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This is a very happy report!
Last weekend Tango came back to Team Reggie after a nice winter holiday for him to digest his summer of learning. He's grown about 3 inches and is verging on Reggie-height. Al looks a tiny bit little on him as he's not exactly dainty! He's as agreeable as ever though, and Al's plan is to spend the next 6 months deciding what he wants to be when he grows up.
The other two boys have had this decision made though, and the eventing season is well under way! Both attended the Burnham Market eventer trial, Smokes in the 90cm and Reg in the 1m class. Smokes came off the lorry so calm they trotted him up and poked and prodded to see if he was ok... But no, he was just very chilled out! Al suspected he was conserving energy though, and was spot on right
He was quite green in the SJ section, with the distraction of mirrors and wind and other horses visible proving quite a lot for him to take in. He had one stop when he went very green about the filler flapping in the wind, but Al told him to man up, which he duly did and was very good for the rest of the round. He then skipped round the XC very happily and enjoyed himself immensely. Only just out of the rosies too in a big class!
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Reg compensated for Smokes chill by behaving appallingly! He was very lit up and jolly n the SJ, literally cantering through the offset skinny. He ended on 16 faults because Al insisted on not allowing him to career everywhere, but his round was really nice and when he's regained some sense things will improve further! He then stormed the XC in his usual manner, needing virtually no input for Al at all and generally being very cocky and very clever! He probably needs to move up XC-wise, but his SJ is not there. He'll have a lot of fun at BE100 though, sourcing the hardest XC tracks we can!
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Reg's SJ round, very exciting stuff!
And today, Smokes got a solo outing to Disneyland. Or Norton Disney as some call it He was doing the 90cm, and Al was a bit worried it was too big an ask as a second ever ODE/ 3rd XC round! Worries were compounded by it being the BE90 from October- a lovely course, but a proper end-of-season run rather than a green pony's first attempt!
But onwards, and he warmed up for the dressage sweetly. He got quite worried and lit up by someone insisting that they had right of way over the entire field for the warm up and getting far too close to him. He tried really hard though- canter transitions still need work, and he was still buzzed so tension crept in. But he tried really hard. The score was a disappointing 40, but he was still 12th after the dressage in a class of 40 odd!
The SJ wasn't big, but it was technical and caused its share of flying poles and stops. The winter spent working on control came into play and he jumped a lovely clear round. This shifted him up to 9th!
Finally, the XC. There'd been falls and stops and crying children and mothers all over the course so Al planned on just taking it one fence at a time and keeping things very steady.
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He started quite green, but as the round went on he gained in confidence and just kept jumping what was put in front of him.
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He was such a star, proper little trier. And he managed a DC on his first attempt at BE90 level, on his second ODE! Al is absolutely over the moon with him, he is such a game pony. He can be exceptionally annoying at times (Reg can testify!) but he tries very hard to always say yes.
No idea if he managed to get a frillie, because the Al didn't push on the XC at all and just let him work stuff out. Next time she'll push a little more as he was so clever today!
Thank you for reading
Last weekend Tango came back to Team Reggie after a nice winter holiday for him to digest his summer of learning. He's grown about 3 inches and is verging on Reggie-height. Al looks a tiny bit little on him as he's not exactly dainty! He's as agreeable as ever though, and Al's plan is to spend the next 6 months deciding what he wants to be when he grows up.
The other two boys have had this decision made though, and the eventing season is well under way! Both attended the Burnham Market eventer trial, Smokes in the 90cm and Reg in the 1m class. Smokes came off the lorry so calm they trotted him up and poked and prodded to see if he was ok... But no, he was just very chilled out! Al suspected he was conserving energy though, and was spot on right
He was quite green in the SJ section, with the distraction of mirrors and wind and other horses visible proving quite a lot for him to take in. He had one stop when he went very green about the filler flapping in the wind, but Al told him to man up, which he duly did and was very good for the rest of the round. He then skipped round the XC very happily and enjoyed himself immensely. Only just out of the rosies too in a big class![youtube]HSUvOQrQ-PI[/youtube]
Reg compensated for Smokes chill by behaving appallingly! He was very lit up and jolly n the SJ, literally cantering through the offset skinny. He ended on 16 faults because Al insisted on not allowing him to career everywhere, but his round was really nice and when he's regained some sense things will improve further! He then stormed the XC in his usual manner, needing virtually no input for Al at all and generally being very cocky and very clever! He probably needs to move up XC-wise, but his SJ is not there. He'll have a lot of fun at BE100 though, sourcing the hardest XC tracks we can!
[youtube]eqWUjMP4C_Q[/youtube]
Reg's SJ round, very exciting stuff!
And today, Smokes got a solo outing to Disneyland. Or Norton Disney as some call it
He was doing the 90cm, and Al was a bit worried it was too big an ask as a second ever ODE/ 3rd XC round! Worries were compounded by it being the BE90 from October- a lovely course, but a proper end-of-season run rather than a green pony's first attempt!But onwards, and he warmed up for the dressage sweetly. He got quite worried and lit up by someone insisting that they had right of way over the entire field for the warm up and getting far too close to him. He tried really hard though- canter transitions still need work, and he was still buzzed so tension crept in. But he tried really hard. The score was a disappointing 40, but he was still 12th after the dressage in a class of 40 odd!
The SJ wasn't big, but it was technical and caused its share of flying poles and stops. The winter spent working on control came into play and he jumped a lovely clear round. This shifted him up to 9th!
Finally, the XC. There'd been falls and stops and crying children and mothers all over the course so Al planned on just taking it one fence at a time and keeping things very steady.
[youtube]KGPEsxrGP10[/youtube]
He started quite green, but as the round went on he gained in confidence and just kept jumping what was put in front of him.
[youtube]YPeJgskUqb4[/youtube]
He was such a star, proper little trier. And he managed a DC on his first attempt at BE90 level, on his second ODE! Al is absolutely over the moon with him, he is such a game pony. He can be exceptionally annoying at times (Reg can testify!) but he tries very hard to always say yes.
No idea if he managed to get a frillie, because the Al didn't push on the XC at all and just let him work stuff out. Next time she'll push a little more as he was so clever today!
Thank you for reading
