Team Chasing - how mad do you have to be??!

[SueAllen]

It looks like such fun and I think Neddy would be a star - he jumps very enthusiastically in company! but this pilot is such a wimp - I guess I'd not be a good team member even if I tried to get one together....anyone tell me more about it...Rosie??

 

[serena2005]

never been personally, but i do think you have to have balls to go! i thought about it.... but then saw some of the height of the fences! lol

i would say go... if you can get a group together that will just do it for the fun of it... im sure it would be a great experience.

and if your neddy is enthusiastic then he may boost your confidence!

 

[RunToEarth]

Hallo! Best fun you will ever have, the scariest part is walking the course sober, everything looks so much bigger from the ground. I really enjoy it, thrilling but you need quite a bit of guts, and a big saddleflask (most people opt for both)
Give it a try!!

 

[flyingfeet]

Helps if you are a nutter / have a deathwish / drunk (delete as applicable!)

Some of the open courses are far worse than Intermediate eventing IMHO....

 

[RunToEarth]

Oh shush CSJ, I have a big season planned and I was happy thinking they were hunting height...you are scaring me

 

[flyingfeet]

Well if hunting height is 4ft+ you'll be fine!!!!

Utter madness, I'm too old for solid fences!

 

[RunToEarth]

Nonsence, you are never too old!

 

[squiff]

Don't let them all scare you!

Have done a few with my friends and they are gr8, we even won the bicester cub hunters a few weeks ago on our 2nd attempt with this team. Fair does if you want to do the open class but all events have a cubhunters, over anything from 2ft 9 to 3ft 3, with often 2 classes, novice and int. OUr ponies/horses were pretty fit, but didn't go mad getting them ready.

If you enjoy pairs hunter trials it's pretty much the same but with a couple of other people added. The time's a bogey one and not against the clock..unless you go in the open. Jumps are strainght forward, mostly hedges, the odd timber fence, much easier than a hunter trial of the same height!! Have a go