Well that was scary!
It was a great day. I felt sick with nerves before hand and had my usual 'why do I do this to myself' head games. But it was all fine in the end.
Dressage: Max broke to canter twice Very unlike him. Grrr. My fault for practicing canter too much - he was anticipating in the wrong place. Even worse I scored a TWO for a section involving transition to walk at M and then M-B walk. Comments said 'no walk shown' which was just not true! He did not jog at all in the walk work. So no clue what happened there. Maybe I went wrong and transitioned to walk in the wrong place. But you';d think the judges would be able to tell that I had missed it and give me a test error of 2 points not score me a 2 - which was double scored as it was the walk section - to cost me about 8 points!
SJ went quite well - got to the last and thought 'yippee I'm clear' then knocked the last down for 4 faults.
XC started badly with a fall just after the first. No idea what happened. One second I'm jumping the next second I'm on the floor. I think he must have pecked badly on landing as he also seemed a bit all over the place and scrambled up managing to avoid stepping on me, bless him. Then he flew the rest of the course. One fence was a HUUUUGE palisade with brush over and a ditch in front.It looked flipping massive. I was terrified walking the course. I just could not believe it was on an 80 course but apparently the solid part of the fence can be up to 85 and you can have an extra 15cm of brush. It certainly looked like it could have been a metre!
Anyway he sailed over it - fab pony!
@eml it was our first Horseware Island experience! He had no issues with it though!!
Next stop 70cm ODE with Amber......!
It was a great day. I felt sick with nerves before hand and had my usual 'why do I do this to myself' head games. But it was all fine in the end.
Dressage: Max broke to canter twice Very unlike him. Grrr. My fault for practicing canter too much - he was anticipating in the wrong place. Even worse I scored a TWO for a section involving transition to walk at M and then M-B walk. Comments said 'no walk shown' which was just not true! He did not jog at all in the walk work. So no clue what happened there. Maybe I went wrong and transitioned to walk in the wrong place. But you';d think the judges would be able to tell that I had missed it and give me a test error of 2 points not score me a 2 - which was double scored as it was the walk section - to cost me about 8 points!
SJ went quite well - got to the last and thought 'yippee I'm clear' then knocked the last down for 4 faults.
XC started badly with a fall just after the first. No idea what happened. One second I'm jumping the next second I'm on the floor. I think he must have pecked badly on landing as he also seemed a bit all over the place and scrambled up managing to avoid stepping on me, bless him. Then he flew the rest of the course. One fence was a HUUUUGE palisade with brush over and a ditch in front.It looked flipping massive. I was terrified walking the course. I just could not believe it was on an 80 course but apparently the solid part of the fence can be up to 85 and you can have an extra 15cm of brush. It certainly looked like it could have been a metre!
Anyway he sailed over it - fab pony!
@eml it was our first Horseware Island experience! He had no issues with it though!!
Next stop 70cm ODE with Amber......!