got a red rosette!!
80cm XC pairs!
Qualified for National Hunter trials finals at Eland Lodge!
80cm XC pairs!
Qualified for National Hunter trials finals at Eland Lodge!
OMG finally...
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That’s us going over fence 16.
And this is the GoPro footage!
That's worth buying.
Love the colours. Did you get your top sorted in the end? Was it you that had fitting issues?
Could be your lucky top though.Yes it was me, no i didn’t sort it, and yes it still hacks me off.
He makes 3’ seem easy. Honestly, I find it more difficult to get him to jump 1’6” correctly because he won’t pick his feet up. “But this is a trotting pole, Mum”
Wow, amazing! Congratulations Love the video, but I must say it did make the fences look a lot smaller than they actually are! I'm terrified just standing next to an 80 cm XC fence! Can I ask why you kept slowing down on the course? Is it because of time penalties? Sorry if that's a silly question, I know nothing about hunter trials and always imagined it would be a flat out gallop between fences.
Love the video, but I must say it did make the fences look a lot smaller than they actually are! I'm terrified just standing next to an 80 cm XC fence! Can I ask why you kept slowing down on the course? Is it because of time penalties? Sorry if that's a silly question, I know nothing about hunter trials and always imagined it would be a flat out gallop between fences.
Wow, amazing! Congratulations
It normally is. But I discovered that the course is effectively 750+ metres short.
Optimum time was 4:24:00
Optimum speed given was 425 metres per minute.
I measured the course with a course walk app, and sent it off for public upload so anyone can download it. (CrossCountryApp - lite. It’s the free version where you can download, but not create courses. Look for Hall Place Equestrian Centre, )
The app owners actually emailed me back- here’s a copy & paste: “Thanks for recording the course and sending it for publication. Can you confirm if it should be listed as a Novice 80 cm as this seems a little at odds though happy to go with your confirmation. Can you also confirm if the optimum time of 4min 24sec is correct with an official length of 1870 please? I ask because the course as measured stands at 1115m which gives an optimum time about half of the official one.”
So that’s why we kept slowing down.
And I think we chuffing NAILED IT because we were 11 seconds outside optimum time. If I hadn’t had to circle him to stop him getting his head kicked in over the roll top, we would have been bang on it I reckon.
It also explains why I have a massive problem with the XC there because he is always, ALWAYS too fast. It’s not that he’s too fast, it’s that the course is too short.
And therefore that the time is too long. I took a photo of the results sheet- there were 2 clear rounds, us and the pair who finished 2nd. The closest time to ours was over a minute inside optimum. One was over a minute and a half inside it!So, the problem is going to be, getting my partner up to speed. I think we need to do a lot of XC schooling this summer.
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