I_A_P
Well-Known Member
Average day really.
Was not expecting too much in the dressage as was PN112 with serpentine and quite a bit of canter and then serpentine not great for the balance!! Got 7's for entries and finsih though LOL
Bit awkward in the warm up for a while then went quite nicely Ended on 37.1, best score in my class was 32.6 worst was mid 40's so not too bad but masses of room for improvement.
SJ- he is always wiggly at this venue for some perculier reason and then found he had a split mouth so took it easy...but true to form he went into wiggly mode and seemed a bit all over the place (altho on film he looks okay) unusally for him we got a few dud strides and had 2 down. to be honest it probably was partly due to his mouth and he kept pulling me down which made it hard work!
XC was all round the intro with a big PN trakehner and a few other PN fences and combinations so well up to height. Was really annoyed as wanted to practise my 450mpm speed but then found out it was 435mpm, added to this was the fact it was very slippy and boggy in places and all he wanted to do was put his nose on the floor and i lost a bit of steering at the end aiming for the finish (had to trot the last 100m
)(again probably due to his mouth) which didnt give the best feeling! So got 8 time pen. but most people did as it was hard to judge.
Ended up 15th out of 30 something people so not too bad really.
In summary dressage ok, sj out of sorts possibly due to mouth and xc very bold and keen but sore mouth/him pulling down and bad going slowed us down!)
Might put some stills up later but don't really have very good footage apart from of dressage!!
Was not expecting too much in the dressage as was PN112 with serpentine and quite a bit of canter and then serpentine not great for the balance!! Got 7's for entries and finsih though LOL
Bit awkward in the warm up for a while then went quite nicely Ended on 37.1, best score in my class was 32.6 worst was mid 40's so not too bad but masses of room for improvement.
SJ- he is always wiggly at this venue for some perculier reason and then found he had a split mouth so took it easy...but true to form he went into wiggly mode and seemed a bit all over the place (altho on film he looks okay) unusally for him we got a few dud strides and had 2 down. to be honest it probably was partly due to his mouth and he kept pulling me down which made it hard work!
XC was all round the intro with a big PN trakehner and a few other PN fences and combinations so well up to height. Was really annoyed as wanted to practise my 450mpm speed but then found out it was 435mpm, added to this was the fact it was very slippy and boggy in places and all he wanted to do was put his nose on the floor and i lost a bit of steering at the end aiming for the finish (had to trot the last 100m
Ended up 15th out of 30 something people so not too bad really.
In summary dressage ok, sj out of sorts possibly due to mouth and xc very bold and keen but sore mouth/him pulling down and bad going slowed us down!)
Might put some stills up later but don't really have very good footage apart from of dressage!!
