Hollyhorse
Well-Known Member
Hi, ok here's my situation! Advice needed pls
I have a 5 rising 6 year old ISH who I bought feb 07 and took to 2 intros and 4 pre-novices last summer (pleasing results, got better and better). I'm at university and luckily have him at a livery yard while I'm at uni, but can't travel anywhere. Fortunately there are competitions held at the yard and so since september I've been doing BSJA competitions 2 or 3 times a month (BN, Disc, 1.05) and BD competitions (Nov/Elem) once a month. He's been going really well, jumping double clears, usually winning/placed, so am really confident that his SJing and dressage are more than ready for the BE season.
I have a month holiday at easter when I take him home and then I come back to uni until I graduate in June. What I can't decide is whether to affiliate him for the whole year and do 1 or 2 intros during my easter holiday (Belmont Park and Larkhill) or to affiliate for half a yr n compete him when I get back in the summer. If I do the first option then I will only have a few wks at home before the first comp to do some XC schooling and hope he remembers! If I do the latter option then I will have about a month to do some XC schooling before I can compete (think half yr registration starts in july?).
I'd preferably like to get him doing something in easter because then I can go straight into pre-novices when I go home for the summer because otherwise by the time I go home I've missed half the season! But then the last thing I want to do is to enter an intro to find that when I go XC schooling just before that he's forgotten all about it and needs several sessions and I haven't got time!
Any thoughts?
Any advice appreciated!
I have a 5 rising 6 year old ISH who I bought feb 07 and took to 2 intros and 4 pre-novices last summer (pleasing results, got better and better). I'm at university and luckily have him at a livery yard while I'm at uni, but can't travel anywhere. Fortunately there are competitions held at the yard and so since september I've been doing BSJA competitions 2 or 3 times a month (BN, Disc, 1.05) and BD competitions (Nov/Elem) once a month. He's been going really well, jumping double clears, usually winning/placed, so am really confident that his SJing and dressage are more than ready for the BE season.
I have a month holiday at easter when I take him home and then I come back to uni until I graduate in June. What I can't decide is whether to affiliate him for the whole year and do 1 or 2 intros during my easter holiday (Belmont Park and Larkhill) or to affiliate for half a yr n compete him when I get back in the summer. If I do the first option then I will only have a few wks at home before the first comp to do some XC schooling and hope he remembers! If I do the latter option then I will have about a month to do some XC schooling before I can compete (think half yr registration starts in july?).
I'd preferably like to get him doing something in easter because then I can go straight into pre-novices when I go home for the summer because otherwise by the time I go home I've missed half the season! But then the last thing I want to do is to enter an intro to find that when I go XC schooling just before that he's forgotten all about it and needs several sessions and I haven't got time!
Any thoughts?
