Osberton International and Breeding Championships

I had Bonne Amie competing in the CCI**, Mo Cuiske in the CIC* 6 year old Young Horse Championships, Ceylor LAN in the 5 year old Young Horse Championships and Andrassy Echo in the 4 year old Young Horse Championships.

Ceylor LAN was having his last run of the season and was an absolute star again. He produced a lovely test and scored 26 to lead the very competitive 5 year old championships. He then jumped a very grown up clear in the show jumping in a very atmospheric arena and kept his lead going into the cross country which was run in reverse order of merit. The cross country wasn't too testing for what he has done this year and he jumped a lovely clear inside the time to take the National Five Year Old Young Horse Championships!! He is now holder of both five year old titles and is going to have a well earned holiday over the winter.

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Andrassy Echo was competing in only his second ever event at the championships and took it all in his stride. Although he is a little green still he did a very sweet test with just a couple of errors towards the end, he scored a very respectable 33. He then jumped his socks off round what was a very large track for him at this point in his training, he had a very unfortunate one down when I got him in far too close to and oxer, he had no chance and came down on the back rail which was such a shame as he didn't deserve to have one down as he jumped so well and tried so hard. He gave me a lovely confident ride round the cross country and completed with a lovely clear. He finished with a real smile on his face and seemed to have really enjoyed his experience. He is now for sale as Ben my husband owns him.

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Mo Cuiske was competing in his first International competition and took it all in his stride. He coped very well with the main arena and didn't get nearly as tense as I thought he might. He made one unfortunate error in his test which was a shame as it was rather a large one!! He completely miss understood my aid to go into canter and got into a bit of a pickle!! The rest of his test was very nice though and he scored a 53.1. He then jumped fantastically both in the show jumping and across country round two tough tracks that were a big ask for him. He made them both feel easy and I am now looking forwards to next season with him.

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Bonne Amie did her test on Wednesday and produced her best CCI** test to date, scoring a 48.6 which left us in a competitive 16th place after the first phase. Unfortunately Bonne Amie let the occasion rather get to her on cross country day and wasn't her normal self. We have been working hard on getting her to relax and focus on what she is jumping all year and she has been getting better and better, but Osberton didn't quite come off as planned. She didn't relax and focus from the outset, which meant she produced some poor jumps and had a couple of near misses. After getting to about three quarters of the way round she had an annoying glance off as she hadn't focused on what she was jumping and had not seen the last element of the combination, which she ran by. After this run out I decided to call it a day and retire as she clearly wasn't on form for what ever reason. This was a very disappointing way to end the season with her for owner and everyone involved.

Gatcombe International

I had Bonne Amie doing the Open Intermediate, Mo Cuiske, Mad About U and Ceylor LAN doing the Novice and Persimmon in the CIC**

                                              Photo courtesy of Fiona Scott - Maxwell

Bonne Amie did a lovely test to score a 30.5. She jumped a beautiful clear in the show jumping and felt great. The cross country wouldn't be her favourite type of track as it is quite twisty, but she listen and jumped very well and finished with just a few time faults for 7th place in a very competitive section.

Mo Cuiske fresh from his run at Pontispool on the Monday went very well again. He did a very nice calm test, not quite as good as his one on Monday where he scored a 26 but I thought it was still a good test. So I was very shocked to see he had scored a 42!! Even when he has been a little on the naughty side he hasn't scored that badly! We put our bad score behind us and Mo Cuiske jumped a very classy double clear.

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Ceylor LAN was doing his last Novice run of the season and he made it a good one. He did a lovely flowing test to score 29.5 and then went on to jump his best show jumping round to date and produced an immaculate clear. He then jumped a great, but steady clear cross country to pick up a few time faults and finish 4th.

 

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Mad About U was doing his first Novice since his nasty virus in the summer and he didn't disappoint. He did a very smart test to score 25.5 and led his large section after this phase. He then put up a foot perfect show jumping round and jumped a great clear. As he is only five and didn't run him too quickly cross country and he picked up a few time faults, however due to his great all round performance he still won his section comfortably!!

 

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Persimmon was a super star again!! He won is third event on the trot and his third CIC** this season at Gatcombe. He did a very nice test with no real mistakes and scored a very competitive mark of 37.2 which put us in 2nd place going into the jumping phases. Persimmon was a little fresh and spooky in the show jumping, but still managed to jumped a faultless clear to put the pressure on the leader Lucy Jackson. Lucy also went clear show jumping but I heard her go cross country before me and she picked up 0.4 of a time fault which put her 0.1 behind Persimmons score so I knew we had to go clear inside the time if we wanted to win the Whatley Manor sponsored spa break. Persimmon flew round the cross country and finished one second inside the time!! So won the huge section by just 0.1 of a mark ahead of poor Lucy.

 

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