Had a fab day at Solihull today. Hartpury Twilight 2nd in the 90 and he had just one rail down in the jump off in the 1m. He's a bit speedy, careful and very keen, hope he stays like that for XC. Jump offs BSJA usually go up 5-10 cm from the first round, today's 1m jump off was a decent 1.10 so it's encouraging Twilight is already very confident at BE novice show jumping height.
Hartpury Take It 2 The Top finished 2nd in the 1m, he felt absolutely amazing, he is loving jumping against the clock. It's not only lots of fun for us both but it's engaging his hocks and sharpening up his jump, he can be lazy and get very unbalanced show jumping, especially on related distances. But there was none of that today. He then jumped really well in the 1.10 which led on to a 1.20 jump off, it looked huge (I am rusty to jumping that big) but luckily on him it felt easy, still had 2 down though, one rider error and one when he jumped too big into the double and tipped the upright on the way out.
Both brothers have an enormous stride and collecting the stride to a normal horses distance is not natural for them. Twilight easily put 3 strides in a 4 stride distance today and it felt perfectly easy and natural. Will need to work on that to have all the required gears for XC riding.
There were already a fair few Eventers out with their string of horses, it was fab to see Louise Harwood out on her 4* horses Bit Of A Barney and Mr Potts. Fingers crossed Potts is heading for Badminton this year.
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