Weston lawns BSJA report

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I did the same sodding thing as I did last week! Argh!!!! I'm so bloody annoyed with myself
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Warming up he was being a sod, he wasn't making any effort over the upright and we must have had it up pretty high because it was almost the same size as my mum! But he kept gtitng into the bottom of it and having it down but when I went to jump the spread he cleared it by miles!

I went into the arena and our line to no.1 wasn't the best but we got over, 2nd fence he jumped perfectly. The first two jumps were jumping away from the main building and we had to go right up to the top of the arena and do a u-turn and just over 2/3's of the way down the arena was fence 3 and we were heading straight for the warm up when we had a bugger of a turn to fence 4 (this is usually the sort of time he buggers off
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). Anyway, I really brought him back to me on the approach to fence 3 and gave him a bit more freedom 3 strides out and he cleared it perfectly! I got him back to me pretty quickly and we turned to 4 okay which was a 1 stride double with a spread as the first element and an upright for the second (The same type of thing which I fell off at last week!), I'd sat and watched the BN and Disco classes which has this combinatn included and the amount of people who fluffed it up was huge! I was bricking it but I picked my line and kicked on and he jumped his way through and was foot perfect!
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At no.6 I sat and left him to pick his own strde and I thought he was going to jump off a long one, so I folded.....Then threw in an extra stride.....Then went to take off but stopped.....I ended up on his neck. I could shoot myself for for doing the same thing as last week!
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When we were waiting for the fence to be put back up I thought about retiring but I'm very stubborn so carried on and we popped 6 perfecty the 2nd time. The final 3 fences were a large spread an upright and another large spread so this time I decided to sit and hold him until we were 2/3 strides out (I know I really shouldn't do that! I realy didn't want him running into his fences though). We cleared the last 3 feces perfectly and he got lots of pats
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I then realised I couldn't stop!
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I managed to pull him up eventually
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It was so nice to leave the arena on my horse though rather than leading him
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I think my round was worse than last week but I stayed on so I can't be too disappointed. I have a plan of action though, I'm going to try and get somelessons with Geoff Luckett because I reallt need to ge myself sorted but from now on I'll be going HC in BN or just a 90cm class if there is one until we get sorted
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Bless Olympic though, he does so well to put up with me
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My god that was long!
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Sorry about my rambling, it hlps me to write everything down so I can see where I've gone horribly wrong
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I shall put photo's of photo's in the PG
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Well done, your doing good!
Nice day to go SJ too, I didn't make it in the end- to lazy! The jumps were up at home....
 
I thought about doing that but at the moment getting placed dosn't bother me, I just want to concentrate on getting it right. Now that my forms have been sent off I just want to make the most of being able to jump affiliated (I'm I'm very pleased that the BSJA run dinky classes
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If you do BN HC though and you go clear you won't be able to go in the JO and you won't be able to jump any other class in the same ring not HC
 
I only ever go for one class at te moment anyway but we'll only be HCing in the BN if theres nothing else. I'm sure I've seen a 90cm Am Champs class about so I'll be lookingout for those
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I've seen a 90cm Am Champs class about so I'll be lookingout for those
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Weston Lawns do them. They had one yesterday and have another on sunday this week
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Well, i don't think it sounds like a complete disaster. Sure you've got some things to work on, and you've got to give yourself time to get used your new horse too
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It won't come overnight, but i really can't emphasise enough how important it is to stay jumping as small a track as possible uuntil you are 100% confident in each other. There are 90cms Am Qualifiers, and you might even find some 80cms Opens too....jump them if they're there as they will really help you. It doesn't matter if you're half a stride off over smaller fences as Olympic will dig you out of them. Definitely a good idea to get some help from Geoff too if you can.

Keep it up though, and don't get despondant
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Like Rambo, dont think its a disaster. Its frustrating, because you know what you are doing wrong and kick yourself for making the same mistakes.

I would certainly say that you should get some lessons with Geoff under your belt now. Be interesting to see your progress after having a couple of sessions wtih him and then go to another comp to put what youve learnt in to practise.
You are doing so well with a horse youve had such a short time.

Best of luck hun.

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If the course was like it was last week (which we sailed around fine until I coked up) we would have been okay but it felt and looked a hell of alot biger yesterday, if we'd gone cear in the 1st round I'd have retired because some of the jump off fences looked huge
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But I left the arena while still on my horse so I'm pleased about that
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If the course was like it was last week (which we sailed around fine until I coked up) we would have been okay but it felt and looked a hell of alot biger yesterday, if we'd gone cear in the 1st round I'd have retired because some of the jump off fences looked huge
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But I left the arena while still on my horse so I'm pleased about that
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I hear what you're saying, but the fact is you can't rely on the courses always looking the same
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Some days they look big, and others they look small.....it is mainly down to confidence though...and if you can increase your confidence, sooner or later ALL the courses will start to look small and then you are ready to move up
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Well it wasn;t too bad as people have said, better then last time and it takes a while to get used to new horses quirkes etc...what class were you doing? Jumps looked pretty big
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