Friday, March 9, 2012
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Bungendore Show 2012
On the last weekend of January, I headed off to Bungendore Show. This is the largest agricultural show in the Canberra region and always has a large number of entrants each year.
I used this competition as a warm up for the Royal Canberra Show a month later.
I had entered 5 classes in total, as this show included a 2 ring circus which allows riders to have a second go at each of their classes in order to try and achieve a higher result.
My first class for the day was our Open Show Hunter over 16hh. The competition in this class was strong and we ended up with a well deserved 3rd place.
Our second class for the day was the Lady’s Hunter. We worked much more consistently in this workout and placed 2nd.
Next up was my rider class. I often pass on the rider class, as my dressage/jumping seat often doesn’t fair too well against the show riders, however I came away from this class with another 3rd place.
Due to the heat on the day, I decided to call it quits and head home. We had a fantastic day, and I felt that there was no need to continue any further.
There are some pictures on my facebook page for those that are interested. I will upload some when my PC decides to co-operate!
Next up is Canberra Royal. Watch this space!
Friday, January 27, 2012
Paris schooling 2012
This is the first time Paris has really jumped since our last event in November of last year. She's a little lazy, an does take down a rail courtesy of the long grass in the jumping paddock.. However, very happy with her! Need to get back into my jumping lessons again to further our showjumping education even more!
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
2012!
Wow- How time flys! Its been a while since I last posted!
Paris hasnt done a huge amount of competing since my last post due to a some unexpected Gastric Ulcers, a paddock injury whilst I was overseas on holidays in September, a house move and then of course, Christmas gets in the way!
We have a very full on schedule in the next few weeks which include LOTS of Hacking events.
I have a small breed society show this weekend, a large Agricultural show the following weekend, Showjumping the first weekend of February, then a small break until The Royal Canberra Show on the last weekend of February.
I have entered Paris into the Working Hunter classes at the Royal which should be very fun and something a little different for her. In preperation for the royal, I attended a clinic on the weekend with an International Show/Working Hunter judge. She was a large bag of knowledge and had many things to say about each of the horses at the clinic. The feedback we received was pleasing, with her last comment to me being that if she was judging the horses from the clinic, I would be her Champion. Apparently Paris's bold, clean jumping style, manners and paces would make for a very lovely Hunter indeed.
I am waiting on videos and pictures from the weekend, so I will be sure to post them once they arrive.
Paris hasnt done a huge amount of competing since my last post due to a some unexpected Gastric Ulcers, a paddock injury whilst I was overseas on holidays in September, a house move and then of course, Christmas gets in the way!
We have a very full on schedule in the next few weeks which include LOTS of Hacking events.
I have a small breed society show this weekend, a large Agricultural show the following weekend, Showjumping the first weekend of February, then a small break until The Royal Canberra Show on the last weekend of February.
I have entered Paris into the Working Hunter classes at the Royal which should be very fun and something a little different for her. In preperation for the royal, I attended a clinic on the weekend with an International Show/Working Hunter judge. She was a large bag of knowledge and had many things to say about each of the horses at the clinic. The feedback we received was pleasing, with her last comment to me being that if she was judging the horses from the clinic, I would be her Champion. Apparently Paris's bold, clean jumping style, manners and paces would make for a very lovely Hunter indeed.
I am waiting on videos and pictures from the weekend, so I will be sure to post them once they arrive.
Posing as she does best :)
Rudely woke her during her midday snooze.. Had every intention of taking her for a ride, however she had no intention of getting up. Infact, she lay flat on her side in protest!
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Berrima International One Day Event 2nd/3rd July 2011
On the weekend of the 2nd and 3rd of July, I attended the Berrima International One Day event.
This was a large event with around 300 entries.The weather for the weekend itself was great, but unfortunately the week leading up to the event had seen large down pours of rain, causing parts of the XC course to become waterlogged and unrideable in parts. This meant that the course had to be altered for all grades early on Saturday morning.
Fortunately, the dressage arenas and SJ arena had remained dry enough that we didnt slide around too much.
Im proud to say, that we achieved, our BEST open competition dressage result! Woo hoo!
We have been having a stack of lessons with a new coach and things are starting to become MUCH easier for both of us. This means that we had a very consistant dressage test! Scoring mainly 6's and 7's with an 8 for my long rein walk! We had no arguments during the test which is unusual for Paris- but very pleasing. We ended up placing 15th out of 30 with a score of 62%!!! Yay for Paris!
