me very badly, I look a little bit like the Elephant Women and I have an awesome black eye, but that's it!
Lemon Drizzle Cake for anyone that got this far, it is pretty awesome, even if I do say so myself!
Plaiting up with her massage pad, Moot was very stressed, as you can see...
The warm up for Dressage was, erm, 'interesting'. Moot spent the first 10 mins refusing to go forwards, rearing and tantruming on the spot. The cause was my stupidity, I'd put her bit up one hole on one side when I'd put it back together
Silly me, problem sorted she warmed up reletively well and did an 'alright' test, to score a 39. She's been doing so much better than that, but given what she started off like, I was happy!Massive wait until my SJ, plenty of time to walk the course, have a picnic and a snooze
I thought the course looked great, but massive, not just one or two big fences, but everything looked huge! Particularly a couple of big, wide table type fences, a couple of ditches, a meaty corner with an alternative and an interesting double of skinnies on a curving line with a steep down hill part after the first skinny. But we wanted a challenge, so I was looking forward to seeing how she'd cope Show Jumping, I did the bare minimum and went in early as it was hot and they were desperate for people to jump. It was perhaps one of the best rounds I have ever jumped on Moot, she was well eager, but totally and utterly focused on what I asked. We had one down where she jumped big into a related distance and I hooked into an upright, but I was chuffed with how she felt.
Cross Country, after a big wait due to a traffic light malfunction
we set off, got a totally duff stride to the first and I thought uh oh... but I needn't have worried, she was awesome! Not by any means a foot perfect round, she was totally the most honest horse ever at a skinny wishing well when we overshot the turn and she jumped into the middle of the fence rather than run out - amazing pony moment No. 1 She had a look see at the mound fences to see what was what but was never going to stop, flew the ditch and shot up the hill over the big scary fence in the corner - amazing pony No.2 I was grinning from ear to ear at that point
Down to the skinny barrels, jumped the first lovely, got deep to the second, half trotted and scrambled over somehow, I got thrown forwards and landed up by her ears, Moot righted herself, picked up canter, went down the slope, turned and jumped the big skinny brush by herself whilst I got myself back in the plate - Absolutley most amazing pony ever moment No. 3
With lots of good girls from me and big pats, she trundled off to the finish and finished exactly 1 second in the time
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152087338965431.901681.613165430&type=3
So a really chuffed Kirsty began to untack, wash off and unstud her pony... Only to get kicked in the face by the ruddy thing
She just snatched her foot away as I started to take her back studs out, she has always been funny about her back legs and I just wasn't paying as much attention to what I was doing - to hyped up after her fabness Very very luckily she hasn't got me very badly, I look a little bit like the Elephant Women and I have an awesome black eye, but that's it!
Lemon Drizzle Cake for anyone that got this far, it is pretty awesome, even if I do say so myself!
