RobinHood
Well-Known Member
Well for once we actually arrived at exactly the time we planned
but spolied it by leaving Sparrow's passport at home so my lovely father had to fly down the A3 with it on his motorbike
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Sparrow did a pretty good dressage test for him, he was very excited so he was a bit tense and rushed but Oli contained him very well. He ruined both the free walk and the medium walk by jogging which was a shame. They scored 37.6 which was a very fair score
Showjumping was pretty uneventful and they jumped a clear round
despite Sparrow's determination to jump the fastest round of the day
As they went clear showjumping Oli decided to jump the alternative at number 5 the corner. The alternative was an angled double of rails jumped the opposite way to the intro so it invloved doing a loop. They don't have any trouble making times so wasting time isn't an issue. It was definitely the right decision because they jumped a very confident clear round. The only slight problem was the time, the optimum was 5.06 and they were 4.03 oops
Oli had an unofficial warning because coming so much inside the time could be considered dangerous
and he's only 14.2hh
So at the end of the day they had 36.7 dressage, clear showjumping and clear xc with 24 time penalties! A lovely day was had by all, and it was only Oli and Sparrow's first affiliated event so we are very pleased.
I'm just uploading videos and photos of all 3 phases, will put them in the picture gallery when they're done.
Sparrow did a pretty good dressage test for him, he was very excited so he was a bit tense and rushed but Oli contained him very well. He ruined both the free walk and the medium walk by jogging which was a shame. They scored 37.6 which was a very fair score
Showjumping was pretty uneventful and they jumped a clear round
As they went clear showjumping Oli decided to jump the alternative at number 5 the corner. The alternative was an angled double of rails jumped the opposite way to the intro so it invloved doing a loop. They don't have any trouble making times so wasting time isn't an issue. It was definitely the right decision because they jumped a very confident clear round. The only slight problem was the time, the optimum was 5.06 and they were 4.03 oops
So at the end of the day they had 36.7 dressage, clear showjumping and clear xc with 24 time penalties! A lovely day was had by all, and it was only Oli and Sparrow's first affiliated event so we are very pleased.
I'm just uploading videos and photos of all 3 phases, will put them in the picture gallery when they're done.
