WOOO First Rosette!

[Charmaine18]

Scooby and I have won our first ever rosette! The RS has a little show on today, and the first class was the minimus. It was only 1ft9 (Scoobs could've walked over them, and I was the oldest entrant by a good five or six years!), but I was a bit nervous because I've never gone over two jumps in a row before and he was playing up a bit in the wind. I needn't have worried though - he went round at a nice sedate trot, jumped each one perfectly (there were only six) and we got our clear round!

So now I have a bright orange rosette on the mantlepiece, and he got the biggest carrot in the bag and LOTS of cuddles. Annoyingly, I couldn't stay for the rest of the show... now I'm at home spring-cleaning my bedroom and doing tons of homework (or at least I should be

) - but I'll be on a high all day!

Onwards and upwards - the next rosette we get will hopefully have a number on it!

Probably sounds a bit silly to those of you who think nothing of whipping round Burghley (maybe a slight exaggeration...), but I'm so proud of my baby boy - and myself!

 

[sea_view]

Aw well done!!!! What a lovely feeling!

 

[proctor]

And so you should be proud of you and your boy! Well done! You never know, this could be the start of big things!

 

[Jbrogan]

Well done! You should be proud and I hope you continue to go onwards and upwards!!

 

[Persephone]

Congratulations!

What next then?!!

 

[Divasmum]

Well done. You must be over the moon.

 

[Nickijem]

Brilliant! I won my first rosette on my horsey last year - I now have 5, one of them is red with '1st' in the middle! I remember the first one though and I display them all proudly on the top of the dresser in the dining room.
You have every right to be feeling right proud of yourself and your ponio!

 

[Charmaine18]

Thanks for all your replies. We've got the Christmas show coming up in a month or two, so I'll be able to enter a proper competitive class.

Scoobs is loving it just as much as I am - to think, his old owner was considering retiring him as a field ornament!

 

[Goya]

Well done you.
That first rosette will always be the very special one. I can still remember mine--it was a 3rd in an apple and bucket gymkhana race back in the 60s.

 

[Bowen4Horses]

yay! that's ace, you've only had him five mins!

well done you and the scooobster

xxx

 

[Archangel]

Yay! Well done to both of you! Soon you will have a wall full

 

[merlinsquest]

Well done you two

I also remember my first rosette.... it was a third in a trotting race in 1979!!! I still have it

I even had to be led as I had only been riding for a little while and hadnt found the accelerator

I have won a fair few since, but most I cant remember what they were for... and the ones I won before I got merlin mostly ended up in a skip as OH wanted a clear out

dont know why I ever agreed