I had Vendredi Biats and BGS Captain Morgan in the CIC* and Creevagh Cooley in the CIC**.
Vendredi Biats was a star in his dressage and really enjoyed doing his test in a long arena for the first time. He did some lovely work and is strengthening and improving all the time. He scored a very competitive 42.1.
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He then jumped an immaculate clear in the show jumping and found it all very easy.
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By the time we went cross country it was raining rather heavily and although Vendredi Biats loves the rain and the wet, it was very slippy so we had to go a little carefully round the tight corners. He gave me a fantastic ride though and felt very mature and grown up round the track, we picked up a few time faults due to the wet ground and moved up to 4th place. In doing so he was the highest placed six year old in the 100 plus starters and gained his all important Le Lion qualification.
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BGS Captain Morgan produced a very polished and mistake free test to score 40.7, which left us right up with the leaders.
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He then jumped a lovely round in the show jumping and was extremely unlucky to have his first ever pole down with me.
He to went cross country in the slippy conditions and jumped a great clear, but picked up some time faults to finish in 10th place.
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Creevagh Cooley did some lovely work in her test and is begining to find the two star movements a little easier, she was a little cheeky in one canter transition, but other than that she did some very quality work. She scored a competitive 46.7.
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She then jumped a super clear in the show jumping, she was very happy to be out and felt back to herself after her little mishap at Barbury.
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She then flew round the cross country and made it feel very easy, I thought after her round we should finish with a top placing but unfortunately when I went to look at the score board I had been eliminated. I had know idea why as she had gone so well, so I spoke to the TD and he informed me I had jumped the wrong side of a flag. I did knock a right flag down, but as I hit it with my right foot, I couldn’t see how we hadn’t gone between it, also it was at part B of a combination and had I jumped the wrong side of it it would have been physically impossible to have got to part C, which they agreed I had jumped, so after much discussion they decided that the jump judges decision was final and that I was eliminated. I was extremely disappointed for Creevagh Cooley and her very supportive owner as she had gone so well.
