Witch Pony Update - Super Proud! Area Festivals!! (pic heavy)

LiffWee93

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Well, the last time i updated everyone we had just won our elementary debut!! <3

since then, we have been quietly working away, doing tonnes of hacking, regular lessons and keeping things ticking :)

Bank holiday monday we hacked over to a beautiful facility about 10 mins away to have a play cross country! Lola absolutely loved it and flew everything first time except the largest arrowhead and that was entirely my fault!! we had a whale of a time :)
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we have been enjoying the scenery <3 love this time of year!
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then... onto friday!

Lola made her novice Area Festival Debut!! we went with the aim to complete the test and collect our plaque - both of which we achieved and much more!
she warmed up beautifully!! though, being this time of year, she has gotten rather hairy, so i think i over cooked her a bit as we went into the test and i struggled to keep her in front of me entirely, but she was really sweet, just broke after the second medium canter as i over half halted *sigh*, the mediums werent what she can do and the walk went nowhere really, and the final halt was a mess! but, we did it!! next time we will be better :D my lovely instructor came to help us, and i apologised for doing the test so badly - but he pointed out this is the first big championship she has done and she was just perfectly behaved on all accounts <3 and that he was proud of us whatever happened -- which was a massive thing!!
imagine my surprise, to score 65.2 in a low scoring class - finishing 8th overall in our class - meaning we were into our first dressage prize giving <3 <3 i will admit to shedding a few tears in the lap of honour ha
I honestly couldnt wish for more - its easy to think that if i had done 10 mins less in the warm up, how much different the scores could have been - but hindsight is wonderful isnt it! Almost five years to the day of us having our accident, resulting in me deciding that i would never be able to ride her and she had a lengthy process of re backing before anyone could ride her.... <3
Pics by the lovely nikicb who has given me permission to share!! <3

all ready and smart to go!
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In the test
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test video : https://www.facebook.com/leanne.greatorex/videos/10157432670320066/

prize giving
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lap of honour video : https://www.facebook.com/leanne.greatorex/videos/10157432670320066/

she then has had the weekend off... and clipped tonight in readiness for the random warm spat we are supposed to have this week!

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well done if you made it this far!! <3
 

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Well done :) she is a new forest pony? I always wanted one of them since I was a kid but I think I am now too tall for one especially for competing sadly.
 

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Well done!!! She's looking very smart :)

It was nice to see a few non-dressage types doing well. The winner of our section was a smart looking coloured cob and 8th place was a Highland (which made the lap of honour a bit tricky for me and Indio as the Highland's short legs didn't move very fast so we kept catching up :D).
 

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Fab results and lovely pics, she looks like she's enjoying herself in all of them. Agree with J ^^ it's nice to see a variety of horses in the line up. Well done :)
 

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What a fab little girl she is. Love the xc pics, those look awesome. And I love the pic of her standing next to the big fancy dressage horsey on your right, what a poppet she is!
 

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Fabulous, well done both of you. She looks wonderful and you look great on her. A good combination I think ! You should feel very proud ! -and I love the pics.
 

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Well done lovely to see how well she's going. I've got v similar pony but a hand bigger. Newforest ponies are just fab.
 
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