I had Mo Cuiske in the Advanced, Vendredi Biats in the Intermediate and Wish Upon A Star in the Open Intermediate.
Mo Cuiske did a super test and is beginning to find the more advanced movements a little easier. He scored a competitive 32.
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He then jumped his socks off round a tricky show jumping track and produced a fabulous clear, which moved us right up with the leaders.
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Unfortunately the cross country didn’t quite go to plan, I set out with every intention of riding a fast clear to try and put us well in contention of a top placing but I ballsed up! I came off the turn to fence 2 and ride forward for a long one I thought I’d seen, then three strides out I decided that maybe that shot wasn’t there, so I hooked and hooked until we were at the base of the fence and in an impossible place for Mo Cuiske to take off from, he tried to get out of the way, but couldn’t and had a very understandable 20 penalties. I was so cross with myself as it was entirely my fault, so I gave myself a kick and then Mo Cuiske absolutely flew round the rest of the tough track and made it feel like a pony club course. I was delighted with his performance but appalled with mine!
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Vendredi Biats did his test late in the day after a lot of rain so unfortunately the ground had deteriorated a lot in the arena and it was very muddy. He did some fantastic work though and coped well with the ground, he got a little stuck in the mud at the end of his test and broke into canter, but other than that he was great and scored a 9 for his entry and one also for his simple change. He led his section on a 25.7.
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By the afternoon the show jumping ground had got very muddy and the course was casing a lot of trouble, but he jumped his heart out and put in an exceptional clear.
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He then flew round the cross country and felt super, but he had an unfortunate 60 penalties at corner combination. He jumped the first element well, but slipped on the turn of the dog leg to the corner so we missed it, as I felt he had done nothing wrong and the run out was purely down to him slipping on the approach I didn’t correct him before coming to the fence again, unfortunately as he has never had a run out before, he thought it was a great new trick so ran out the second time. This time it was very uncalled for so he had a good smack and then jumped through the double of corners brilliantly and stormed round the rest of the track.
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Wish Upon A Star did a lovely test, but got a little stuck in the mud at times. He scored a competitive 30.7.
He then jumped very well in the wet ground and was very unlucky to have a fence down. We didn’t run cross country as we didn’t feel the ground was suitable for him.
