What a week, on Friday 4 boxes arrived for us from Blue Chip - how exciting! Chloe filmed me opening everything and when my Mum watched it she said I looked like a little girl again on Christmas morning. I was overwhelmed by how much Blue Chip kindly sent up, saddle cloths, rugs, jackets, fleece, polo shirt, cap and headband! Completely spoilt. Corky and Lucas will also be starting on their new concentrate daily balancer and join supplement. I have lots of literature and samples to share too.
The boys have also both been out in action. Last Sunday our super eventing groom (and friend!) Bella stepped in to help me take them both to the BS at Blueridge. Lucas is really getting more confident, another lovely DC in the 70 into class. I'm taking him over to David Harland tomorrow night so start to build up the height a bit.....watch this space for videos of me flying over jumps without Lucas! Corky was a bit of a stress head as he isn't great when another horse comes too - he did settle in the end and jumped a nice round in the 85/95 with only one pole dropping due to getting a bit flat and fast. Lovely photos from Adrian Sinclair photography.
This week saw Corky out at Rockrose both days. One dressage test on Sat and one round of jumping at the arena eventing on Sunday. The dressage was quite good, super warm up and then a slight lose of concentration in the test due to the judge noticing that my flash strap wasn't on properly - oops! She kindly came and fixed it for us but by then we were both out of the zone and Corky wasn't for getting back into it! We still scored a 63.4% for 5th so not a total disaster!
On Sunday I managed to arrive early, walk the course, chat to friends, oil hoofs, brush out mane and tail......and then almost missed my class! I'm not sure what was going on with my time keeping as I am normally super organised. It meant we only had time for a 5 min warn up so took unfortunately fences in both the SJ and XC phase. Corky was very brave and jumped everything though including the world's skinniest skinny which was causing problems for some of the more experienced horses. One to put down to experience and not dwell on as I know if I had a proper warm up and wasn't rushing it would have gone better.
We only have one arena eventing left before the season starts - it's in March and is out at the Royal Highland Showground which should be exciting. Then it's onto XC schooling, a few HTs then the eventing season starts - woohoo!
On Sunday I managed to arrive early, walk the course, chat to friends, oil hoofs, brush out mane and tail......and then almost missed my class! I'm not sure what was going on with my time keeping as I am normally super organised. It meant we only had time for a 5 min warn up so took unfortunately fences in both the SJ and XC phase. Corky was very brave and jumped everything though including the world's skinniest skinny which was causing problems for some of the more experienced horses. One to put down to experience and not dwell on as I know if I had a proper warm up and wasn't rushing it would have gone better.
We only have one arena eventing left before the season starts - it's in March and is out at the Royal Highland Showground which should be exciting. Then it's onto XC schooling, a few HTs then the eventing season starts - woohoo!
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