Oh balls.... Blewbury report!

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So took baby horse to Blewbury because it was the last chance to qualify for the 1m blue chip

However I crashed and burned... ! Firstly OMG what a change from Summerhouse and Hartpury. More health and safety hazards than you could shake a stick at!

Then in warm up which was full of screechy teenagers glued to their mobiles, one of said bottle blonde screechy teenagers pulls straight accross the jump and queue us emergency braking and then ploughing the jump nearly falling over en route.

From there he was backing off everything and wasn't entirely happy in the dingey arena which only had 2 lines of the 4 lights switched on. The darkest arena I've ever been in
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Ploughed through first jump and then jumped the rest albeit with some cat leaping.

Second class I got him jumping outside a bit better when the teenagers rushed off (probably to brush hair and top up mobiles) .

However second class I froze between a related distance and he ploughed through another fence. I know 4 faults in each class isn't bad, but it wasn't a rolled pole, more total failure and jump destruction!

So question is should I keep taking him to venues like this so he learns to jump in all conditions or keep to my beloved venues???
 
Oh and continuing my doppleganger experiences - I accused someone of being DieselDog's sister. Well she was talking about not being there before and was asked if her sister would ever sell Dolly..... so close, so far!!!
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What a shame
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I know it is useful for our horses to jump in every type of situation but I avoid venues that I hate simply because I don't enjoy it and this sport is too expensive for me to have a horrible day out and spend the whole time silently seething at all the rude and ignorant people around me. Stick to the nice venues and the nice people
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Blewbury indoors is a dive, you have to be very very very desperate to waste the diesel money going there!
 
Well I know that now! !!!!

The jumps were also so squished in that in the BN (I didn't enter) you only had 3 to 4 possible canter strides before the first jump. You couldn't do a nice circle or develop a rythm, not a good venue for babies at all!
 
As Blewbury is our 'local' we tolerated it until we turned up to do a BD dressage event and the warm up had been hired out to a string of racehorses
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so no warm up, very excited horses and no apology. Never been back
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Its a shame its like that, cos there far friendlier than sodding Addington!
Outdoors is good there, nice spongey grass
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Ive jumped there a few times on my young horse and he copes but I wouldnt go there unless I really HAD too.
 
Was planning some sort of sj outing with Kizzy, the spookiest pony in the entire universe, thought Blewbury might be low key & friendly, but now I've read your report, think I'll pass!!
 
im with you on that! i had an awful day at blewbury too. it was my one and only try at blue chip qual, due to not being able to get transport and not having horse long.
the baby horse i took, it was her first show, and the first fence in the Bn was so spokky she just wont jump it.. tho i have to admit, the judges were very nice to let me try the first fence 3 times then the second fence (which was a small upright against the wall) 3 times, and letting my mum run in and stick the top pole down, which i thought was very sympathetic of them, as it was obvious it was all too much for the baby.
then i proceeded to have two down in the open for my warm up class and a fence in the disc on my main horse.
it seems such a waste!
and the warm ups are horrible! it was my first time there for 15 years. and it hasnt changed! im not going back there in a hurry.

well done tho! you did better than me!
what did your horse look like? i may have seen ya!
 
hehe my baby horse i was riding in the BN looks exactly like your horse!! hehe
i had a dark brown/black mare with brown saddlecloth and ears on in the open and disc qual.
 
Can't offer any advice on the venue (apart than to say we have one v similar here and I very rarely go), but isn't your horse GORGEOUS. Fingers crossed he never goes boring white!!

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Have you got any pictures of their mum? It must be nice to breed a horse that you then can actually enjoy. That is what puts me off, that I'll end up with something I don't like at the end of it all.
 
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