lizzie_liz
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Where do I start, my week was non stop and I wasn't even riding and I am now exhausted.
Mum, dad and I drove the 10 hour trip on Tuesday and arrived at mums friends place where we were staying at about 6pm so not bad at all. My parents have just bought 1/3 acre of land up there in Kinloss where we are going to get a house built so we spent Wednesday/Thursday at the plot of the land and with the architect giving them ideas of what we want. We roughly marked out our plot of land so we had a better idea of what it was like. We discovered it has a view over the surrounding hills
Our plot of land with me in the picture
We also were able to give our 2 dogs a run on the beach, Scruff the little terriers only 2nd time on a beach
Friday came and it was up to Burgie for our first task of the weekend, mum was dressage stewarding and I was writing for the Novice Taster class. All I can say was that there was some entertaining tests, some of the earlier competitors looked like they had never done dressage before, some very tense and stiff horses. We almost gave a ) for someone not halting at the end but we were kind and were given a 2. I felt for someone as in the middle of her test a horse went galloping past with its saddle round its belly minus rider! Lesson 1: always check your girth.
The only bad thing with the dressage was the timing. The person who did the times gave us a 2 hour lunch break to come back and only judge 9 horses. The judges were quite annoyed especially as the one I was writing for had left at 6am.
On the Saturday mum and I were fence judging all day, so it was an 8.15 start for the briefing and ready for a 9.30 start. The weather by this time was starting to worsen. We were all hoping the rain was going to hold off. First class of the day was the Taster class and we were at the top of one of the hills at fence 15
No problems at this fence so made our job quite easy. But the fitness of horses was very varied, some looked very tired whilst others were flying over the fence.
We then moved on to the 1* class and were judging the log pile
Here they had to turn sharply right after a few strides to a pair of angled logs. Again no hiccups at our fence just a few horses giving it a good bang.
From here we moved down the hill to the following fence next to the water
A straight forward fence. We got a good view of the water and saw the last rider and horse of the day take a ducking!
By the end of the day by feet were soaked and I was shattered, we finished at about 5.30.
On the sunday I was stewarding for the novice dressage and the JON novice. I got to speak to the person who found me Honey as her daughter had a couple of horses in the novice section. I got soaked again as did my sheet with everyones time on! It was a lovely day, everyone is so friendly up there compared to some people down south and was good to catch up with people who mum and I only see once a year.
I had a fab weekend and can't wait for next year, hopefully the sun will come out and can remain dry for once.
Sorry for the long rambly post.
Mum, dad and I drove the 10 hour trip on Tuesday and arrived at mums friends place where we were staying at about 6pm so not bad at all. My parents have just bought 1/3 acre of land up there in Kinloss where we are going to get a house built so we spent Wednesday/Thursday at the plot of the land and with the architect giving them ideas of what we want. We roughly marked out our plot of land so we had a better idea of what it was like. We discovered it has a view over the surrounding hills
Our plot of land with me in the picture
We also were able to give our 2 dogs a run on the beach, Scruff the little terriers only 2nd time on a beach
Friday came and it was up to Burgie for our first task of the weekend, mum was dressage stewarding and I was writing for the Novice Taster class. All I can say was that there was some entertaining tests, some of the earlier competitors looked like they had never done dressage before, some very tense and stiff horses. We almost gave a ) for someone not halting at the end but we were kind and were given a 2. I felt for someone as in the middle of her test a horse went galloping past with its saddle round its belly minus rider! Lesson 1: always check your girth.
The only bad thing with the dressage was the timing. The person who did the times gave us a 2 hour lunch break to come back and only judge 9 horses. The judges were quite annoyed especially as the one I was writing for had left at 6am.
On the Saturday mum and I were fence judging all day, so it was an 8.15 start for the briefing and ready for a 9.30 start. The weather by this time was starting to worsen. We were all hoping the rain was going to hold off. First class of the day was the Taster class and we were at the top of one of the hills at fence 15
No problems at this fence so made our job quite easy. But the fitness of horses was very varied, some looked very tired whilst others were flying over the fence.
We then moved on to the 1* class and were judging the log pile
Here they had to turn sharply right after a few strides to a pair of angled logs. Again no hiccups at our fence just a few horses giving it a good bang.
From here we moved down the hill to the following fence next to the water
A straight forward fence. We got a good view of the water and saw the last rider and horse of the day take a ducking!
By the end of the day by feet were soaked and I was shattered, we finished at about 5.30.
On the sunday I was stewarding for the novice dressage and the JON novice. I got to speak to the person who found me Honey as her daughter had a couple of horses in the novice section. I got soaked again as did my sheet with everyones time on! It was a lovely day, everyone is so friendly up there compared to some people down south and was good to catch up with people who mum and I only see once a year.
I had a fab weekend and can't wait for next year, hopefully the sun will come out and can remain dry for once.
Sorry for the long rambly post.
