This weekend Seb and I competed at our home pony club one day event at Norton Disney in the PC100.
Mum and I started the day by setting up Hykeham PCSO for them to microchip people’s tack; from the sound of the feedback they tagged quite a few saddles! It is a great initiative, that will hopefully deter anyone from stealing tack or if it is stolen it will definitely help to return it to its rightful owner. We then walked the course which was beautifully presented and made me very excited to get back later for the real thing! We then went back home, plaited and loaded the lorry ,had some lunch and set off. On arrival mum and I set to our jobs, she gets Seb out the back and starts to tack up, while I go get my number and get myself ready. Surprisingly to us we were quite short on time, meaning that my warm up for dressage wasn’t the longest, however Seb felt very loose and relaxed. We went into our test relatively calm and produced some nice movements. Unfortunately Seb got slightly distracted at the sight of some sheep in the field next to our arena (sheep are his worst nightmare!!). This meant he went slightly tense resulting in our marks dropping, however I was still pleased with a score of 33.8%. Show jumping was a nice course; it included one interesting line which I had been watching throughout the day as well as a couple of places where time could be lost. When I walked the course I found a lovely stride pattern which would mean that I would meet this weird line on a really nice stride. Seb warmed up really nicely, meeting most fences spot on. Over the winter a lot of trainers have been telling me that I really need to get him into a forward canter before I start my round, with this in mind I tried to move his canter up a gear and still try to keep him contained as he hasn’t really jumped since Lincoln in March. Seb jumped foot perfectly through the whole course! He was really adjustable and took me into every fence; it was a great moment where both me and Seb were 100% on the same wavelength, allowing each other to work effectively allowing us to achieve a clear with no time penalties. Cross country, as always he was a machine taking every fence in his stride and literally skipping around the course! He made absolutely nothing of every fence even though his last run and look at a cross country fence was over a month ago! We made it home clear, within the time to finish on our dressage score to place a fabulous 4th and 2nd best Blankney! Very proud of Seb and I this weekend, yet again he shows what a class little horse he is!
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