SRC ODE - Lodge Farm 12 August 2012

I went to Sevenoaks Riding Club ODE at Lodge Farm in Matfield ODE.

I took Prima, Esther and Ollie. Esther and Prima were both in the 85 cm.

Esther did a fab test of 27 and even scored two 9s! Clear SJ so in the lead and had a stupid stop xc which was a shame. 

Esther - Poppinghole Patchwork

Prima is another new ride owned and bred by Fiona Cialfi.  Fiona has bred many  eventers and owned the TB stallionMore Pokey who evented very successfully at ** and Intermediate level.

Prima was only backed earlier in the season and has done very well and behaves well at events.She still has a lot to learn and I need to work with her SJ she's keen to fly at the jumps which sometimes means we drop the back rail off.

She had a 29.5 dressage and she had quite a few down SJ and two run outs xc. So it wasn't our day but all good event experience for her.

Prima - Pokeys Pioneer

I did the 1m with Ollie he had a 28 dressage and a fab clear SJ round like always! Clear XC jumped in the water perfect and didn't go swimming this time! 

Ollie came 3rd he was a little slow so had time faults otherwise we would have won. 

Ollie - Cullawn Warrior

Ollie and Esther had the best dressage in their sections.

South of England - Saturday 9th April

Second outing of the season for Corby & Holly was SOE.

After my fall with Holly in the SJ at Goring (see previous post!) I thought it was a good idea to see if I could move classes with Holly from the Open Novice to the Open BE100. Sarah Robinson the secretary for SOE was great and sorted this out for me. Holly went well with a 28.5 dressage and a double clear we ended on our dressage score in 3rd place. Holly felt great and just like the old Holly again. She's entered for the Open BE100 at Nurstead then I'll do a couple of Open Novices then we should be back up to Open Intermediates.

Photo: Pip Simpson

Corbster had another good day too. He had a 34 dressage which is unusual and he did feel like he went better then that, but was very good again giving a nice double clear, 2 time penalties XC put us in 5th place. Pippa Funnell won the class on one of her Billy Stud's horses - Billy Crackle. Corby is also entered for Nurstead in the BE100.

Busy week this week, schooling for Marilyn, Debs & Anna. Hopefully XC at Lodge Farm on Wednesday. Taking an RVRC clinic on Saturday at Lodge Farm and then the Ardingly Riding Club Unaffliated ODE on Sunday. I'll be riding Tango, Bobby and Debs horse, Cracker. Will update blog to let you know how I got on!

I'm going to be doing a few more unaffilated ODEs locally with Tango before he's signed up for a half season BE. I'm lucky that there are some good ones that are run in the area, Ardingly, Chilham, Pulborough, Borde Hill and my Riding Club Rother Valley, Sevenoaks RC also run great ones just to name a few!