Northallerton BE90 Report:)and some advice from all you eventers out there!

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Hey everyone dont usually post reports but seen as last weekend was fairly sucessfull i thought id post, bit of background info my first season BE and same for Barnanby the horse. I bought Barnaby 8 months ago from a young girl who unfortunatly he had scared to death by regualrly going up vertical-we seem to have sorted this. After an unsucessfull oasby B decided he would revert back to old tricks where we finished on 133 a bit dissapointed but at least we completed we were determined to get slightly less this time!
Very early start for us on saturday morning up at 4am and left yard at 5.30am after sorting various animals so we could go for the day cue a grumpy OH, B felt good in the warm up a bit tense but all four legs we staying on the ground! Went a did a very nice test to get 34.5 which left us 4th after dressage.
Onto sj which is our worst phase- im always a nervous wreck, have being practcing at home and shows at getting into a rythem and slowing everything down. Nice corse fairly too starightforward i thought- he tends to be better the bigger more complicated the course, went okay had 2 down but better rythem ect.
Had walked xc night before but had 3 hours between sj and xc so went for another quick look round nothing i didnt like so was feeling pretty positive, setting off xc on 42.5 B was super and flew round no problems with plenty of fuel left in the tank at the end, taking a stride out at the last and giving it a good foot! Finished on 42.5 no time penleties:) and i think we are starting to make progress. Would have beenn 4 th without the poles finished 14th which i didnt think was too bad winner of section on 28. Have got some pics which i will post later as i need to learn how to use photobucket!
Enough rambling about the weekend now for your advice B seems to be finiding the jumping all a bit too easy and taking no notice of the fences, OH has suggested i do one more 90 and then move up to 100, below is my plan for the rest of the season where do you think it would be sensible to move up?

RICHMOND 14/15th MAY
BISHOP BURTON 28th MAY
BISHOP BURTON 11th JUNE RC Qualifier
SKIPTON 18th/19th JUNE
ELAND LODGE 2/3 JULY
SKIPTON 6/7th AUGUST
BECKWITHSHAW 13/14th AUGUST
RICHMOND 20th/21st AUGUST
KELSALL HILL 24/25th SEMPTEMBER
ASKHAM BRYAN 9th OCTOBER

Also dont want to do 3 consecutive weeks in August which 2 out of those three would you pick?
Thanks all:)
 
No advice on the courses (wrong part of the country for us) but well done on the improvement. Sounds as if B is beginning to enjoy it too and that's half the battle.
 
Id definitely do Richmond then probably Beckwithshaw! Skipton is a course that you either love or hate and a lot of people who event around here dont seem too keen on Skipton!
 
horsey4 said:
Id definitely do Richmond then probably Beckwithshaw! Skipton is a course that you either love or hate and a lot of people who event around here dont seem too keen on Skipton!
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Skipton was quite technical last year but it wasn't up to height imo so it depends on your horses strengths, the SJing uses the lighter poles as well and dressage layout isn't great but I would recommend it over other events in the area. Out of interest are you commenting on Skipton last year or in previous years before it was redesigned?
 
Thanks for all your replies so far:) i have already entered richmond BE90 as i wanted to have at least one more run at this level, i think will stay at 90 for bishop and skipton, so it might be beckwithsaw for BE100? or has anyone got any idea what eland lodge BE100 is like?
Sally-ff: ground was hard but what i felt to be ride able i walked the corse on the friday night and saw at least 8 tractors very busy working as hard as possible on the ground and watering! There was a good covering of grass around 80% of the corse but in the wood it was a little bit stoney luckily my horse isnt too bothered by ground either soft or hard, if your thinking about the unafillaited in a few weeks time i think you should be okay- its n ot a long long xc corse and hopefully theres ment to be a bit of rain at the end of week!
 
OP - great run. Sounds like a big improvement.

re. Northallerton ground - I dressaged on a surface so unsure about that, the SJing and XC warm ups were rock hard, the SJing ring was better. The first field of the XC was hard, the woods stony but OK and the far field (75% of the course) was reasonable. However this field belongs to a different landowner and they don't often have the use of it for non-BE events.

re. events - Beckwithshaw is a tricky enough PN. I'm not a Skipton fan, but haven't been in a year or two. Eland is nice, as is Bishop - entries still open if you're feeling brave!
 
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