Your High/Low lights of 2006...

Highs
Getting placed at Intro and PN
Starting R off eventing as in Jan we had only jumped 2'0
Being placed teamchasing
Doing inter hunt relay

Lows
Going really well at Charlton then horse being an arse at Aldon and B&W.
SJ has been a nightmare
Having a dressage of 23 then cocking up the SJ to add 12
Forgetting the course at BE not once but twice on two occassions so getting eliminated!
 
Highs

Taking Ben to camp, and proving my entire Pony Club that I can indeed ride a horse other than Foxy.
Winning or getting placed in the top 3 in every open class I've entered on Foxy during Spring.
Going hunting for the first time!

Lows

Foxy tearing his suspensory ligament the day before camp
The yard getting broken into again
Having Ben bolt 3 miles home with me at a local hunter trial (A scary experience on an ex racer with limited steering).
 
Highs

Being placed in Ben's first EI event (at the age of 24 (horse not me))
Brilliant season's hunting
Flora's first event (only a PC one but she was 2nd after dressage)

Lows

Flora being off all summer with bruised foot.

Fiona
 
Highs:
Clear XC in all BE events
Dressage all less than 40
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Getting to Novice level
Double clear and 10th in our only JRN
Keeping my horse sound! (apart from about 4 days but thats nothing for us!)

Lows:
Breaking my arm (buggered up my season!)
The weather (caused all events in May to be cancelled)
Pony Club in general (has gone from bad to worse for me along with giving me incredible bad luck)though I do like it a majority of the time....
 
Highs
Passed my pony club A test care
Won the horse and pony care at the pony club championships, sansaw
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Learning to drive
Buying Bialey - can't wait to event him

Lows
Having to accept that Robin is only getting older
Having to try and sell Robin (I still have him at the moment
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Robin getting kicked on the hock - vet thought it was fractured
Robin twisting a shoe and missing his pedal bone by 2mm
Insurance company refusing to insure Robin
I haven't really ridden this year - better now I have bailey boy
Still haven't had any driving lessons
 
Having a 17 yr old horse come back from a "career-ending" navicular diagnosis to compete Pre-Novice ( I think pre-novice is the BE equivalent of what he competed here in the US).

Three vets all told me there was nothing they could do.....except nerve him - yeah, right! A year off and a good farrier later he shot around XC clean three time this fall and had a blast!

He's a died in the wool eventer and is miserable if he doesn't go out. I guess that's Irish horses for you!

So that was my unbelievably best highlight of 2006
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Margie

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