This was a completely new competition to us and I felt quite nervous as Jeremy was 1st to go. Our friend Ian Coles kindly came along to help us, we had been to practise the jumping bit at Ian's arena a few days before.
There were 10 fact sheets to read before the day and a video to watch, the rules were slightly different to normal showing, things like they wanted the horse stood with left fore forward and left hind back, leaders had to be dressed in white and we were allowed several helpers in the ring as the horses were to be shown loose in all 4 paces, turns and then jumping too.
I found some white trousers and packed them but that was my first calamity, when I changed at the event they turned out to be a pair of Ants trousers and were about 4 sizes too big, a stirrup leather as a belt saved them from falling down but I must have looked a bit odd!
Feeling very unprofessional I presented Jeremy to the vet. Here he scored an elite score of 8.75 and a 9 things were looking good.
Jeremy behaved beautifully in the main arena. The arena looked stunning as it was all poshed up for the 3* eventing in a few days time. He went lovely in hand and loose, even showing a fab gallop for a really high score, he jumped super, really bold and keen to jump.
He lost a few marks for knocking a pole on his last go up the grid but still scored a 1st, he had some fab comments from the evaluation judges and we came home with a lovely first rosette.
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Well Done!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Lotta, do u have a new mobile number u can email me please?
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