Wellington is a new event replacing Highclere. I only had Persimmon going and he was in the Open Intermediate. It was a lovely new event with three super cross country courses, lovely quite and flat dressage arenas and a show jumping ring that had a three day feel with all the trade stands around it.
Persimmon is on great form at the minute and did a lovely test to score 25.5 and led his section comfortably. The ground in the show jump warm up was a little tacky so I didn't over jump him, he still went in and jumped an imaculate clear and felt very grown up. He then flew round the cross country to finish just inside the optimum time and won his section and his second event in as many weeks!
Monday, 27 August 2012
Milton Keynes
I had Mo Cuiske and Ceylor LAN doing the Novice and Mad About U was doing the BE100Plus.
Mo Cuiske went very well again with further improvement to his relaxation in his dressage and scored a competitive mark of 30. He jumped a lovely double clear, but as the ground was pretty firm and didn't push him cross country so we picked up 10.8 time faults. The cross country caused quite a few problems, so this was all good enough for 4th place.
Ceylor LAN did a lovely test and is improving in his blance all the time, he scored a 28.5 the best test of his section. He then jumped a lovely round in the show jumping and was extremly unlucky to have the very last fence down, the last part of the treble. Again as it was firm and he is such a big youngster I took him very steadily cross country, but he still finished 8th.
Ceylor LAN - photo courtesy of Ultimate Images
Ceylor LAN - photo courtesy of Ultimate Images
Mo Cuiske went very well again with further improvement to his relaxation in his dressage and scored a competitive mark of 30. He jumped a lovely double clear, but as the ground was pretty firm and didn't push him cross country so we picked up 10.8 time faults. The cross country caused quite a few problems, so this was all good enough for 4th place.
Ceylor LAN did a lovely test and is improving in his blance all the time, he scored a 28.5 the best test of his section. He then jumped a lovely round in the show jumping and was extremly unlucky to have the very last fence down, the last part of the treble. Again as it was firm and he is such a big youngster I took him very steadily cross country, but he still finished 8th.
Ceylor LAN - photo courtesy of Ultimate Images
Mad About U was having his first run for a while after picking up a nasty virus. He was a star and did a great test to score 25 to led his section. He then jumped a lovely clear both in the show jumping and cross country and won his section. A great first run back!!
Somerford Park
I had Persimmon doing the CIC**, Bonne Amie in the Open Intermediate and Mo Cuiske in the Novice at Somerford. If anyone hasn't been up to Somerford before I can't recommend it enough, it is the most fabulous event with beautifully designed and presented cross country courses, show jumping on a lovely all weather surface and all the international classes did there dressage on a surface as well. I don't know many other one days with such great facilities.
Mo Cuiske is improving all the time and did a nice relaxed test to score 34.5, just two marks of the leading test. He then jumped a fabulous double clear, round what was the most demanding cross country track that he has jumped so far. He gave me a great ride and with just 2.8 time faults he finished 9th.
Mo Cuiske - Photo courtesy of Kev Blackband
Bonne Amie did her best test to date and scored a 26.4 to be well placed after the dressage. She then jumped a great round show jumping, but was very unlucky to have her first fence of the year down. She jumped a good clear cross country, but was pretty slow as she pulled a shoe off early on and was slipping all over the place. She went cross country in a very heavy down pour, which made the ground very greasy.
Persimmon was a star in the CIC**, he did a great test and led the very large and competitive section on a 39.8. He then jumped a brilliant clear in the show jumping to maintain his lead going into the cross country. The cross country was the most challenging that he would have seen, with some tricky questions and a particularly tough double of corners combination at the end of the course which caused a lot of trouble. Persimmon flew round however and gave me a great ride to pick up a couple of time faults. This was all good enough for him to maintain his lead and win his second CIC** on the trot!!
Persimmon - photo courtesy of Hoof Prints Photos
Persimmon - photo courtesy of Hoof Prints Photos
Mo Cuiske is improving all the time and did a nice relaxed test to score 34.5, just two marks of the leading test. He then jumped a fabulous double clear, round what was the most demanding cross country track that he has jumped so far. He gave me a great ride and with just 2.8 time faults he finished 9th.
Mo Cuiske - Photo courtesy of Kev Blackband
Bonne Amie did her best test to date and scored a 26.4 to be well placed after the dressage. She then jumped a great round show jumping, but was very unlucky to have her first fence of the year down. She jumped a good clear cross country, but was pretty slow as she pulled a shoe off early on and was slipping all over the place. She went cross country in a very heavy down pour, which made the ground very greasy.
