The good news is that Louis' bruising has healed well and he is back in full work, but both events he was due to run in were both cancelled so as of yet he has not evented since his 1*. He has been re-registered with British Showjumping and has jumped well getting some more double clears in Newcomers, we have upgraded his bit in this phase as he has become too keen and won't always come back in related distances and this has made him much easier to ride. He has cross country schooled and despite being really excited, jumped amazing! His next event will be Aston Le Walls on 10th August and then hopefully the INu21 at Somerford Park. He has been out to dressage too, getting a 1st and a 2nd.
Cairngorm (George) has managed to have two BE runs since I last blogged. His first was Burgham, which is a fairly stiff BE100 test. and entered in the 5yo section. He performed an amazing dressage test to score 27.5 which we were really chuffed with as he kept good concentration and tried really hard; his showjumping was fairly good, although lacked a little attention as he was too busy staring at the people and tradestands around the arena, so he has the first fence down but jumped beautifully around the rest of the fences. I was pleased with his cross country as I felt he was a little green for the course, but he coped well just having a run out at the third from last fence which was a corner through a gateway with a big bale of very bright, green shavings on the top which were obviously going to eat him as he jumped through the gap, so although he was unplaced I was very pleased with him!
His next trip out was Thornton Watlass where we got a great double clear from George and a fifth placing with a 36.5 dressage which did lack a little concentration!! His next event will be the 5yo class at Richmond. George has also started going to British Showjumping where he has got double clears in British Novice and Discovery. He has finished all his BYEH qualifiers unfortunately not managing to qualify for the finals at Burghley, which is a shame as he is a lovely young horse and just the type to do well in these classes.
Teddy is still being retrained and has progressed considerably since I last blogged. He is cross country schooling quietly and staying nice and calm and has been placed regularly in showjumping. He is doing another unaffiliated ODE in a couple of weeks and taking him on a trip to Thornton Watlass BE event to be worked in the warm up has made him more settled and relaxed in the atmosphere.
Boysie, my little grey Connemara is coming along nicely, but we have decided to put him up for sale as I dont really have enough time to devote to another youngster this season, hopefully he will go to a lovely home.
Anyway, fingers crossed I may have an event to go to soon and im sure im not the only one to be praying for dry weather! Until next time....
Phoebe Powell
Boysie- XC Schooling NEC July 2012
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