Warmed up really thinking about getting him forwards and really taking me to the fences. I think I may have forgotten a bit about connection but was happy that at least he was taking me forwards. There wasn't anyone to put a x pole for us so made sure to ride super forwards to the upright and it was fine. Went in to our round and he was really flying, the distances were actually coming up short, he did the seriously angled double really well but made up too much distance so took the 2nd part down. He then did the corner brillantly followed by skinny brush and then I kicked on too much and pulled round the left hand bend too much rather than sitting up and using my outside aids and the little monkey just sailed merrily past the skinny brush rolltop. He knew I was aiming at it, was on a good stride and just cocked his jaw and past we went. Grrrrr. We weren't in for a placing anyway due to pole down but just very frustrating for him to do that. Still a good reminder he has that in him!
Hour break while they rearranged the course. We now had the angled house to corner instead of skinny, they took out the seriously angled double and we had a 2 stride double of skinny to the rolltop brush. I think it was a nicer course to be honest! Made sure to really wake him up in the warmup and he felt really up for it. Put ourselves out of contention early on though by making up too much ground between the first 2 show jumps then having to chip in the 8th stride so took it out in front - grrrr. We then also had the first part of the skinny double down as I was really keen to get him straight and well set up and he just wanted to attack it so ran into the base of it. So, another 8 faults. Not doing great on the 100 Championship league at the moment - 3 comps and 8 faults in all. Next stop Wellington again at end of March.
No comments:
Post a Comment