Icon 8th at Pontsipool

Left at 5.30 am this morning to get to Pontsipool in time to walk the course etc before dressage. Icon went very well to score a 34, his best ever at this level. I made a mess of a related distance in the Show Jumping and had one down, Icon always does related distances on a extra stride so a 4 stride distance would be 5 for him, but I tried to go on 4 and had him too far off a 1.20 parallel, he tried with every bone in his body to clear it but his hind feet clunked it.

He then flew round XC clear, it was easy although as I went pretty fast he got tierd 3/4 of the way round. A rethink about his feeding needed, so I will add an energy mix to his high fibre nuts.

We finished 8th so a good day and I was home in time to ride Top Gun. I am getting excited about the Lycetts Young Horse Champs and counting down the days, I have even worked out a show and training plan for them.

John Wayne and I escorted my sponsors son Daniel and his friend Declan on their ponies round the common yesterday. We had a race JW won, and we had fun jumping gorse bushes, streams and ditches.
All good training for the Champs!