nikkimariet
Well-Known Member
Hopped, skipped and jumped up the road to Brooksby EC today! Thought this was a fab opportunity to warm him up at home, put him away let him eat etc, then arrive at venue.
Took full advantage of having a warm up to myself at home, got him soft supple and really taking me forward
Warm up:
Trot:
Medium:
Canter:
Counter canter:
Crouching tiger Hugo (who distracted PS lots
):
Plan seems to have worked As he entered the warm up chilled as a bean! Space limited at Brooksby; so worked on getting him stepping under and keeping the shoulder up through the corners (once we had stopped jumping the light strips on the floor!!) and keeping the tempo consistent.
Floated round P13; free walk really getting there - no chomping and starting to show a 'march' Trot/canter transitions were nice and neat, no ad libbing of circles lol and final halt square. Huge pats for pony and then the judge called me over.....
..... She loved him - mentioned how nice he was, asked how old/background. A *very* shocked face when I said he's 8 but came out of racing last October!
Hopped back on, felt just like he did at home - was really tuned in and had found that balance of sharp/responsive
Went off to ride P14 already smiling - everything felt easy, and solid, like he had been doing this years So chuffed with my pocket rocket pony! Judge called me over for some question time again, said she thought he would go far with dressage and was lovely to watch *adds judge to favourites list*
Trot:
Canter:
Jumping the light strips:
Test pics:
Put Fig back on the lorry, left him nomming and looking ever so pleased with himself! Turns out I had won both classes, the first with 77.5% (out of 6) and the second with 78.75% (out of 5). Literally jumped with joy Soooooo....as both classes were qualifiers, this means that Team Sparkle are headed to the Regionals this summer 
Cannot wait.
The only thing I'm disappointed with is my hideous position, courtesy of awful painful pelvis today
Could barely sit at all and felt like a bag of rusty spanners! Luckily off to the chiro next week for a good creak and clunk!
I have another outing at Prelim for Fig planned - but will move myself to the non qualifying section as I've had my turn now! - and then we will try our hand at 1 x Prelim and 1 x Novice
Sunday lunch with all the trimmings on offer!
Took full advantage of having a warm up to myself at home, got him soft supple and really taking me forward
Warm up:
Trot:
Medium:
Canter:
Counter canter:
Crouching tiger Hugo (who distracted PS lots
):
Plan seems to have worked
As he entered the warm up chilled as a bean! Space limited at Brooksby; so worked on getting him stepping under and keeping the shoulder up through the corners (once we had stopped jumping the light strips on the floor!!) and keeping the tempo consistent. Floated round P13; free walk really getting there - no chomping and starting to show a 'march'
Trot/canter transitions were nice and neat, no ad libbing of circles lol and final halt square. Huge pats for pony and then the judge called me over.......... She loved him - mentioned how nice he was, asked how old/background. A *very* shocked face when I said he's 8 but came out of racing last October!Hopped back on, felt just like he did at home - was really tuned in and had found that balance of sharp/responsive
Went off to ride P14 already smiling - everything felt easy, and solid, like he had been doing this years So chuffed with my pocket rocket pony! Judge called me over for some question time again, said she thought he would go far with dressage and was lovely to watch *adds judge to favourites list*Trot:
Canter:
Jumping the light strips:
Test pics:
Put Fig back on the lorry, left him nomming and looking ever so pleased with himself! Turns out I had won both classes, the first with 77.5% (out of 6) and the second with 78.75% (out of 5). Literally jumped with joy
Soooooo....as both classes were qualifiers, this means that Team Sparkle are headed to the Regionals this summer Cannot wait.The only thing I'm disappointed with is my hideous position, courtesy of awful painful pelvis today
Could barely sit at all and felt like a bag of rusty spanners! Luckily off to the chiro next week for a good creak and clunk!I have another outing at Prelim for Fig planned - but will move myself to the non qualifying section as I've had my turn now! - and then we will try our hand at 1 x Prelim and 1 x Novice
Sunday lunch with all the trimmings on offer!
