Weekend plans

LiffWee93 said:
Lola did amazingly at bd today!
Finished our novice area festival qualification :D
Novice 38 - 67.10 and 5th bronze, 13/33 overall, really chuffed!! :D
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Well done again - it was lovely to see you both today!

I took Cassie out to our first BD this morning and we came 2nd bronze, 5th overall in our prelim class with 65.43% - our first AF sheet. So happy with her - will be smiling all week. :) x
 
Sounds like everyone's having fun so far. Well done LiffWee and Lola and Niki and Cassie :biggrin3:

I had a great xc schooling session. I really need to learn to not override but also keep my leg on the whole time, when I ride like that, G is amazing, but if I just take my leg off, he'll be out the side door. We did everything I wanted today, jumped some very scary fences and a ditch...

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and finished on a high:
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Thats a brilliant jump to finish on JennBags! the ditch doesn't look kind either, sounds like a good day!

Well done LiffWee thats a great score - so chuffed for you!

Well done on the BD Debut Nikicb!
 
LiffWee93 said:
Lola did amazingly at bd today!
Finished our novice area festival qualification :D
Novice 38 - 67.10 and 5th bronze, 13/33 overall, really chuffed!! :D
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I think you must have been 12th as I finished on the same score as you but pipped you by one collective mark! Go HHOers!

The classes were so huge that we were just leaving the yard when you were doing your test :O. We were there until 7.15pm as YO had a horse in the Elem and Medium, plus her own horse (some on here may remember her and Morris!) in the Advanced Medium. It was good to finally get home, we all had a great day though and three very good horses!
 
Very very excited as I have a new horse arriving today on 3 weeks trial.
I said i wouldn't announce it. So I thought if I snuck it in here it wouldn't count as actually announcing it lol
 
j1ffy said:
I think you must have been 12th as I finished on the same score as you but pipped you by one collective mark! Go HHOers!

The classes were so huge that we were just leaving the yard when you were doing your test :O. We were there until 7.15pm as YO had a horse in the Elem and Medium, plus her own horse (some on here may remember her and Morris!) in the Advanced Medium. It was good to finally get home, we all had a great day though and three very good horses!
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Haha yes jiffy! I saw that :D when I saw it was you, I didn't kind haha!
Gosh that's a very long day!!

Super proud of the pony though! :)

Was lovely to catch up with nikicb too :) successful weekend for all :D
 
Not such a successful day today. The niece had a lesson on my horse today and they were doing jumping. However my horse went into his lazy mode and ended up flipping over one fence when he got tangled up in it. The fence was only a 60-65 upright and he is capable of higher and the approach was fine he just forgot what to do.

The niece is totally fine and she got back on straight away and jumped again. That girl has no fear at all its crazy. The horse however was a bit scared think that was the first ever time he has fallen so he is feeling sorry for himself.

Odd thing though he was fine being ridden again and then my instructor got on to put him over an upright again and suddenly he becomes lame. I hosed his leg and once he was out in the field he managed to roll on the injured shoulder so think he may have been faking lameness. Checking him again tomorrow though obviously.

So yeah dramatic but the niece is totally fine and wants to ride him again. The horse is now slightly scared of jumping but my instructor is going to school him on Thursday if he is better and will school him once a week to get him back on track with jumping.
 
He may well have tweaked himself, remember that adrenalin can cover things initially. Horses don't know how to fake lameness.
 
ester said:
He may well have tweaked himself, remember that adrenalin can cover things initially. Horses don't know how to fake lameness.
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Maybe. I trotted him up after letting him rest for an hour and he looked fine but was maybe just worse under saddle. Gonna just trot him up tomorrow and tuesday and hopefully he is better by then.
 
