ISH_lover
Well-Known Member
I've had to wait until I received my purchased images before I could write this report 
A couple of Sundays ago seen Torin and I off to our first showing show of the season at Highfield. Torin has been hanging onto his winter coat like his life depends on it and he'd dropped a bit of muscle over the winter so I was a bit dubious about taking him, I'm rather glad I did listen to friends who told me I woulndnt be the only one in that situation.
We had entered the inhand and ridden coloured classes as this is what we plan to do at the Fife show. The 5:15am alarm that was set was met with a vicious glare when it went off in the morning
I appear to have one of the few coloured pony's who manages to stay spotless in his stable, albeit if it was because I buried him in clean shavings! Very chilled pony in our in hand class for 4th, top 3 were stunning! Short wait, then we tacked up and headed to warm up for the ridden class with a very hot horse! Spent loads of time chilling and taking it all in before cracking on and actually warming up, then we were called in. He felt on form, he sometimes gets a bit down on the forehand in the pelham but he felt much much better and really swinging along (and very keen) Judge pulled us into 1st place, made a silly blip in our show where I didnt set him up enough before I asked for a canter transition so he attempted to take the easy option and strike off on the wrong leg, quickly corrected and we were the only combination to show a lengthening of stride/'gallop'. Super thrilled to be pulled back into 2nd, esp since my friend and her lovely lovely pony were in the class too (she was pulled in 3rd) this meant we were called forward to the championship. Not to be our day though, T had become quite tired and fed up and abruptly switched off on me and was v full of it on the go round (cue some beautiful leaps into canter)
I was v emotional and proud, I've only done showing a handful of times and the highest I've ever been placed was 3rd, so to be placed 2nd, initially first, and then compete in my very first championship against some well seasoned combinations was just fantastic! I will admit to a few tears when we came out of our ridden class.
We have another practice run at the same venue, then the following week we are away to compete at Fife County show
The following images were purchased with permission to use on social media:
please dont take note of my dodgy clip lines in the last one, it was my very first clip
A couple of Sundays ago seen Torin and I off to our first showing show of the season at Highfield. Torin has been hanging onto his winter coat like his life depends on it and he'd dropped a bit of muscle over the winter so I was a bit dubious about taking him, I'm rather glad I did listen to friends who told me I woulndnt be the only one in that situation.
We had entered the inhand and ridden coloured classes as this is what we plan to do at the Fife show. The 5:15am alarm that was set was met with a vicious glare when it went off in the morning
I appear to have one of the few coloured pony's who manages to stay spotless in his stable, albeit if it was because I buried him in clean shavings! Very chilled pony in our in hand class for 4th, top 3 were stunning! Short wait, then we tacked up and headed to warm up for the ridden class with a very hot horse! Spent loads of time chilling and taking it all in before cracking on and actually warming up, then we were called in. He felt on form, he sometimes gets a bit down on the forehand in the pelham but he felt much much better and really swinging along (and very keen) Judge pulled us into 1st place, made a silly blip in our show where I didnt set him up enough before I asked for a canter transition so he attempted to take the easy option and strike off on the wrong leg, quickly corrected and we were the only combination to show a lengthening of stride/'gallop'. Super thrilled to be pulled back into 2nd, esp since my friend and her lovely lovely pony were in the class too (she was pulled in 3rd) this meant we were called forward to the championship. Not to be our day though, T had become quite tired and fed up and abruptly switched off on me and was v full of it on the go round (cue some beautiful leaps into canter) I was v emotional and proud, I've only done showing a handful of times and the highest I've ever been placed was 3rd, so to be placed 2nd, initially first, and then compete in my very first championship against some well seasoned combinations was just fantastic! I will admit to a few tears when we came out of our ridden class.
We have another practice run at the same venue, then the following week we are away to compete at Fife County show
The following images were purchased with permission to use on social media:
please dont take note of my dodgy clip lines in the last one, it was my very first clip
. Ah new leather one will be fine