Prince33Sp4rkle
Well-Known Member
firstly, i would like a refund on the weather......it was meant to be sunny today and DRY!!!! humph.
secondly, mahoosive thanks to Lucy @ LVR Equine transport who took me, nik, and CS to Moulton. Perfect journeys there and back, anyone needing transport in the midlands i can highly reccomend, it was a totally stress free way to get to and from the show
invested in some super strength snuff for the boy today, in light of it being his first show since last Oct, so he had Equine America SUPER Kalm instead of the So Kalm paste, and i dont know if it was that, or the little pep talk i gave him...("you are 6 now, you are all growed up, growed up horses dont leap round the warm up on their back legs, only 4 and 5yo are allowed to do that")......but he was super chillaxed, not a ping or a pong in sight and no leaping!!! we shall see anyway, will give him next weekend on full dose again then try a half dose, and see if that makes any diff. at £20 a dose it aint cheap but if it works its all fine with me (less so so with mastercard perhaps...)
i felt like i rode like a total bag of spanners today, couldnt keep my ass down, couldnt keep my legs back, and could feel my left hip popping out from under me. so a visit to the chiro may be in order, just felt all at sea??????
pony bless him ignore my discombobulated bimbling around and got on with the job like a pro, first up E53, which we did a couple of times last year, but today did feel much more mature, like we had a lot more room and time to prepare.
was pleased with leg yields as have worked really hard on those this week to get them show perfect and 100% straight, all halts square and no fumbled left canter strike off (his weak point when tense), so chuffed to bits with all that.
being really picky he dropped behind my leg in the first canter a bit, and i couldnt sit properly to the medium trot at all, but thats me not him.
over the moon with 70.88% and 1st overall by a long way-2nd overall was on 64.something%. what a clever chap, so big wedge of points towards the regionals
time for a quick break for some noms, and then back on board for our medium debut-M73.
he felt really good in the warm up, really off the leg laterally and trying to give me his bestest half passes. didnt do too much as he felt a bit tired, and then we were in.....
.....first shoulder in and HP were a bit wobbly, i could feel him being like "erm, we dont do THIS in the ring you crazy lady" but he got on with it and second set of lateral stuff was much more secure, and by the canter HP he had it nailed.
shoulder ins and pirouettes got 7's, dropped to 6's for the HP work as he just needs more strength to show real self carrrige in it, but he tried very hard to keep his legs crossing in the right direction for me.
superstar CS got 65.65% and was 1st overall again, so he won £32 today, and some more points towards another regional.
thrilled to bits with his first show of 2011.
bagels with cream cheese and lucozade for all!!!
trot:
shoulder in:
medium:
canter:
sleepy CS!!!
half pass, love him, HATE me
bloody left hip...
streeeetchy:
test pics:
secondly, mahoosive thanks to Lucy @ LVR Equine transport who took me, nik, and CS to Moulton. Perfect journeys there and back, anyone needing transport in the midlands i can highly reccomend, it was a totally stress free way to get to and from the show
invested in some super strength snuff for the boy today, in light of it being his first show since last Oct, so he had Equine America SUPER Kalm instead of the So Kalm paste, and i dont know if it was that, or the little pep talk i gave him...("you are 6 now, you are all growed up, growed up horses dont leap round the warm up on their back legs, only 4 and 5yo are allowed to do that")......but he was super chillaxed, not a ping or a pong in sight and no leaping!!! we shall see anyway, will give him next weekend on full dose again then try a half dose, and see if that makes any diff. at £20 a dose it aint cheap but if it works its all fine with me (less so so with mastercard perhaps...)
i felt like i rode like a total bag of spanners today, couldnt keep my ass down, couldnt keep my legs back, and could feel my left hip popping out from under me. so a visit to the chiro may be in order, just felt all at sea??????
pony bless him ignore my discombobulated bimbling around and got on with the job like a pro, first up E53, which we did a couple of times last year, but today did feel much more mature, like we had a lot more room and time to prepare.
was pleased with leg yields as have worked really hard on those this week to get them show perfect and 100% straight, all halts square and no fumbled left canter strike off (his weak point when tense), so chuffed to bits with all that.
being really picky he dropped behind my leg in the first canter a bit, and i couldnt sit properly to the medium trot at all, but thats me not him.
over the moon with 70.88% and 1st overall by a long way-2nd overall was on 64.something%. what a clever chap, so big wedge of points towards the regionals
time for a quick break for some noms, and then back on board for our medium debut-M73.
he felt really good in the warm up, really off the leg laterally and trying to give me his bestest half passes. didnt do too much as he felt a bit tired, and then we were in.....
.....first shoulder in and HP were a bit wobbly, i could feel him being like "erm, we dont do THIS in the ring you crazy lady" but he got on with it and second set of lateral stuff was much more secure, and by the canter HP he had it nailed.
shoulder ins and pirouettes got 7's, dropped to 6's for the HP work as he just needs more strength to show real self carrrige in it, but he tried very hard to keep his legs crossing in the right direction for me.
superstar CS got 65.65% and was 1st overall again, so he won £32 today, and some more points towards another regional.
thrilled to bits with his first show of 2011.
bagels with cream cheese and lucozade for all!!!
trot:
shoulder in:
medium:
canter:
sleepy CS!!!
half pass, love him, HATE me
bloody left hip...
streeeetchy:
test pics:
