Did the wine help?

So, as the hardworking and committed athlete I am, I prepared for Sunday's show jumping with a Saturday night full of wine. Safe to say I was not feeling the best on Sunday morning. I managed to pull myself together and headed down to Rockrose. The weather was horrific - wind and rain but we braved it. The warm up arena was lovely - great size and surface. The only drawback was it was outdoors.

I had decided (after watching the Di Lampard demo on Friday evening) to take new approach. Corky is little and I keep killing the canter by fighting with him to slow him down. I decided to just kick on and ride the canter how he wanted to go. I still used the half halt before each corner but kept my leg on, a soft hand and tried to sit up nice and tall, not anticipating the jump.

Apart from feeling like I may be sick half way round, I was super pleased with our round. It was a full up 90 and we only took one pole. There were lots of related distances which we usually struggle with but riding the forward canter and making sure we landed on the correct leg seemed to work.

We were entered into the 100 class but as he had gone so well (and I wasn't feeling 100%) I decided to withdraw and end on a good note.

Here is a video of the round courtesy of my equally hungover flatmate Lee :-)