Rosiefan
Well-Known Member
Rosie took Bolly and Bertie to do a Prelim and a Novice test apiece on Thursday with Charlie pony on board as the calmer. Fortunately her times were sensible but she still got up at 4am to plait and polish and help her Mum muck 12 (yes 12) out before they left. I joined them later as chief video monkey 
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It was Bolly's first show since last October and Bert has only done a clear round or two since he came back into work last autumn after having a year off to sort out his tendon injury. We were expecting some fireworks in the warm up but neither of them was too bad and they duly worked their way through Prelim 18 - not brilliant but Rosie went wrong on Bolly much to her disgust. Think he got about 59% and Bert got about 64% and came 5th. The video monkey decided it was too cold to take her gloves off and work the camera until she'd 2 chocolate bars and a cup of coffee so no film you'll be relieved to hear
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A bit of a gap for more chocolate etc and on to Novice 27. The sun was making patterns on the floor of the arena where it shone through the skylights and sure enough, Bolly decided these were for jumping over or swerving round. Bert agreed about the sun but he just did a 'what the hell is that/sharp intake of breath' type movement a couple of times. I don't know why some patches were scary and some weren't but there you go
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I actually plucked up courage to take one glove off and film Bert. Haven't uploaded it all - takes too long on the pathetic bandwidth BT allows me - but here's a bit in the middle.
We didn't hang around as there were still loads to go and there were hardly any scores up but found out afterwards that Bolly got 174 and Bert got 186 and was 3rd. Not sure, but if it was out of 240 like the Prelim that's 72.5% for Bolly and a whopping 77.5% for Bert! Only unaffiliated but we were very pleased with how they went.
I'm about to go and make a big pot of leek and potato soup so you're very welcome to a bowl of that as a reward for reading all this if you fancy some
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PS Does anyone who lives in the Gt Yeldham/Hedingham area of N Essex know of anyone who'd like a part-time yard job? Don't know how they're going to manage when the eventing season starts
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.It was Bolly's first show since last October and Bert has only done a clear round or two since he came back into work last autumn after having a year off to sort out his tendon injury. We were expecting some fireworks in the warm up but neither of them was too bad and they duly worked their way through Prelim 18 - not brilliant but Rosie went wrong on Bolly much to her disgust. Think he got about 59% and Bert got about 64% and came 5th. The video monkey decided it was too cold to take her gloves off and work the camera until she'd 2 chocolate bars and a cup of coffee so no film you'll be relieved to hear
.A bit of a gap for more chocolate etc and on to Novice 27. The sun was making patterns on the floor of the arena where it shone through the skylights and sure enough, Bolly decided these were for jumping over or swerving round. Bert agreed about the sun but he just did a 'what the hell is that/sharp intake of breath' type movement a couple of times. I don't know why some patches were scary and some weren't but there you go
.I actually plucked up courage to take one glove off and film Bert. Haven't uploaded it all - takes too long on the pathetic bandwidth BT allows me - but here's a bit in the middle.
We didn't hang around as there were still loads to go and there were hardly any scores up but found out afterwards that Bolly got 174 and Bert got 186 and was 3rd. Not sure, but if it was out of 240 like the Prelim that's 72.5% for Bolly and a whopping 77.5% for Bert! Only unaffiliated but we were very pleased with how they went.
I'm about to go and make a big pot of leek and potato soup so you're very welcome to a bowl of that as a reward for reading all this if you fancy some
.PS Does anyone who lives in the Gt Yeldham/Hedingham area of N Essex know of anyone who'd like a part-time yard job? Don't know how they're going to manage when the eventing season starts
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