flyingfeet
Well-Known Member
So I couldn't find any BSJA on nearby and went for the OTECC at Hartpury. I turned up at 12pm as requested on the website and then realise I have 2 hours to kill! Its just like BSJA then!
I was expecting the large outdoor or indoor and was pretty disappointed they had squeezed into the small indoor next to the usual indoor warm up.
They had squished a course of 17 jumping efforts into the tiny arena, but to be fair only 2 jumps were 10ft wide with the rest being 6ft or less!
So fat boy thin was jumping very well in the warm up, but totally threw his toys out of the pram at these very odd jumps, so he knocked down fences 1, 2 had a hissy fit at a narrow oxer and jammed the brakes on, demolished a gatlin gun style x-country jump that was actually quite hard to get 4 faults on (not for us!) and also knocked down a little gate. So if you are counting that was 20 faults, plus we were slow so another 10 time faults!
So I was highly embarassed and ended up with a very foamy upset horse who thought this was just plain weird.
The turns on the course were horrible, and impossible to do in a rythm on a horse. Fortunately I'd been throwing him around my little arena jumping, so wasn't too much of a problem for us (well bar all the mistakes!), but I imagine a 17hh horse would really struggle.
So apparently adults are rare in OTECC, and we still came 4th.... out of 6 entries, one WD and the other got eliminated so that will be last place then!
So I ended up with an OTECC rossette, which is apparently all you get for a £18 entry fee.
So its expensive compared to BSJA (although no membership), but great to have the opportunity to demolish some jump for joy jumps!
I was muttering to fat boy about how embarassing he was, so as punishment he got his bottom washed and vacuumed in public by by anivac!
I was expecting the large outdoor or indoor and was pretty disappointed they had squeezed into the small indoor next to the usual indoor warm up.
They had squished a course of 17 jumping efforts into the tiny arena, but to be fair only 2 jumps were 10ft wide with the rest being 6ft or less!
So fat boy thin was jumping very well in the warm up, but totally threw his toys out of the pram at these very odd jumps, so he knocked down fences 1, 2 had a hissy fit at a narrow oxer and jammed the brakes on, demolished a gatlin gun style x-country jump that was actually quite hard to get 4 faults on (not for us!) and also knocked down a little gate. So if you are counting that was 20 faults, plus we were slow so another 10 time faults!
So I was highly embarassed and ended up with a very foamy upset horse who thought this was just plain weird.
The turns on the course were horrible, and impossible to do in a rythm on a horse. Fortunately I'd been throwing him around my little arena jumping, so wasn't too much of a problem for us (well bar all the mistakes!), but I imagine a 17hh horse would really struggle.
So apparently adults are rare in OTECC, and we still came 4th.... out of 6 entries, one WD and the other got eliminated so that will be last place then!
So I ended up with an OTECC rossette, which is apparently all you get for a £18 entry fee.
So its expensive compared to BSJA (although no membership), but great to have the opportunity to demolish some jump for joy jumps!
I was muttering to fat boy about how embarassing he was, so as punishment he got his bottom washed and vacuumed in public by by anivac!
