Allerton Park
We had the whole weekend at Allerton Park in Yorkshire, Saturday with Louis (Kellys Lad) in the BE100 and Sunday for the Intermediate Novice with Donnermere. We were hoping Louis would do a better cross country round after Hendersyde Park with his green moment at the coffin, and he has been over to Heidi Woodhead's for two training sessions dealing primarily with steps, sunken roads and ditches which are fences he can still be a little babyish with. He went well on his training sessions and his confidence improved lots.
When we walked the course at Allerton they had built a new sunken road on the BE100, so it was time to test the training! He started with a fairly good dressage test and was given 37.0, which was a good score in that section. As usual, he did a lovely clear in the showjumping. His cross country was lovely, and he felt the most established at this level that he has so far, he did the sunken road beautifully and finished with just 0.8 time faults. He finished 4th overall in his section, which was a great result!!!
We were back early the next morning with Donnermere. He had his dressage really early, but unfortunately when I went to get on him I realised that I did not have my boots with me. Anyway, after a quick call home, my dad brought them up to Allerton where they arrived only when the horse in front of me was doing its test, and they could not manage to move me in the section. So with no warm up I went in to do my test and I can't say it was one of our best ones! He was a little tense and the sitting trot wasn't helping matters either! Anyway, somehow he got a score of 40.5, so not as bad as I was expecting. The showjumping was a fairly ok round and he just had one down. His cross country was amazing though and he flew round well within the time and feeling amazing. Needless to say he was out of the placings that day.
I wore a hat-cam at Allerton on Louis that weekend and I will upload the video on to my website and facebook page asap.
Kelsall Hill (2)
We went up to Kelsall Hill for the weekend, it was to be Louis last event of the season in the BE100 regional finals and we decided to enter Beanie for one more run before Weston Park CCI* as we wanted another practice of a dressage test!
Beanie was first to go, and we have had a couple of dressage training sessions with Rachael Lupton since Allerton and he was starting to feel more supple and connected. He performed the best test of the season so far scoring 29.5, which was the best score in the section. I was really pleased with him as he really tried hard. His showjumping was a faultless and lovely round and he had nothing to add. He bounded round the cross country finding it really easy and finishing with 0.8 reverse time faults and coming 1st in his section!!!!!! It was a great result for him as he had come so close to winning a few times this season, but it had not quite happened until now. He now has moved into Intermediate points.
Louis was next to go and he didn't perform as well as usual in the dressage phase as he spent the time whinnying at mums horse who was doing dressage at the same time as him in the next arena! He was given 38.5 which was probably a fair score. He did a lovely double clear to finish on his dressage score, but unfortunately did not qualify for Badminton Grassroots Championships. Thats him finished now for the season and will have some well deserved time off in the field relaxing before preparing for next year.
Last event of the year for Beanie next which will be the British U18 Championships CCI* at Weston Park, I will blog and let you know how it went!
Phoebe Powell and the
Eventing Team
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