PaddyMonty
Well-Known Member
The day started as the alarm clock went off at 3.30am.
Ed has a slight shiver and is better if he has a couple of hours in the field to stretch before a comp. Turned him out at 5am after feeding entire yard tehn in to work to make sure all systems are working properly (IT manager).
Back to the yard at 6.15am, load up and set off at 7am
Arrive at 8.10 to a deserted car park. got him in the warm up before anyone arrived. A bit spooky going in but bless him he never attempted to say no. Warmed up well and went clear in the 85cm despite almost missing a fence and realising as i was abou 5 feet from passing it and had to stop and jump from a very silly angle. We ended up 5th which surprised me as we just hacked round. The intention being to give him a no stress introduction to indoor SJ.
Then we waited and waited and waited.
Warm up for the 1mtr was great. he knew why he was there now and was really up for it. Flying even the stupidly high warm up fences like they were twigs.
Fence 1 fine, fence 2 he just never took off with his back legs (very unlike him) so 4 faults there. It looks from the video that he was gawping at something in the seating area.
Rest of the course was super including the tight 180 cut inside to oxer in the timmed section. Just clipped the planks on a related (rider error) which I got a bo*&^king from my pupil for but still very pleased with him.
Then more waiting and waiting. Eventually got to jump the 1.10 at 6.40pm. By that time he had had enough and I had lost the will to live (remember what time we started the day).
He stopped twice in the warm up due totally to rider faffing about and burying him in the fence although he wasn;t exactly helping me out either. Should have withdrawn then but no I gave ot a go. Fence 1 sticky, fence 2 rolled a pole, fence 3 crashed and fence 4 we pretty much went straight through. At this point I came to my senses and decided both of us (mainly me) shouldn't be in there and retired.
All in all though still pleased with the day. The 1.10 was purely old age on the riders part catching up.
One of my pupils was there. She won the 1.00 open was 14th in disco with her green eventer and got the same horse round the newcommers with just a couple of poles.
Obviously I am now far better suited to training than riding. Perhaps I should hand the ride over to her and just focus on training them both. Yeah like thats ever gonna happen
Finally got back to yard at 8.15pm and home at just gone 9.
At least next time I wont have to get there so early now he's happy indoors.
Today I am mostly knackerd
Ed has a slight shiver and is better if he has a couple of hours in the field to stretch before a comp. Turned him out at 5am after feeding entire yard tehn in to work to make sure all systems are working properly (IT manager).
Back to the yard at 6.15am, load up and set off at 7am
Arrive at 8.10 to a deserted car park. got him in the warm up before anyone arrived. A bit spooky going in but bless him he never attempted to say no. Warmed up well and went clear in the 85cm despite almost missing a fence and realising as i was abou 5 feet from passing it and had to stop and jump from a very silly angle. We ended up 5th which surprised me as we just hacked round. The intention being to give him a no stress introduction to indoor SJ.
Then we waited and waited and waited.
Warm up for the 1mtr was great. he knew why he was there now and was really up for it. Flying even the stupidly high warm up fences like they were twigs.
Fence 1 fine, fence 2 he just never took off with his back legs (very unlike him) so 4 faults there. It looks from the video that he was gawping at something in the seating area.
Rest of the course was super including the tight 180 cut inside to oxer in the timmed section. Just clipped the planks on a related (rider error) which I got a bo*&^king from my pupil for but still very pleased with him.
Then more waiting and waiting. Eventually got to jump the 1.10 at 6.40pm. By that time he had had enough and I had lost the will to live (remember what time we started the day).
He stopped twice in the warm up due totally to rider faffing about and burying him in the fence although he wasn;t exactly helping me out either. Should have withdrawn then but no I gave ot a go. Fence 1 sticky, fence 2 rolled a pole, fence 3 crashed and fence 4 we pretty much went straight through. At this point I came to my senses and decided both of us (mainly me) shouldn't be in there and retired.
All in all though still pleased with the day. The 1.10 was purely old age on the riders part catching up.
One of my pupils was there. She won the 1.00 open was 14th in disco with her green eventer and got the same horse round the newcommers with just a couple of poles.
Obviously I am now far better suited to training than riding. Perhaps I should hand the ride over to her and just focus on training them both. Yeah like thats ever gonna happen
Finally got back to yard at 8.15pm and home at just gone 9.
At least next time I wont have to get there so early now he's happy indoors.
Today I am mostly knackerd
