Rackham - 27 June 2015

Great event always seems nearer then it is. Just Penny and Bea on the Saturday. I was hoping Bea wasn't going to be as clumsy with the hot weather we had. We did improve our dressage with 30.8 just feels a little tight at times and needs to relax. I would say show jumping is her stronger point, but we had two down, Brian Lear built a very good course which coursed a few problems and plus I didn't have many brakes, I think a bit change is in order!!!  Cross country we had a hairy moment at the sunken road, we had to jump down and out over a skinny - it wasn't quite straight forward as that. We jumped to the left out to the right and crikey we’ve got to turn left to the skinny! We got around inside the time just missing out on placings.

Penny had a 30.8 showing I was very consistent in the dressage! We went ahead and jumped our best double clear coming 6th.

Next stop will be Brightling only 15 minutes down the road - yay!!!! I will have three horses in the BE100 Ollie, Bea and Mouse. I’ve been asked to be the Guinea Pig for the CIC*  dressage test. Will have to take one of the dressage divas but not sure who Madam or Poppy???!

Berkshire College - 13 June 2015

Just the two at Berkshire College as Ollie (Cullawn Warrior) got balloted and Mouse (Cavaliers Molly Moot) had to be withdrawn due to having a cough. So just the two girls Galwaybay Timberlina (Bea) and Doucette Du Seigneur (Penny). Bea was doing her first BE100 and Penny doing her first with me. I thought BCA would be a good course to start off with. There were quite a few skinnies and combination so more technical than big and bold. Penny scored another great dressage of 26 and just had the one fence down and clear XC inside the time made it feel easy. We came 2nd on a score of 30.

Penny

Bea had a 34.8 which wasn't too bad as we had a stumble out of the arena and nearly fell over in front of the judge! Such a clumsy horse at times! We had 4 faults SJ and a super clear XC and inside the time just coming inside the placings for 9th.