Persimmon was a star in the CIC**, he did a great test and led the very large and competitive section on a 39.8. He then jumped a brilliant clear in the show jumping to maintain his lead going into the cross country. The cross country was the most challenging that he would have seen, with some tricky questions and a particularly tough double of corners combination at the end of the course which caused a lot of trouble. Persimmon flew round however and gave me a great ride to pick up a couple of time faults. This was all good enough for him to maintain his lead and win his second CIC** on the trot!!
Persimmon - photo courtesy of Hoof Prints Photos
Thursday, 16 August 2012
Hartpury CIC***
I had Zidante and High Havoc both in the CIC*** and Hartpury and Bonne Amie was meant to be doing the CCI**. Unfortunately Bonne Amie managed to get puss in the foot on the Monday of the event and was unable to compete which was a great shame for everyone especially her owners.
Zidante went fantastically, she produced her best three star test to date and scored a 39.4 to put us in 2nd place. She scored a 9 from every judge and got three 9's from one!! She is getting so ridable and consistent now at this level, but I still feel there is more to come. Watch our test here:
Zidante went fantastically, she produced her best three star test to date and scored a 39.4 to put us in 2nd place. She scored a 9 from every judge and got three 9's from one!! She is getting so ridable and consistent now at this level, but I still feel there is more to come. Watch our test here:
She then jumped a brilliant clear in the show jumping and loved pinging off Hartpurys great surface. Watch our round here:
Zidante was fantastic cross country and very confident with herself. She was maybe a little too confident jumping into the second water and jumped in far too big!! She pecked on landing and did a little bit of snorkeling, loosing our line to the skinny eyelash hedge which was our jump out the water. As the eyelash was numbered separately I decided as she was snorkeling to make a circle and jump the last part separately. Zidante had other ideas and once she got her nose out the water she saw the very large hedge separating the two and three star fences, locked onto it and jumped it!! As this wasn't flagged we weren't penalised but it did waste quite a lot of time which was a shame. We picked up 13.2 time, which dropped us from 2nd to 9th, but still a great performance for an eight year old. Watch our cross country here:
High Havoc also did his best test at three star level to date and not to out done by Zidante also scored a few 9's!! He scored a 41, which left us in 6th place. He just went a little within himself in the indoor and wasn't quite as expressive as he can be outside. Watch our test here:
High Havoc then jumped a beautiful clear in the show jumping and also loved jumping off the surface. He was nearly foot perfect! Watch our round here:
He was fab cross country and gave me a great ride, we were unfortunately held on the course which broke our rhythm up some what and we picked up 3.2 time faults. But I was still thrilled with him. All this was good enough for us to finish in 3rd place for the second year running!! High Havoc seems to like Hartpury as he also finished 2nd there the year before. I am hoping we are due a win there next year! watch out cross country round here:
Somerly Park
I had Bonne Amie and Persimmon in the Open Intermediate and Mo Cuiske and Ceylor LAN in the Novice.
Bonne Amie went really well in the dressage and was her most ride able in the arena to date. She scored a 31.4 which I was a little disappointed about as I felt she would have scored better. She then jumped an immaculate double clear and finished just out the placings in 12th. Watch Bonne Amie performance by clicking on these links:
Bonne Amie went really well in the dressage and was her most ride able in the arena to date. She scored a 31.4 which I was a little disappointed about as I felt she would have scored better. She then jumped an immaculate double clear and finished just out the placings in 12th. Watch Bonne Amie performance by clicking on these links:
Persimmon was fantastic and produced a lovely test to score 22.7 and led his section comfortably. He then jumped two lovely clears, but I didn't chase him cross country and we picked up 3.6 time faults which left us on the same score as Gubby Leech and Smart Time. Due to him being faster than us cross country Gubby won the section and Persimmon finished 2nd. Watch Persimmons jumping rounds by following these links:
Mo Cuiske did a nice test but it is still work in progress so lots of room for improvement, he scored a 35. He then jumped a lovely clear in the show jumping and cross country, just picking up a few time faults to leave us in 7th place. Watch our performances here:
Ceylor LAN at only five was doing his second novice. He did a very nice test with some lovely work, but threw in a flying change in our medium canter which was a shame, but he still scored a 32.5. He was then a little fresh and feisty in his show jumping, I think he was pleased to be out!! He had his first fence of the year down which was a shame, but he definitely was a little too fresh to listen to me!! He then was great cross country, but I just went steadily as he is only young and I don't want to rush him. Watch our performance here:
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