I had Very Special Z, Acis and Vendredi Biats in the Novice and Darustud Cooley and Cooely Plan B in the BE100.
Very Special Z did a good test, but didn’t perhaps show as much expression as he can do. He scored a competitive 30.
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He then jumped a fantastic clear round the show jumping and popped round the cross country making it feel easy. He picked up 4 time faults which dropped us out of the top 10.
Acis did another really consistent test and showed some super differences in his medium canters. He scored a very competitive mark in his section of 29.8.
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He then jumped a super clear in the show jumping, the course was very airy with very short distances but he coped really well and enjoyed the good ground after a muddy Gatcombe.
He jumped a great clear round his first Novice cross country and just picked up a few time faults to finish in 8th place.
Vendredi Biats did another great test, but lost a little concentration from time to time. He scored a top mark in his section of 28.3. Unfortunately I forgot to charge the video camera so it ran out half way through his test.
He then had a very unlucky fence down in the show jumping, but jumped a good consistent round.
Watch our round here:
He then flew round the cross country making it feel very easy. He finished inside the time and in 9th place.
Darustud Cooley did a fantastic test and scored a leading mark of just 19.8.
Watch our test here:
He then jumped a super clear round both the show jumping and cross country to complete on his dressage score to win his section.
Cooley Plan B did a good test, but lost a little bit of concentration from time to time as she was quite keen to watch the golfers play golf next to her arena. I also managed to go wrong so she scored a disappointing 34.5.
She then jumped a super clear in the show jumping and felt a lot less green then the week before at Somerley.
Watch our round here:
Again like in the show jumping she had come on in leaps and bounds with her cross country since her first run and jumped a fantastic clear, feeling really confident.
