We made it to Kentucky!

Can we ask if the winnings make any more than a tiny dent in the costs? They wouldn't in this country, I think.

Just watched the 1.30 speed class. Your turn from 9 to 10. Awesome!!
 
ycbm said:
Can we ask if the winnings make any more than a tiny dent in the costs? They wouldn't in this country, I think.

Just watched the 1.30 speed class. Your turn from 9 to 10. Awesome!!
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$300. BUT it goes towards your show account so it pulls off from the expenses first. If you win enough you get money, but for this week, it's helping to lessen the class costs.

Ok so about that turn..... This is funny. I woke up at 4 am and couldn't turn my head. My neck was so painful. I have no idea why but I was in pain. Thankfully one of the ice packs I brought from home is a human one. SO I stumbled around in the dark to the freezer, and found a towel and wrapped it up and iced myself for 45 mins. Amazingly I am fine now. Not sure what happened but 1 Naproxen and the icing and I was fine.

Em
 
@SpringArising

Haven't seen you comment so unsure if you've seen the videos but I wanted to tag you since what's notable to me when watching the videos from yesterday is how happy and relaxed Cudo is doing his job in a huge arena. Quite the polar opposite to the tension seen in our last school at home.

He really is happiest when showing. I've known that but this video grouping really shows it.

Em
 
I am so so happy for you. All your hard work has paid off and at Kentucky! What a team.

Cool calm and collected doesn't even hit it, that was pure gold to watch. Machines the two of you. Again I am in awe and just love your attitude and talent. I'll say it again, you really inspire me.

Best of luck in the next class, I've given your FB page a follow so I can keep up to date. I have everything crossd.
 
You have a beautiful and talented horse and you ride him so well. It was a pleasure to watch his round as his happiness at doing his job really shone through. I look forward to seeing the rest of the competition and wish you the absolute best.
 
Hi guys. I'm checking in a bit late but still hoping to catch you before the time difference gets worst. 😊

Cudo was awesome again today. Unfortunately we can't win everyday. In our first ever 1.35 class, which was a single round speed class just like yesterday's, we competed against 19 other riders and definitely the bigger horses and names were out. We went 3rd to last and I thought the leading time at that point was maybe able to be caught.

We went in and kicked on and it was a solid round through fence 8. Something happened over fence 9 (the yellow fence on the video) and I landed about to lose my right stirrup. I tried to fix it (as I was heading to a big oxer! ) and thankfully Cudo picked up that something was amiss and added a bunny hop that allowed my foot to come back into place almost but good enough to jump the oxer, though now from a deeper spot. We cleared it and had a bending line to an in and out. I stalled in my pace for a bit. No that we were terrible but I lost my rhythm briefly. We jumped the in and out and made the rollback to the last. I had my speed back and ran to the last. I thought Cudo had knocked it but amazingly (and shamefully I looked back to check the rail.

UGH

DON'T DO THAT.

We finished in 2nd. Only off the winner by 0.7 seconds. Ugh. If only..... lol.
So to recap, 2 scored classes and no worse than 2nd and (so far) $550 earned back.

The best part of the day was being able to get Cudo out for 3 hours this a.m. after we were done. Poor guy's been stuck inside for 2 days due to storms. He'll go back out tonight once it cools down for the night.

Tomorrow we opted for the conservative route. We're going to skip another open class in the am and stick to our Medium Amateur Owner class that's the last class of the day in the other jumper ring. In sp doing Cudo will have almost 30 hours of rest before he has to jump again. That felt like the right move and these are 1.30 classes until the classic on Saturday which is 1.35.

So there we are. Super proud of Cudo and wanting to work on myself some more!

Oh and due to a technical glitch the video starts at fence 4.

Em

 
ycbm said:
Get you! You jump your first ever 1.35 and you're miffed that you came second 😂😂😂


Well done!!l
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Well yea.....I mean the goal is winning.

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No seriously I am thrilled but it was so close and if I hadn't have lost the stirrup..... it's the what ifs that kill me.

But really the winner was the assistant trainer for Beezie Madden for 5 years. She's clearly skilled. And I don't have a.m education that good. I'm just teaching myself.

Em
 
he's some horse for one horse and you're some woman for one woman! You make a great team.

Congrats on another brilliant outcome. He really is an attentive horse to be able to fix those issues and support you, you can see he really trusts you.
 
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