After concentrating on Lucas for the last few weekends, super pony Corky was back out in action this week and he really was super!

We had a real breakthrough in our flatwork lesson last week so have been feeling good about our schooling. We headed to SNEC to ride two prelim tests on Saturday - P14 and P17. We had a set plan for our warm up which seemed to go well and so did P14, probably the same standard as RockRose the other week but not as consistent a contact as we have at home. Tammy who had come along to help suggested really working on our transitions to make him really listen to me in the warm up before P17, we did lots of walk to canter and serpentines. They made a massive difference and the test went amazingly! Our scores were 63.13% for 7th in P14 and a fantastic 66.74% in P17 for 3rd!!

Feel like we are really making progress and know we still have a little bit more to give which is exciting.

Tomorrow both boys are off to jumps a round each at Howe - bit of fun for Corky after working so hard today.

On Saturday morning I headed over to Fife for some unaffiliated show jumping at Howe, or Dabbs as I still want to cal it. It is a venue I use to compete at when I was younger and lived over in Fife.

I competed Corky there earlier in the year at the Arena Eventing. The main ring is lovely but the warm up was extremely small so I gave it a miss after that. They have now doubled the size of the warm up so it's back on my list of favorite venues.

Lucas behaved extremely well in both the warm up and the main ring. He was nice and rhythmical in the 65cm class taking one pole and then a little wilder (through keenness to go forward) in the 75cm taking 2 poles. I don't think that matters just now though as he is taking me to the jumps, having fun and building confidence.

I also have the most fantastically funny photo curtesy of Sinclair Photography - Lucas has the most hilarious look on his face!

As everyone knows poor Lucas was injured in a field accident summer 2013, after 2 years of rest and rehab this week saw him make is Show Jumping come back!

We jumped a massive 60 and 70 cm class at a BS club show at Rockrose - got to start somewhere though!

He was a wee superstar, I was feeling horrible after picking up a stomach bug but was over the worse of it so decided to still go. I think Lucas must have felt sorry for me as he jumped the smoothest round in the 60cm which as you can see from our practice sessions is not like him! He was double clear and wonderfully picked up 2nd place. It was the smallest class we had ever jumped (even pre-injury) but I think it's right to start him small and build up confidence.

He got a littler wilder in the 70cm and I felt slightly sicker which wasn't a good combination. He only took one pole but he did reintroduce the crazy stage leaping which is not particularly desirable while getting over a stomach bug!

All in all I was super pleased with him. Jim Hunter was kindly taking photos so I will buy a couple and add them to this post.

Corky is also pleased Lucas is back in action as he enjoyed a show free weekend, generally eating, sleeping and covering himself in mud playing in the field. Happy boy!