alphanumeric
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Hi All,
I don't often post on this forum, but I do lurk and I have an eventing query so thought of you!
I am looking to get out and do a few unaffiliated ODEs this year, having never done one before. At home and on clinics the beast and I are jumping around 1m - 1.05 SJ but we have not done masses of XC. We've been schooling a few times, did a baby height "Eventer's Challenge" at Rosehill a few weeks ago (had one silly run out because I was thinking about how sunny it was and failed to notice that the beast was drifting out of the line of fire...) and regularly pop logs, go through the water and whatever else we can find in Windsor Park out hacking. We also completed the Halton Ride yesterday, which is supposed to be around the 2'6/75cm mark, fairly successfully and didn't have any stops or real issues. We didn't jump everything (probably did about 70% of the fences, missed out a lot of the first section as was trying to stop beast being a twit before pointing him at anything!) but we faced a fairly wide variety of things, including stuff that we've not encountered before.
I really would like to find something easy and confidence giving (and preferably about 6 inches high, but I doubt that is realistic) for our first outing, as I get windy about jumping and the horse isn't exactly the most straightforward at times (though thankfully absolutely ADORES anything jump-related, especially XC). Scope is not the issue, the horse has a decent pop and I am a capable enough jockey (horse may disagree at times, but then I disagree with much of his more "interpretive" work
), it is just my confidence that may be suspect. So, the friend I did Halton with has sent me links to a few bits and pieces and I have clocked that there is an unaffiliated 80cm at Tweseldown on 14th April. We have schooled at Tweseldown before, but can anyone give me an indication of how tough the unaffiliated 80s are there? Would this be a sensible place to attempt a debut or not? Any thoughts appreciated.
As it seems to be the custom on here to offer things for the reading to the end of the post and in an effort to entice responses, I have chocolate buttons on offer
ETA: Gratuitous Halton photos to add, I don't expect anyone to be able to look at a photo and tell me we can do an event, but it will at least give you an idea of the beast and prove it can get over a fence/I'm not a troll, plus I'm still quite pleased with us
I don't often post on this forum, but I do lurk and I have an eventing query so thought of you!
I am looking to get out and do a few unaffiliated ODEs this year, having never done one before. At home and on clinics the beast and I are jumping around 1m - 1.05 SJ but we have not done masses of XC. We've been schooling a few times, did a baby height "Eventer's Challenge" at Rosehill a few weeks ago (had one silly run out because I was thinking about how sunny it was and failed to notice that the beast was drifting out of the line of fire...) and regularly pop logs, go through the water and whatever else we can find in Windsor Park out hacking. We also completed the Halton Ride yesterday, which is supposed to be around the 2'6/75cm mark, fairly successfully and didn't have any stops or real issues. We didn't jump everything (probably did about 70% of the fences, missed out a lot of the first section as was trying to stop beast being a twit before pointing him at anything!) but we faced a fairly wide variety of things, including stuff that we've not encountered before.
I really would like to find something easy and confidence giving (and preferably about 6 inches high, but I doubt that is realistic) for our first outing, as I get windy about jumping and the horse isn't exactly the most straightforward at times (though thankfully absolutely ADORES anything jump-related, especially XC). Scope is not the issue, the horse has a decent pop and I am a capable enough jockey (horse may disagree at times, but then I disagree with much of his more "interpretive" work
), it is just my confidence that may be suspect. So, the friend I did Halton with has sent me links to a few bits and pieces and I have clocked that there is an unaffiliated 80cm at Tweseldown on 14th April. We have schooled at Tweseldown before, but can anyone give me an indication of how tough the unaffiliated 80s are there? Would this be a sensible place to attempt a debut or not? Any thoughts appreciated. As it seems to be the custom on here to offer things for the reading to the end of the post and in an effort to entice responses, I have chocolate buttons on offer
ETA: Gratuitous Halton photos to add, I don't expect anyone to be able to look at a photo and tell me we can do an event, but it will at least give you an idea of the beast and prove it can get over a fence/I'm not a troll
, plus I'm still quite pleased with us
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