Tumpy Green ODE
Aug. 20th, 2020 05:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jpgsawyerSo I didn't really write the script this way but Bill The Horse had a different plan.
Right out of the box I want to send a massive thank you to Sophie Seymour Equestrian who made today happen. It was so so kind of you and well beyond what we agreed so I am very blessed and also to Helen Sinar for letting me take your Precious Bill out to play.
So first thing Sophie made Bill look extremely handsome in his plaited magnificence and made loading him up look easy.
After we got there and got him tacked up and me dressed we headed out to dressage. It wasn't brilliant as Mr B was very overfaced with the situation and just wouldn't settle. Sophie wonderfully videoed the test here and yes folk she is right I might have been eliminated here. We may never know because I didn't go get my dressage sheet due to later events.
Then we went on a great course walk which Sophie usefully plotted out where we should go in the Cross Country Phase and then let me watch the Show jumping to learn the course. This way round was a bit new to me because at the ODEs I had done before there wasn't time.
Still it was now time for a little lunch and to try to forget the dressage.
After a bit we figured out they were running early and so we could easily do our show jumping now so we warmed up which actually wasn't too bad. We had one stop but that was because I was an idiot and didn't present Mr B correctly or with any impulsion but otherwise it was quite nice. The show jumping phase sadly wasn't quite so good.
Going into the turn for jump 3 he got distracted by the hedgeline and I couldn't keep him going and then between jump 4 and 5 I slowed to make sure I was on the right leg and never really got him back into jumping gear. We had three more refusals and so again that would be an elimination. I didn't push things at that point and walked him out.
XC was worse... again he warmed up fine jumping most things but as soon as we go into the XC field he put his head up screamed at the top of his lungs and just wouldn't canter properly or jump. I managed a nice trot/canter round the edge of the field but that was about it. Not sure how to fix that but I guess from the fires of defeat we rise again like the Phoenix and learn what went wrong and do our best to make it better. :D
Right out of the box I want to send a massive thank you to Sophie Seymour Equestrian who made today happen. It was so so kind of you and well beyond what we agreed so I am very blessed and also to Helen Sinar for letting me take your Precious Bill out to play.
So first thing Sophie made Bill look extremely handsome in his plaited magnificence and made loading him up look easy.
After we got there and got him tacked up and me dressed we headed out to dressage. It wasn't brilliant as Mr B was very overfaced with the situation and just wouldn't settle. Sophie wonderfully videoed the test here and yes folk she is right I might have been eliminated here. We may never know because I didn't go get my dressage sheet due to later events.
Then we went on a great course walk which Sophie usefully plotted out where we should go in the Cross Country Phase and then let me watch the Show jumping to learn the course. This way round was a bit new to me because at the ODEs I had done before there wasn't time.
Still it was now time for a little lunch and to try to forget the dressage.
After a bit we figured out they were running early and so we could easily do our show jumping now so we warmed up which actually wasn't too bad. We had one stop but that was because I was an idiot and didn't present Mr B correctly or with any impulsion but otherwise it was quite nice. The show jumping phase sadly wasn't quite so good.
Going into the turn for jump 3 he got distracted by the hedgeline and I couldn't keep him going and then between jump 4 and 5 I slowed to make sure I was on the right leg and never really got him back into jumping gear. We had three more refusals and so again that would be an elimination. I didn't push things at that point and walked him out.
XC was worse... again he warmed up fine jumping most things but as soon as we go into the XC field he put his head up screamed at the top of his lungs and just wouldn't canter properly or jump. I managed a nice trot/canter round the edge of the field but that was about it. Not sure how to fix that but I guess from the fires of defeat we rise again like the Phoenix and learn what went wrong and do our best to make it better. :D
