He was unlucky in the dressage as he got the only 10mins of the morning when it was sheeting down with rain, so he was a little unsettled and had his quarters in in most of the canter work. He scored 40, which was not as bad as we thought it may be! He did a poor showjumping round for him, getting a bit strong and not really listening and had 2 fences down. We put it down to the fact that he goes to Richmond to jump fairly frequently and was a bit over confident! He redeemed himself with a fast accurate cross country round within the time. Needless to say, he was out of the placings for the first time since he started doing Novice.
Bishop Burton was next for Louis. He did a slightly tense test and scored 40 again, but cheered us up with a lovely clear in the showjumping arena on Bishop Burton's amazing surface. The cross country was a fair test of the level, but again he flew round stopping the clock on the optimum time exactly! He finished in 8th place and he felt really confident. He has his first 1* next week, so fingers crossed it will go well.
The youngsters are coming along well. George (Cairngorm) was entered for Richmond, but didn't get a run due to the bad weather. He had a run the week after in the unaffilliated at Northallerton around their BE90 course in which he had 1 showjump down and was clear on the cross country. He has now been entered for Skipton and Hutton in the Forest in June and will contest BYEH classes at Bramham (currently on the waitlist) and Yorkshire Sport Horse.
Teddy (Burway) has taken a step back in his training in that now he is much fitter he is finding it quite hard to control his excitement when out with lots of horses. His recent cross country schooling session was interesting in that it was very busy and he just wouldn't settle. Since then though, he has been out showjumping and stayed very calm and produced a double clear. We will have to take it more slowly with him and maybe just play about with him this season until he starts to calm down and take things more in his stride!
We have taken on another 5 year old to produce now. He is a 15.1 roan grey Connemara from Ireland. He has lovely big paces and a super jump and is level headed. He will hopefully do some BE events towards the end of the season. I will put a photo of him on soon.
Anyway, hope you enjoyed reading my blog and keeping up with my progress this season.
Phoebe Powell and the
eventing team.
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