We then continued on to do a very smooth, clear SJ round!!
After showjumping we jumped up into 9th place sitting on our dressage score!
Sunday saw us 6th on course for XC. Paris was a little legend and cruised around with nothing a bother. We managed to get a semi normal entrance into the water, with minimal argument about getting her toes wet.
Unfortunately, I put the wrong XC time into my watch, which saw me come in 18 seconds faster than the minimum time (Which I thought was the optimum..) Therefore incurring 7.2 time penalties and dropping into 12th place. Very dissapointing on my behalf, as we are generally pretty good at going clear on our XC time, which would have seen me sitting around 5th place!!
But we live and learn dont we?
We have two more Introductory starts for this year, then we will up to Preliminary for the Canberra event in September. Im very optimistic!
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This was a large event with around 300 entries.The weather for the weekend itself was great, but unfortunately the week leading up to the event had seen large down pours of rain, causing parts of the XC course to become waterlogged and unrideable in parts. This meant that the course had to be altered for all grades early on Saturday morning.
Fortunately, the dressage arenas and SJ arena had remained dry enough that we didnt slide around too much.
Im proud to say, that we achieved, our BEST open competition dressage result! Woo hoo!
We have been having a stack of lessons with a new coach and things are starting to become MUCH easier for both of us. This means that we had a very consistant dressage test! Scoring mainly 6's and 7's with an 8 for my long rein walk! We had no arguments during the test which is unusual for Paris- but very pleasing. We ended up placing 15th out of 30 with a score of 62%!!! Yay for Paris!
We then continued on to do a very smooth, clear SJ round!!
After showjumping we jumped up into 9th place sitting on our dressage score!
Sunday saw us 6th on course for XC. Paris was a little legend and cruised around with nothing a bother. We managed to get a semi normal entrance into the water, with minimal argument about getting her toes wet.
Unfortunately, I put the wrong XC time into my watch, which saw me come in 18 seconds faster than the minimum time (Which I thought was the optimum..) Therefore incurring 7.2 time penalties and dropping into 12th place. Very dissapointing on my behalf, as we are generally pretty good at going clear on our XC time, which would have seen me sitting around 5th place!!
But we live and learn dont we?
We have two more Introductory starts for this year, then we will up to Preliminary for the Canberra event in September. Im very optimistic!
Murrumbateman SJ Festival 11th/12th of June 2011
Wow- Its been a while since I updated..
On the weekend of the 11th and 12th of June, Paris and I headed down to my Pony club for the biggest showjumping event in our zone. The is a state qualifying event, so there was people from all over NSW as well as Canberra there.
This was my first B grade competition on Paris and we kicked butt!
The competition went over 2 days with 7 seperate SJ events over the weekend.
We placed as follows;
4th Equitation
3rd AM2
2nd 6 bar
2nd Topscore
4th Grand Prix
2nd Derby (Mixture of XC and showjumps- very hunter horse type thing)
The 7th event was a rescue relay, which is where you team up with a friend and you have to try and complete 2 showjumping rounds between the 2 of you in under 2 minutes. If I knock a rail my partner has to be ready to jump the next jump in my place. If I have a stop, my partner has to take over from the jump I stopped at. This is all for fun, but is all about strategy! Tell you what, it was very hard to wipe the smile off my face for the rest of the day after this round!
Anywho, we ended up placing second over all for B grade Saturday and Sunday! Which was a great feat for both of us at our first B grade comp!!
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Im going to add this picture just because I love it!! This is from a clinic at my pony club with Trevor Morris. This particular lesson was a huge turning point in our jump training!
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On the weekend of the 11th and 12th of June, Paris and I headed down to my Pony club for the biggest showjumping event in our zone. The is a state qualifying event, so there was people from all over NSW as well as Canberra there.
This was my first B grade competition on Paris and we kicked butt!
The competition went over 2 days with 7 seperate SJ events over the weekend.
