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Been invited to a viewing trial for this years European Team CIC** Championships - what used to be called Rural Riders. The event is in September in Sweden which would fantastic place to go and compete.

Got to go to Stow on the Wold in Feb for the trial. Probably won't get any further than the trial but really excited to have got this far. They are looking particularly for better dressage horses and as that is our weakest point it could go against us. They are shortlisting 12 and a further 12 reserves.

The dressage is important as the unique feature of this is event is a quadrill test with the full team of 4. Should be good fun and a good insite into how these things work. Fingers crossed!
 
OMG go you!!!!!!! i dont know how your still alive, i would have died by now!!!! good luck and is there a better way to start the year
 
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Win the lottery?

Seriously a big boost although I'd better try and get some work into her before then.
 
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ummm? nearly but it would have to be over 5 million
 
Wow what a fantastic start to the year, all the very best of luck keep us updated, I would just die from being asked, bet you are fit to burst
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Fantastic news, well done! Make sure your RC know, they may help you out quite a lot. Don't be so quick to write yourself off, if Dicky Waygood is being as tough as when I did it in the jumping section only a few of you wll be left standing anyway, whatever they say about the dressage! And I think it's a team of 6 doing the test, not 4...
 
Um, get drunk the first night! (sorry, I mean "demonstrate team spirit"
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). Then I think we rode the next day, first on the flat in two or three large groups. We weren't asked to work alongside each other or in a ride, but obviously they were able to pick up on how the horses interacted etc. We were all asked to show the more technical movements in the test which at the time were turn on the haunches, travers and countercanter. Then the jumping was probably the toughest I have done. We started working with a related distance and had to show it on 4,5 and 6 strides. Then we built up to a course of a fairly decent size (about 115 all the way), over relateds, turns back to a really wide corner, skinnies etc, and this was all indoors... It was good fun!

ETS: If you know/see Jade L around she did it on two horses the same year I did it, you could ask her too.
 
Well done - what great news. Best of luck for it and keep us posted!
 
well done,
When it goes well it looks beautiful, if it goes wrong can look like a rodeo!!!
All i know it's very technical and tactical stuff but good luck, lots of training.
I thought it was team of six?? and what height do you jump??
 
How exciting!!! and well done. See people do lnow who is doing well. A horse I sold did this one year. He did have fab dressage.
 
You are right it is a team of 6. Height is CIC** which I think is 1.20 XC and upto 1.25 SJ. We were double clear at Gatcombe last year in their CIC** so I know she has the jump and the ability. The dressage is improving fast!
 
The real trouble with the dressage for this is the team ride, i am sure Tigers Eye will confirm that! I went with the Brit team the year it was at hartpury and the germans were so far in front after that bit ther was no chance of catching them even with the coaching of the captain. I believe he is still head trainer for this so it will be worht it for the lessons! Good luck though it is really good fun even for the grooms!
 
The thing is on the continent riding in formation is the norm. In Belgian pony clubs and riding clubs you are not allowed to compete in any discipline unless you train every week with the club for these rides, where you do "achtal" - dressage in a 60x20 with 8 of you. At the lowest levels it is of prelim difficulty, although obviously transitions have to be much more precise, and at the highest includes demi voltes, counter canter, half pass, rein back, turn on the haunches, extentions and so on. I will try to find some photos. Height will be 115 for the cross country.
 
It is an interesting concept and one as you say we just don't do over here. Trying to keep a even one horses length at medium canter will be hard enough!
 
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