TGM
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Well, the long journey (5 hours) to Lincoln was definitely worth it, and particularly nice that the long term weather forecast of heavy showers was wrong! Although we drove through a couple of showers on the way up, we arrived to find the sun shining at the showground. Once the ginger one was settled into his temporary stable where he seemed happy and relaxed, we pootled back to the horsebox where OH displayed his culinary skills by rustling up some burgers and sausages with various accompaniments, followed by chocolate brownies and washed down with wine, beer (plus lemonade for the Sprog).
Sunday dawned and the sun was still shining, even if the air was rather chilly to start. First off was the Riding Test - the Sprog did what I thought was a very nice test, although you are never sure whether the judge is going to agree. A few piccies from the Riding Test:
Then onto the dressage, doing Prelim 12, which isn't the best test for the ginger one as he usually does better when the test is a bit more complicated. But his test was overall very pleasing, apart from the appalling halt at the end! Piccies from the dressage:
Finally, the scores went up and we were thrilled to see that the Sprog had got a whopping 77.14% in the Riding Test, which put her into second place in her arena (the leader having less than 0.5% more than her). BRC don't have a ride-off to determine individual placings, but employ a formula which compares scores between arenas, and the Sprog ended up second overall as well (and actually had higher collectives than the individual champion). Even better, the team was second as well!
A piccie from the Riding Test prizegiving:
In the dressage, we found that they had scored 71 point something, which put them in 5th place in their arena and the team was sixth as well.
So we finally left on the long journey home with a lovely clutch of rosettes, and even better enjoyed an free run back down south and managed to get home just before dark!
Just to finish, I would like to say a big THANK YOU to all the staff and volunteers at the Championships who worked hard to ensure that everything went smoothly. I know some helpers were working very long hours, particularly the people involved in stabing who had to sort out all sorts of problems and were beavering away late at night and were back on duty early the next morning.
Sunday dawned and the sun was still shining, even if the air was rather chilly to start. First off was the Riding Test - the Sprog did what I thought was a very nice test, although you are never sure whether the judge is going to agree. A few piccies from the Riding Test:
Then onto the dressage, doing Prelim 12, which isn't the best test for the ginger one as he usually does better when the test is a bit more complicated. But his test was overall very pleasing, apart from the appalling halt at the end! Piccies from the dressage:
Finally, the scores went up and we were thrilled to see that the Sprog had got a whopping 77.14% in the Riding Test, which put her into second place in her arena (the leader having less than 0.5% more than her). BRC don't have a ride-off to determine individual placings, but employ a formula which compares scores between arenas, and the Sprog ended up second overall as well (and actually had higher collectives than the individual champion). Even better, the team was second as well!
A piccie from the Riding Test prizegiving:
In the dressage, we found that they had scored 71 point something, which put them in 5th place in their arena and the team was sixth as well.
So we finally left on the long journey home with a lovely clutch of rosettes, and even better enjoyed an free run back down south and managed to get home just before dark!
Just to finish, I would like to say a big THANK YOU to all the staff and volunteers at the Championships who worked hard to ensure that everything went smoothly. I know some helpers were working very long hours, particularly the people involved in stabing who had to sort out all sorts of problems and were beavering away late at night and were back on duty early the next morning.
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