We placed as follows;
4th Equitation
3rd AM2
2nd 6 bar
2nd Topscore
4th Grand Prix
2nd Derby (Mixture of XC and showjumps- very hunter horse type thing)
The 7th event was a rescue relay, which is where you team up with a friend and you have to try and complete 2 showjumping rounds between the 2 of you in under 2 minutes. If I knock a rail my partner has to be ready to jump the next jump in my place. If I have a stop, my partner has to take over from the jump I stopped at. This is all for fun, but is all about strategy! Tell you what, it was very hard to wipe the smile off my face for the rest of the day after this round!
Anywho, we ended up placing second over all for B grade Saturday and Sunday! Which was a great feat for both of us at our first B grade comp!!
Im going to add this picture just because I love it!! This is from a clinic at my pony club with Trevor Morris. This particular lesson was a huge turning point in our jump training!
Monday, May 16, 2011
Canberra ODE 14th-15th May 2011
WOW! What a weekend!
It was great to finally have some Team ESB support for a change! Due to me being the only ESB competitor along the NSW east coast, I am normally the only one to be out and representing the ESB name!
However, this competition saw me surrounded by other ESB's :)
I had the pleasure of meeting Jill Lockhart and the beautiful Gamble and also Hinnerk Hueppe with Spell and Day. Spell is a full sister to Paris, and they look very similar! It was interesting having so many people asking who the man is riding Paris!! Was also interesting to watch how similar, and different she is to Paris in the way that she moves and jumps! She seems to be more like Strum (also a full sister, owned by a very good friend)
Anywho, Paris went soo well in all phases! Her dressage was amazing in parts, we just need to work on consistancy! Time to start looking for a new coach I think!
Our showjumping was super! We are now jumping in the snaffle full time, and its making the world of diffrence! I find her dropping less in the front end, and less in the shoulder on turns. Weird I know, but its working well, so I'll just leave it alone! We Went clear both jumping and time in the Showjumping which was great!
Our cross country was also just amazing! I just love my horse to bits!
Unfortunately, we were stuck behind a very novice horse, who continued to have numerous stops in front of me, without judge interferance.. Finally, after a yelled "horse coming through", she decided to move out of my line! The only good part about this, was that I got to let Paris have a really nice gallop to make up time! Which normally you dont get to do in the intro, especially with a big striding horse. We ended up going a little to fast, incurring 1.2 time penalties!
We ended up placing 7th, which was just super! Hopefully, next comp will be top 5!
Anywho, I couldn't be prouder of her anyway! Hopefully we will be ready to go onto our first Preliminary course by September's Canberra International Event.
We have a big Showjumping competition on the weekend of the 11th-12th June with Pony Club, so it will be interesting to see how she goes with a whole weekend of jumping B grade (Grade 2, Prelim height)
It was great to finally have some Team ESB support for a change! Due to me being the only ESB competitor along the NSW east coast, I am normally the only one to be out and representing the ESB name!
However, this competition saw me surrounded by other ESB's :)
I had the pleasure of meeting Jill Lockhart and the beautiful Gamble and also Hinnerk Hueppe with Spell and Day. Spell is a full sister to Paris, and they look very similar! It was interesting having so many people asking who the man is riding Paris!! Was also interesting to watch how similar, and different she is to Paris in the way that she moves and jumps! She seems to be more like Strum (also a full sister, owned by a very good friend)
Anywho, Paris went soo well in all phases! Her dressage was amazing in parts, we just need to work on consistancy! Time to start looking for a new coach I think!
Our showjumping was super! We are now jumping in the snaffle full time, and its making the world of diffrence! I find her dropping less in the front end, and less in the shoulder on turns. Weird I know, but its working well, so I'll just leave it alone! We Went clear both jumping and time in the Showjumping which was great!
Our cross country was also just amazing! I just love my horse to bits!
Unfortunately, we were stuck behind a very novice horse, who continued to have numerous stops in front of me, without judge interferance.. Finally, after a yelled "horse coming through", she decided to move out of my line! The only good part about this, was that I got to let Paris have a really nice gallop to make up time! Which normally you dont get to do in the intro, especially with a big striding horse. We ended up going a little to fast, incurring 1.2 time penalties!
We ended up placing 7th, which was just super! Hopefully, next comp will be top 5!
Anywho, I couldn't be prouder of her anyway! Hopefully we will be ready to go onto our first Preliminary course by September's Canberra International Event.
We have a big Showjumping competition on the weekend of the 11th-12th June with Pony Club, so it will be interesting to see how she goes with a whole weekend of jumping B grade (Grade 2, Prelim height)
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