I'm pleased to report that yesterday D's saddles both got the go-ahead after a quick re-stuffing and I've finally got round to sorting out my holiday pics and as I'm sad to be heading back to work tomorrow I thought I'd share a couple here :)

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Well done to all getting out and about, u had an SJ fail - class I wanted to jump at the localish venue usually starts around 2.30. Sat down at 12 to have lunch and see how they were getting on to find out it was just about to start... I could have made it for the end of the class if I'd rushed but it was waay too hot for that, so I made the most of an absent husband and child and caught some rays instead 😀👙🌞
 
We had a fun day at Bovington, RAC Saddle Club ODE - Really well run and a lovely set up!

Started with a pretty tense dressage, but it was really hot and i think she was quite agitated by it. But managed to just about keep a lid on it, i wasn't very hopeful for anything sub40, but watching the video back it looked fairly nice just a few 'piggy' moments!

Showjumping was the first time she's jumped a proper course in an arena and the fences were pretty up to height. Launched over the first fence in true Ruby style;
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Settled a bit better after that and was really listening and feeling quite confident, but still threw in some whoppers. Finished with all poles up but the hanging in the air gave us 1 time fault! and improvement at the 10 from Larkhill! This was by far the biggest course we've jumped and she didn't even rattle a pole, and i rode slightly better so thats a start!
over the last;
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By XC time it was baking and they were running late but she flew out the start, backed of at the first so i added some vocal encouragement and she was off! until number 9 . . . which was a big steep dirt mound that you basically jumped on and bounced off 3 strides to a house, came cruising unto it, bounced on . . . but then dropped the anchor but i didn't get the memo and carried straight on bridle in hand! . . . re-tacked up, clambered on and worked it out the second time and then literally flew home! Need to find a new bit combination/ level of understanding for XC as I'm finding it quite a battle to set her up which means i hang on for a bit too long, but nothing dampens her enthusiasm and she ran home still full of steam! Then found out our dressage was 29.8 so we were in 6th before XC.
Double of houses, almost home after the tumble!
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Sorry for the Essay!!
 
I gave the dressage with the judge who hates us in baking heat a wide berth and instead met up with my youngest horse's loaner and went hacking for hours including an ice cream stop and a play in the stream. Much more fun! Loads of piccies on my Facebook page. Well done to everyone out competing and lessening.
 
Wimbles said:
XC clinic tomorrow morning with Baby Brian, quite nervous as it will be his first time out XC this year and I am desperately scratching round for some confidence.

Saturday afternoon hopefully do some horseball training and if the weather's good on Sunday maybe find a pleasure ride to go on :)
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Well, things did not quite go to plan.

Friday evening I got to the yard, went to fetch Baby Brian but came back alone. The great eegit had parted company with yet another shoe so out of the window flew thoughts of the xc clinic. I then regrouped and went through the list of other possible candidates in the skanky tb team. Tiger would quite happily pop round but as I'd put my name down for the 65-75cm session it just felt like I wouldn't be learning much with the been there, done that old boy. Then there was Big Sam, he came to me with terrible injuries to his tendons and after much time off he now quite happily plays horseball on a nice surface I decided it wasn't worth risking him. That left Lloyd, he's come a long way from his previous injury and massively benefited from his barefoot rehab. He's taken to horseball brilliantly and is capable of doing a decent prelim dressage test but I have never even walked over a pole on him.....

I went to fetch him, popped him over a couple of poles on the lunge which he jumped enthusiastically - you're hired!

I arrived at the course feeling more than a bit nervous but said to myself that if we jumped a small log and trotted through the water then I would be happy.

Got on and warmed up lovely, he's such a pleasant and well mannered horse compared to the very talented but massively dramatic Brian. We went toward the practice fence (which was already bigger than I had been planning on jumping), wavered into it, I put my leg on and off he popped! SUCCESS!

He went on to jump absolutely everything I put him at including hedges, steps into water, skinnies, ditches the lot! I'm still grinning now!!! Think I've got a little star in the making! Funny how these things happen!

