Eventrider92
Well-Known Member
As a few of you gave me some advice for my first BE and asked for a report in return here it is ....
Arrived early ( or so I thought ) in the pouring pouring rain ! I was almost last on to go round on the day ! Went off and got my number etc then came back and got my horse ready , had trouble getting the rubber stud blocks out but finally got there with 15 mins before my dressage !!! Huge rush and we literally had two mins warm up but we came away with a score of 38.5 which I was very pleased with considering he takes a while to work nicely when warming up .
Then onto showjumping , not so rushed now ! Although didn't get a chance to walk the course so watched a few riders go round: probably lucky I didn't walk it as some of the fences were huge but didn't look so big once I was on board ! Had a good amount of time to warm up , popped a few jumps and then we were in .
He jumped his best round yet ! Almost got catapulted out of the saddle going over one of the big spreads ( found his wings at last !) and jumped a lovely clear round.
Then only half an hour until XC, rushed back to trailer , changed kit and off to the warm up , popped the XC warm up fence a few times then we were called in ready to go ...
He was brilliant despite the going being pretty rough by now we took it at a good pace , ended up clear but with 12 time faults .
Overall I was very very happy we came 18th out of 30 in our section.
Here's the video of our day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51mS66L6xd4
Arrived early ( or so I thought ) in the pouring pouring rain ! I was almost last on to go round on the day ! Went off and got my number etc then came back and got my horse ready , had trouble getting the rubber stud blocks out but finally got there with 15 mins before my dressage !!! Huge rush and we literally had two mins warm up but we came away with a score of 38.5 which I was very pleased with considering he takes a while to work nicely when warming up .
Then onto showjumping , not so rushed now ! Although didn't get a chance to walk the course so watched a few riders go round: probably lucky I didn't walk it as some of the fences were huge but didn't look so big once I was on board ! Had a good amount of time to warm up , popped a few jumps and then we were in .
He jumped his best round yet ! Almost got catapulted out of the saddle going over one of the big spreads ( found his wings at last !) and jumped a lovely clear round.
Then only half an hour until XC, rushed back to trailer , changed kit and off to the warm up , popped the XC warm up fence a few times then we were called in ready to go ...
He was brilliant despite the going being pretty rough by now we took it at a good pace , ended up clear but with 12 time faults .
Overall I was very very happy we came 18th out of 30 in our section.
Here's the video of our day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51mS66L6xd4
