Tweseldown (2) - 23 May 2015

What a great weekend - four horses and 4 ribbons brought home!

It was a very rushed morning getting all the horses mucked out and horses loaded. I over slept which I haven't done in a very long time. I must have pressed the off button instead of the snooze oops! Luckily Kirsty woke me up with a phone call!!  Amazingly we did still manage to get there on time.

Had the three 90 girls out again, Penny, Bea and Mouse. They all did super dressage tests. Mouse had a 29.5, Penny who gets better every time I take her out 28.3 and Bea just let the side down (only slightly!) with 31.5 which is still very good.

Penny won her section with a super double clear and is now moving up to 100s. She felt the best yet going XC. Bea also did a great double clear coming 7^th and Mouse came 2^nd!

Went up on Sunday with Ollie -  more time to think when you just have the one competing! He also scored a great dressage of 28 but had the first pole down SJ which is really odd for Ollie, he soon picked his toes up after that.

Followed up with a super fast XC round coming home with a 6^th adding more points to the South East Eventers League Rankings.

Pulborough - 5 October 2012

It wasn't such an early start yesterday which was nice!  We didn't leave the yard until 9.30 am. 

We set off with the three boys,  Ollie, Corby and Tango Man! 

Ollie was entered for IN but I decided to swap to BE100 after SoE to hopefully have a good run before the end of the season.

This turned out to be great with Ollie winning his BE100 section with a 31 dressage and a double clear.  He's definitely more of a SJ and a good BE100 horse, not quite there with the courage for Novice! 

I can always relay on the Corbster to get placed (when he's not it's pilot error - missing a jump etc!!).  He was 3rd with a double clear - third time running we've come 3rd just shows how consistent he is! 

Tango was a bad pony!!! He didn't like the look of number 2 in the SJ and ended up dropping a shoulder and letting me jump the jump clear!  Unfortunately we were then eliminated as the SJ wasn't in the ring he went out so couldn't remount.  Shame we didn't have a chance to complete the SJ and go round the XC course.

So it's the end of the season for my neddies! Just one more event for me (today!) at Twelesdown with the lovely coloured mare I have on livery, Esther "Poppinghole Patchwork".  I'll let you know how I get on later!

Go Holly!

Great end to the season, Holly ("Cullawn Holly") and I came 3rd in the Intermediate at Tweseldown.

A testing SJ course with 11 jumps only 5 clears (including Holly's perfect round!). As usual the XC was testing and twisting, we got a few time penalities but got home safely and another double clear! Unfortunately there were a few falls on the course and only 2 made it back within the time.

Hopefully on these results Holly and I should win the Owner/Rider and Leading Mare rankings and come 2nd in the Leading Horse & Rider and Leading Intermediates! I'll keep you posted once the SEEL (http://www.south-east-eventers-league.co.uk/) results are finalised.