Monday, March 28, 2011

Albury One Day Event 2011

Paris and I headed off to the Albury event on Friday 25th March 2011.
All the Introductory events were due to be held on the Saturday due to the high number of entries in the competition.

We had a great competition considering a lack of preparation due to Paris getting a deep foot abbcess two weeks earlier!

Paris pulled out a ripper of a test with some very calm and consistent elements to the ride. However, the judge believed that we were lacking forward, which placed us mid feild.

Our showjumping was HUGE! I have been jumping some big stuff at home, but not a whole course of jumps so wide! The oxers stayed the same width for Preliminary and Introductory. The were very WIDE!
Anywho, she cruized around with not a problem at all and managed to go clear with no time penalties!


The cross country was next and WOW! I love my horse! Whilst everyone elses horses were jumping around silly, Paris fell asleep in the start box whilst the countdown man cuddled her! Very cute!
We had a great XC round, except for a very silly stop! It was a jump up, hook right and jump down. In order to avoid jumping straight off the other side of the hill into a dam, I decided to bring her back to a trot just before we jumped up the hill. This was a very silly mistake, as we lost our foward movement and she stopped. There was no dirt from Paris, just a silly rider error! It was very surreal, as I havent had a stop on XC before, and I almost didnt realise we had a stop. I just kept on pushing for her to get over but then my brain switched back on and realised we were wasting time!!
Luckily, there was a long, open flat space to follow these two efforts, so we opened up for a real gallop and made up time!

We ended up finishing in 19th place, which is a bit dissapointing, but Im still VERY proud of her!




We have a busy few weeks planned! Unfortunately, I missed the entries for the Berrima event in April, but I will bea heading to the Yass Show instead to do some open hunter classes! We have a show this weekend, next weekend and dressage the weekend after!

Very busy indeed!

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

A good season starts early..

Paris and I have a had a bit of success in the last few weeks :)

Last Monday (7.3.11), we attended a Twilight competition at a local riding centre.
This particular competition involved Dressage only- with showjumping to follow the next week.

We entered two tests- the 1A and the 2A.

We won our Prelim test with a great score of 70%. The most pleasing about this test was the consistency shown throughout which is something we have previously struggled with. We finished our Novice test with a score of 66% to land us in second place! Very proud of her!

Yesterday (14.3.11), we attended the twilight jumping competition. We only entered the 90cms as I felt that it would be unfair to enter in the 60cm class.
We went clear which was great! The competiton was fastest time, but due to the size of the arena we couldnt exactly "stretch" our legs. However, we got through the course in great time! We were nice and forward and barely hit ANY long spots! Yay!

We are heading to the Moss Vale show this weekend to get out and about in the Hunter classes!
Then off to Albury ODE the following weekend!

BUSY BUSY :)