Not the best of days at Carlton BE80 (28th June)... Woody did a fab dressage of 32% which left us 5th. He coped really well with the hard ground and greasy grass to get us a respectable score. Then we had a 2hour wait until showjumping so me and my parents went to walk both courses. The cross country was a lovely flowing course with a lot of room between fences and nice rolling hills that would give a good workout! The showjumping course was nice, a few oxers down hill that you had to watch and they obviously put it on a slight hill to cause problems!! Woody warmed up perfectly for our showjumping, popping every fence and hitting every stride... But that was a different story when we got in the arena. We have had some showjumping issues in the past and I thought that this time we were going to nail it, with me remembering everything my showjumping coach had told me we set to the first fence. After having 3 refusals, only managing to get to the 4th fence, we were eliminated... After a long travel home we thought of all the things that could have gone wrong and what could have been the matter... We have come to the conclusion that me and Woody haven't got a lot of confidence showjumping, so our new mission is to beat those demons 👹 Defiantly not the result I was hoping for but onwards and upwards we are now going to go to have some fun showjumping and for us both to get our confidence back!!
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Woody was fab at Pony Club Dressage! Scoring a 63.33% in the Novice Eventing Test 2013 and a 70.32% in the Introductory 2007. After not feeling we had done as well as we could of in the first test we took Seb's place (as he couldn't go) in the introductory, and I'm glad we did! I changed a few things to help us get a better mark and I definitely worked as we pulled out a 70.32%!! We won the first class and got a very good mark in the second, but didn't stay to the end, as I went HC to give the younger riders a chance! Very pleased with Woody today and looking forward to Carlton BE80+, hopefully our last 80cm 🙏 as we are trying to get in the area team for eventing!! How exciting my first website and blog post! Hopefully I will be blogging all my events and things me and the team get up to! I will let you know via Instagram If I have published a new blog post, so look out!! |