Omg I was going to ask if he was a vendeen, I love love love them. I really want a petit for my next dog, they're such happy souls ???
He did eventually allow himself to be caught and then did some decent work but I wouldn't have been that upset if he'd broken all his legs at that point tbh! really struggled to get ploddy company before so this will be great for her. i have no interest in making her go charging around at this point, she hates it and doesn't need to but regular trudging up the hill is perfect. he's one of those that will just do what you ask him the first time, and then he starts to think about it too hard and gets in a muddle everything takes twice as long when you get stuck watching funny antics
So a very uninspiring express eventing!
Wild SJ for a pole down. Two stops XC, Skylla said number two was way too big and hedge’y (think I might have agreed with her)and the turn back for the corner, Skylla just didn’t seem to register it. However, popped both on the second asking and felt mega over the rest of the course.
Popping the last:
Really need to solve our control in the SJ as she's running through the hand and then going woah why didn't you tell me there's a fence there lol. Winter of schooling coming up I feel!
, luckily work are pretty flexible normally with holidays!.
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Anyway, here's Hera distracting me from poo picking, pratting about
haha, it was hard before, but now it's a whole lot harder. basically wherever I am, i should be somewhere else, doing something else
kicking myself for not even thinking about it but it hasn't flared up for months so I completely forgot. He still enjoyed himself though.
Yeah we already have a plan to go to Kelsall with Tuffy when it opens afterwards, I'd send them a message now but looking how many entries they have for the weekend I think they might be a 'little' busy
I think it might have had a revamp since you were last there, as my YO said they have spent quite a bit on it in the last couple of years? I've found it a nice venue with a wide range of fences on the XC field, and they re-did take off's and put surface down up the track near the water which was good, as otherwise it would only be possible to trot up the hill really otherwise. This was most of the 80 course, though it does make for a slightly fiddle/ twisty course as you do have to go round the other jumps as they just use the schooling fields for the comps.
First was lovely and tiny
Second hideous and massive
You can see the innocuous 70 fence in the background that I fell off at last year
There is a drop on landing here, one stride to the small palisade:
The dreaded corner! It was a long gallop up to it and then you turned back on-yourself to jump it, still frustrating to have the stop!
New drop to log combo
Small trakehner
Not my pictures so tried to take the ones where you cannot see peoples faces, though they were posted to the public fb page!
Could be that for me too - I opted for a Firefox based FB protection a couple of wks ago. Am ok if there is a link to it but not if embedded - I think
thanks for the tips!
