XC Schooling Reports

[vallin]

Took the horror pony to Little Downham to school around their BE90 course yesterday. I was a little cautious as it was our first time schooling over anything I consider large ( ) without an instructor. Thankfully D was awesome and the friend I had roped in to be chief 999 caller could leave her phone firmly in her pocket We worked our way round the entire course and just had two stops (which for us is a minor miracle) and for once they can both be forgive - the first a complete jockey failure and the second a genuine green fence at the final fence on course which has a fairly tricky profile and was actually at the BE100 height. Thankfully she popped both happily the second time

Pics and videos below

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She appears to have just about stopped looking like a show horse but now started looking like she has a giant head!

Warm up on fire

Corner

We had a bit of a disagreement over the striding to this

Always got to force myself over a trakhener whenever there is one - bloody hate the things!

Cheeky 100 fence

Ruining all the hard work I'd done cleaning her earlier in the day!

[video=youtube;rbZmo9UuWwk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbZmo9UuWwk[/video]

[video=youtube;UOf-95-6QcU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOf-95-6QcU[/video]

[video=youtube;jT_MLBCE8JA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT_MLBCE8JA[/video]

 

[PaddyMonty]

Looking GOOD
Giant heads are the in thing these days.

 

[LouisCat]

Ooh you look great I love that picture over the tyres!

On an unrelated note... how do you get on with that fly mask? I often see them and think they're a great idea but our connie is an avid mask loser/destroyer so I don't want to buy a more expensive one just to give him more fun and games!!!

 

[PorkChop]

Fantastic, well done

 

[vallin]

Thanks PaddyMonty and LJR

LouisCat I really like it. She can get it off (I leave it loose as I don't like them not to be able to get things off in case the get caught etc) but very rarely does, maybe 2 or 3 times this year? Other horses on the yard have the equilibrium and shires masks and they seem to come off more often. The other one that is similar but a bit more streamline is the noble outfitters one - I haven't tried it but it looks good. I think KLM might do a copy of the Rambo ones D's wearing about that I suspect would be cheaper? (I got mine second hand )