Started with RC qualifier on Saturday. Rode N27 and was 3rd after the dressage on 72.1%. His dressage has come on leaps and bounds and loved seeing a sheet full of 7's and 8's and even an 8 for submission - not a horse you would historically have described as submissive in any sense of the word!
onto the jumping and it wasn't a very nice course in our book - nasty right handed dog leg 3 to 4 then sharp right hander to a planks then another sharp right hander to a related distance. We dont like sharp right hand bends, let alone 3 in a row! You'd think at 85cm we could manage a clear but seriously fluffed up the dogleg and had the oxer down
Fortunately it didn't affect placings so cant kick myself too much. Finished in 3rd place. Slightly gutting as 2nd qualified for Festival of Horse Finals Still, pleased with improvement in the dressage.
Onto Sunday. We did BE92 first, followed 15mins later by BE102. I was pleased with both tests - he was attentive and submissive and obedient - all things we've been missing in the past! We managed to score 29 for both - really really hope we can keep that up this season - I could really do with getting some sub 30 dressage scores in our quest for Regionals. All 7's and 8's and in the 102 judge said I "made it look SO EASY" and gave me an 8 for my riding - well chuffed! We were 2nd after dressage in the 92 out of 31!!!! And 6th out of 17 in the 102.
http://youtu.be/otqkfDOd-tk
http://youtu.be/4GmMqRG0_-0
Onto the jumping. He warmed up nicely and went into the 90 jumping and jumped a lovely clear - focused on thinking forwards and not seeing any nasty backwards strides and a nice flowing course in a big arena really helped with that. So that meant we finished 2nd overall in that big class so very pleased with that.
Had a bit of waiting around before could jump the 100 but stayed on board and walked him around - bad idea in hindsight. Should have put him away for a break then got him back out as he totally tuned out and then started napping badly when asked to go near the ring which is a habit of his that recurs in certain circumstances. He warmed up well though. However, the course was identical to the one that had caught me out the day before and contained all the nasty right hand turns except now it was 15cm higher! He backed off the first fence, chucked in a short one and had that down and I think it upset him for the rest of the round - he doesn't like knocking fences. He launched over number 2, flew number 3 but then again fluffed the dogleg to a now humongous oxer at number 4 which he put down on the back bar, made it round to the planks but then totally missed the turn to the related distance, got in too close and landed on the back bar again. Cleared 6 but again in too close at 7 and took it out behind before flying the final double. 16 faults - terrible! I've only ever once had 8 faults on him and never more - he is such a clean jumper. He didn't feel tired, I think he'd just mentally switched off and plastic poles fall so easily. He knows he's an eventer - 2 dressage tests and 2 SJ rounds is just not right! So, trying to put that behind me as we have T/down on Sunday and I really want a nice confident first outing before doing the 100 at Munstead end of March and then the 100 at Goring. Hopefully we can master jumping 100 SJ again before then - got a couple of lessons lined up but have jumped that height no probs recently so think perhaps just a bit much this weekend.
One little pic of fence 3 in the 100 - rubbish quality as a still but all the other pics are pro pics so cant post them.
90 jumping:
http://youtu.be/2MpCFkSw444
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