Tempi
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I think i can vouch for the whole team and say that we had a fab weekend - the weather was gorgeous (if a little hot at times!!) and i think everyone really enjoyed themselves!!
Got up bright and early saturday morning, plaited and scrubbed and arrived at Sparsholt for 9am. Lucy and I were on at 10am and 10:15, Lucy was our Prelim rider and a friend from my yard, and i was doing the Novices.
Needless to say Archie turned back to his monster ways and was a total arse in the first test, however along with some rather suspect judging (!) we managed to still come 6th, altho our % was crap, the winner only got 61%, plus it was only the warmup test. Then he did me proud in the Team test and altho he still did a couple of huge spooks he came 2nd on 64.56%
I wont go through everyones as il be here all day, but Lucy did a fab little test, came 2nd with 68% and got best U16, then in the Team test she came 2nd again with 67%.
Madam_Max did two lovely tests on the saturday and came 6th (i think!) and 3rd in the Team test (she was doing the other set of Novice tests). Smoothly_Done (who did the elementaries) came 7th in both the team and the warmup tests - due to some idiot *runs off and hides in shame* calling the wrong test!!!! - Luckily it was only the warmup one
We bedded them all down in their stables for the night, and checked and our team was lying joint 2nd over night
Got up early saturday morning to feed, plait up and muck out. Archie was nice and chilled as usual!! (he was falling asleep when i was plaiting him up!)
Did our first test and he was a STAR!! Got 68.92% and came 2nd again - however the judge was leader and trainer to the team that won my class - slightly suspicious if you ask me......Then the last test for him was indoors, it was BOILING hot and he was exhausted, i literally had to boot him around! They didnt hand out results until te end of the day to keep everyone in suspense as to the Team placings! But we got 64% and came 2nd - again!!!!
Then Lucy got 67% and 3rd and then 80.10%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and 3rd again!!!!! So she was chuffed to bits!
M_M got 6th in both hers, i think! and S_D unfortunately got eliminated in the first test as someone forgot to take her overreach boots off - not me for once!! And the judge didnt realise until halfway through the test and she had to be eliminated unfortuately
But she came 7th in the Team test which was good!
At 4:30 we all had to gather, dressed in our hats/jods, for the prizegiving. They started off by giving out the prizes for the best individuals at each level - so this was the top combinations of all 4 tests we'd done at each level.
Lucy came 4th over all which she was chuffed to bits about!
Then Archie monster and i only went and won the individual section (as we had the highest placings overall because of his 3 2nds and 6th)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Im SO pleased with him!! He was a total star, even tho our first test was a bit hit and miss!!
And to make it even better, our team came 2nd!!!!!
So i just want to say a HUGE thank you to everyone for coming, and i hope you all enjoyed it! Also thanx to everyone who came and supported us, it was a fab weekend
And i hope you aren't all too sunburnt
oh, and Ben_and_Jerrys - i hope your horse is ok after its accident
Got up bright and early saturday morning, plaited and scrubbed and arrived at Sparsholt for 9am. Lucy and I were on at 10am and 10:15, Lucy was our Prelim rider and a friend from my yard, and i was doing the Novices.
Needless to say Archie turned back to his monster ways and was a total arse in the first test, however along with some rather suspect judging (!) we managed to still come 6th, altho our % was crap, the winner only got 61%, plus it was only the warmup test. Then he did me proud in the Team test and altho he still did a couple of huge spooks he came 2nd on 64.56%
I wont go through everyones as il be here all day, but Lucy did a fab little test, came 2nd with 68% and got best U16, then in the Team test she came 2nd again with 67%.
Madam_Max did two lovely tests on the saturday and came 6th (i think!) and 3rd in the Team test (she was doing the other set of Novice tests). Smoothly_Done (who did the elementaries) came 7th in both the team and the warmup tests - due to some idiot *runs off and hides in shame* calling the wrong test!!!! - Luckily it was only the warmup one
We bedded them all down in their stables for the night, and checked and our team was lying joint 2nd over night
Got up early saturday morning to feed, plait up and muck out. Archie was nice and chilled as usual!! (he was falling asleep when i was plaiting him up!)
Did our first test and he was a STAR!! Got 68.92% and came 2nd again - however the judge was leader and trainer to the team that won my class - slightly suspicious if you ask me......Then the last test for him was indoors, it was BOILING hot and he was exhausted, i literally had to boot him around! They didnt hand out results until te end of the day to keep everyone in suspense as to the Team placings! But we got 64% and came 2nd - again!!!!
Then Lucy got 67% and 3rd and then 80.10%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and 3rd again!!!!! So she was chuffed to bits!
M_M got 6th in both hers, i think! and S_D unfortunately got eliminated in the first test as someone forgot to take her overreach boots off - not me for once!! And the judge didnt realise until halfway through the test and she had to be eliminated unfortuately
At 4:30 we all had to gather, dressed in our hats/jods, for the prizegiving. They started off by giving out the prizes for the best individuals at each level - so this was the top combinations of all 4 tests we'd done at each level.
Lucy came 4th over all which she was chuffed to bits about!
Then Archie monster and i only went and won the individual section (as we had the highest placings overall because of his 3 2nds and 6th)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And to make it even better, our team came 2nd!!!!!
So i just want to say a HUGE thank you to everyone for coming, and i hope you all enjoyed it! Also thanx to everyone who came and supported us, it was a fab weekend
oh, and Ben_and_Jerrys - i hope your horse is ok after its accident
