I took third place this weekend…
After overcoming several obstacles, not all being on course…
The horse decided to kick the inside of the trailer on the way to Foxcroft, so when I pulled her off she was missing a chunk of hoof and bleeding from the coronet band. My trainer gave me her blessing on it, but suggested we get the Ferrier to check it out. So we walked over to him and after putting some glue over the missing hoof piece, to help with the sensitivity, he gave us his blessing.
Off to the first phase, Dressage, my trainer miss-heard the whistle and thought I was late…turned out the judge had not blown the whistle but was willing to forgive me my early entry if I promised to never listen to other people again. ;-) Poor Yoda…I think she needs some sleep. We rode it well, I had a lot of very nice comments on my test.
Phase two, Stadium, was a breeze…though Yoda shouted at me again when she thought I was going to jump the wrong jump. :-P I was passing by it, but the angle she saw looked like I was going to jump. We flew through it; Angel actually jumped everything, no rails down and all!
Phase three, Cross Country, was a workout and a half. She was very strong and it took a lot of muscle on my part to bring her back to me before each jump. I brought her down to a trot over most of them because she was so on the muscle. You can tell she loves her job. We came in under the time, no faults.
So I came in third, I’m very pleased…the top three were very close in scores; the Dressage score was the only thing separating us. The day flew by, everything running together like butter.
I couldn’t have asked for a better time!
After overcoming several obstacles, not all being on course…
The horse decided to kick the inside of the trailer on the way to Foxcroft, so when I pulled her off she was missing a chunk of hoof and bleeding from the coronet band. My trainer gave me her blessing on it, but suggested we get the Ferrier to check it out. So we walked over to him and after putting some glue over the missing hoof piece, to help with the sensitivity, he gave us his blessing.
Off to the first phase, Dressage, my trainer miss-heard the whistle and thought I was late…turned out the judge had not blown the whistle but was willing to forgive me my early entry if I promised to never listen to other people again. ;-) Poor Yoda…I think she needs some sleep. We rode it well, I had a lot of very nice comments on my test.
Phase two, Stadium, was a breeze…though Yoda shouted at me again when she thought I was going to jump the wrong jump. :-P I was passing by it, but the angle she saw looked like I was going to jump. We flew through it; Angel actually jumped everything, no rails down and all!
Phase three, Cross Country, was a workout and a half. She was very strong and it took a lot of muscle on my part to bring her back to me before each jump. I brought her down to a trot over most of them because she was so on the muscle. You can tell she loves her job. We came in under the time, no faults.
So I came in third, I’m very pleased…the top three were very close in scores; the Dressage score was the only thing separating us. The day flew by, everything running together like butter.
I couldn’t have asked for a better time!
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