Post by sundance20 on Apr 22, 2014 16:54:34 GMT
So some people may remember the trouble i have had with getting Troy to jump at competitions, and how i took him back down to 45cm and started again...
Well since then he got his winter heritage worker ticket at richmond in 3rd place out of 3 with a VERY ropey round, lots of leaps and poles flying everywhere, and i was torn as to weather i should enter him at the winters and try it or not push him, well i took him out to craven country ride and he followed 2 confident horses over all the biggest jumps, then i booked him onto a worker clinic with Steph Wheway and his confidence grew and then a showjump clinic with Joe whitaker who had us doing gymnastic jumping and working on rythm and striding and his confidence grew even more, jumping a 1m5 related distance double! The day before we set off for winter champs i put up a grid in the field to try remind him about his lesson, a 1 strided triple with the final fence being 1.15!
Anyway we set off down to winter champs on thursday to do the RI PP and the workers on friday and the open ri C&D on saturday, its cold sleeping in a lorry in april, we woke up at 1am shivering hoping that it was actually 4.30 and time to get up anyway!
He disgraced himself in both the RI classes, by anticipating his show and being tense and choppy but another day another try!
he completley suprised me in the workers, he jumped round like he's done it thousands of times before, had a few tiny glances at the odd fence but nothing really obvious, it just backed him off nicely as he was starting to rush the warm up jumps, he had THE MOST unlucky pole in the world, he literally rolled it with his back tiptoes, and looking at the marks, he would have had the same marks as 7th place, so gutting but so thrilling that it was only a pole and not elimination from stopping, we had a wrong leg in our show but that's because i wasn't riding at all just sat steering with a massive grin on my face.
less chatter more pictures!
and here's a nice one of him in the ri
Its taken me three years to get him confident jumping away from home, and i honestly think its because when i first got him we had a practically rotational fall over a hanging ladder filler at home.
Well since then he got his winter heritage worker ticket at richmond in 3rd place out of 3 with a VERY ropey round, lots of leaps and poles flying everywhere, and i was torn as to weather i should enter him at the winters and try it or not push him, well i took him out to craven country ride and he followed 2 confident horses over all the biggest jumps, then i booked him onto a worker clinic with Steph Wheway and his confidence grew and then a showjump clinic with Joe whitaker who had us doing gymnastic jumping and working on rythm and striding and his confidence grew even more, jumping a 1m5 related distance double! The day before we set off for winter champs i put up a grid in the field to try remind him about his lesson, a 1 strided triple with the final fence being 1.15!
Anyway we set off down to winter champs on thursday to do the RI PP and the workers on friday and the open ri C&D on saturday, its cold sleeping in a lorry in april, we woke up at 1am shivering hoping that it was actually 4.30 and time to get up anyway!
He disgraced himself in both the RI classes, by anticipating his show and being tense and choppy but another day another try!
he completley suprised me in the workers, he jumped round like he's done it thousands of times before, had a few tiny glances at the odd fence but nothing really obvious, it just backed him off nicely as he was starting to rush the warm up jumps, he had THE MOST unlucky pole in the world, he literally rolled it with his back tiptoes, and looking at the marks, he would have had the same marks as 7th place, so gutting but so thrilling that it was only a pole and not elimination from stopping, we had a wrong leg in our show but that's because i wasn't riding at all just sat steering with a massive grin on my face.
less chatter more pictures!
and here's a nice one of him in the ri
Its taken me three years to get him confident jumping away from home, and i honestly think its because when i first got him we had a practically rotational fall over a hanging ladder filler at home.