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Welcome to another chapter in our eventing story! This time we trekked off to Shelford Manor!

It was a lovely day spent in the Nottinghamshire country side :D I've never been before, lovely venue and really well run event!

Beanz decided dressage was alright today.... lately he has thought otherwise!! but he produced what I thought was a lovely soft and willing test.... unfortunately the judge didn't agree and we scored a 37.5, it did leave us in the top ten so I guess she was just marking harshly!

Onto the dreaded sj, I really need to start enjoying this phase more.... maybe one day!! Short of it we clearly still had a case of 4 faultyitus from Friday night - we went out sj in the evening and we manned up big stylie and jumped our first ever 90 course!!! just had one down in each round! Anywho back to shelford; so just the one down to add to our dressage score! It's a pesky pole but on a whole the round felt so much better, more flowing and generally we were together as a partnership!

Now the fun part!! :D I do love xc on this horse he just eats it up, unfortunately we did pick up 20 penalties BUT (and I'm not making excuses!) it wasn't a naughty stop it was a genuine baby/green hesitation, the fence in question was causing carnage in the 80 and the 90 it was a fairly decent size drop into a dark wooded area.... a question Beanz has never been asked before, he is such a dude though and did go first time he just needed a split second longer to figure out what was being asked so super proud of him for tackling it head on in a competition environment!! I do sometimes forget he is still inexperienced and just needs to gain mileage under his belt :D

So I guess on paper it sounds like a crap day but it wasn't at all!! I got to spend it in the sun doing what I love with an awesome little pony who always tries his heart out for me what more can I ask for?! :D

Sadly no pictures as i was flying solo and the pros weren't that great so for once i didnt spend any money!!

But i can add a link in to our xc video from Keysoe a few weeks back, i really couldnt resist getting it!! Enjoy!

https://www.an-eventful-life.com.au/ride/alex-belshaw-bean-machine-keysoe-2017-1

Next stop for us is Stratford Hills :D
 
Well done! It sounds like a great day all round. I really like Shelford but am jealous of the weather you had - it's been torrential rain the two times I've competed there.
 
I visited Shelford on Monday just for a watch and know exactly what you mean about that drop, it was very much plunged into darkness! Glad you had a good time :)
 
Cazzah said:
Well done! It sounds like a great day all round. I really like Shelford but am jealous of the weather you had - it's been torrential rain the two times I've competed there.
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The weather was very good!! It's a lovely event!

Durhamchance said:
I visited Shelford on Monday just for a watch and know exactly what you mean about that drop, it was very much plunged into darkness! Glad you had a good time :)
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I'm from the fens so we don't have many we can practise but I was super pleased with his attitude towards it!! It's definitely an event I shall aim to go back too!
 
Well done! The round at Keysoe was lovely to watch.

I've just done my first ever ODE on my boy (his first competitive xc too!), just an unaffiliated 70cm, and loved it. I'm building up the nerve to do an 80 now and find that some days I watch videos and thing 'yes, I can do that!' and other days it looks huge! We need to get over a new-found ditch phobia before doing any more competitions though, I suspect the phobia is mine more than Pocholo's ;)
 
Sounds like a fantastic outing on paper AND in your report. Well done!

ETA I love that vid, they do really good vids don't they? What did you think of Keysoe? Am contemplating whether to enter a BE80 there but was told xc is bold and sj also, with no ground lines. But the xc looks ok (from this side of my pc haha).
 
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j1ffy said:
Well done! The round at Keysoe was lovely to watch.

I've just done my first ever ODE on my boy (his first competitive xc too!), just an unaffiliated 70cm, and loved it. I'm building up the nerve to do an 80 now and find that some days I watch videos and thing 'yes, I can do that!' and other days it looks huge! We need to get over a new-found ditch phobia before doing any more competitions though, I suspect the phobia is mine more than Pocholo's ;)
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Thank you! Best of luck for your event I'm sure you'll be great!

Bernster said:
Sounds like a fantastic outing on paper AND in your report. Well done!

ETA I love that vid, they do really good vids don't they? What did you think of Keysoe? Am contemplating whether to enter a BE80 there but was told xc is bold and sj also, with no ground lines. But the xc looks ok (from this side of my pc haha).
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The videos are great I said I wouldn't buy every one but I'm not sure I can stick to that!!

I've competed at keysoe quite a lot and in terms of boldness xc i would say it's mid level! I did horseheath this year and that was big and bold I found keysoe to be a good mix of 80 fences and the odd ones we shared with the 90 so it was a good test :) the sj is nice too as the arena is lovely and big, if you search bear and beanz on you tube there should be some footage of the BE sj on there :)
 
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