Sunday's Pleasure ride was cancelled so myself and friend boxed up and went to a nearby reservoir. It was glorious and we had a lovely time bowling along through meadows, woods and even had a dip in the water :)
 
LP - your mare is coming on leaps and bounds, unlucky about the tumble, sounds like a bit of a rotten question to ask at that level.
JFTD, Fergs looks fab as always :)
Wimbles - got to love a willing TB :D
 
Fab pictures everyone. Looks like you all had fun. Very handy Wimbles that you had substitutes, sounds like the boy did good! Jumped on Friday but no riding for me this weekend, too much other stuff planned so he had two days off.
 
Wimbles said:
Well, things did not quite go to plan.

Friday evening I got to the yard, went to fetch Baby Brian but came back alone. The great eegit had parted company with yet another shoe so out of the window flew thoughts of the xc clinic. I then regrouped and went through the list of other possible candidates in the skanky tb team. Tiger would quite happily pop round but as I'd put my name down for the 65-75cm session it just felt like I wouldn't be learning much with the been there, done that old boy. Then there was Big Sam, he came to me with terrible injuries to his tendons and after much time off he now quite happily plays horseball on a nice surface I decided it wasn't worth risking him. That left Lloyd, he's come a long way from his previous injury and massively benefited from his barefoot rehab. He's taken to horseball brilliantly and is capable of doing a decent prelim dressage test but I have never even walked over a pole on him.....

I went to fetch him, popped him over a couple of poles on the lunge which he jumped enthusiastically - you're hired!

I arrived at the course feeling more than a bit nervous but said to myself that if we jumped a small log and trotted through the water then I would be happy.

Got on and warmed up lovely, he's such a pleasant and well mannered horse compared to the very talented but massively dramatic Brian. We went toward the practice fence (which was already bigger than I had been planning on jumping), wavered into it, I put my leg on and off he popped! SUCCESS!

He went on to jump absolutely everything I put him at including hedges, steps into water, skinnies, ditches the lot! I'm still grinning now!!! Think I've got a little star in the making! Funny how these things happen!

Sunday's Pleasure ride was cancelled so myself and friend boxed up and went to a nearby reservoir. It was glorious and we had a lovely time bowling along through meadows, woods and even had a dip in the water :)
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Is this the Brian, that is also named 'Dangerous Brian'? - i love that!

Lloyd sounds brilliant, initially you were cursing brian but i bet now you are thanking him for loosing that shoe!

Lanky Loll said:
LP - your mare is coming on leaps and bounds, unlucky about the tumble, sounds like a bit of a rotten question to ask at that level.
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It was a bit, but i think she just felt so confident and we'd done some banks the week before with no problem that i just got ahead of myself, and thought she'd worked it out, but she hadn't! I just need to remind myself that i still have to give her time to work these little questions out!
 
LeannePip said:
Is this the Brian, that is also named 'Dangerous Brian'? - i love that!

Lloyd sounds brilliant, initially you were cursing brian but i bet now you are thanking him for loosing that shoe!
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It is the one and only Dangerous Brian, who has been a bit better behaved of late. I like to think that he's slowly maturing but I think he's just too full of grass atm to do anything really daft.

One day he's going to be a Superstar, it's just not going to be any day soon....
 
Looks like people had good weekends in the sunshine. I didn't make the car show but spent the day in the garden with my oh so it wasn't a complete loss :)
I did however get a little mooch out on Sunday in the sunshine so we had to try out the new matchy

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A quick pic of Lloyd having a go at the ditch. My stirrups were on the shortest hole and I was too ashamed to put a twist in them!! I also seemed to have issue with my BP riding up somewhat lol!


And Dangerous Brian at one of his last outings!

 
vam said:
Looks like people had good weekends in the sunshine. I didn't make the car show but spent the day in the garden with my oh so it wasn't a complete loss :)
I did however get a little mooch out on Sunday in the sunshine so we had to try out the new matchy

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Love it. I've got the BS coming any day 😍 They are the best fit for my new saddle, what a great excuse 😂
 
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