Post by ziggy8 on Dec 15, 2008 7:41:58 GMT -12
And I have such a lot to catch up on!
I've been unbelievably busy with college and I have 4 horses now in work, so I haven't had time to do anything else!
I've seen a few of you on TSR, but for those of you I haven't - this is my year as condensed as possible Be warned - this will be very long!
This was Harley's first year of ridden work/competition and he has been unbelievable! He is very sharp and up until august, he bucked for Britain when he got tense We have done 9 shows -
NCPA Spring - first show, everything was very scary but he coped fantastically
Prestbury RC - won all 3 of his classes and went reserve ridden champion!
Derbyshire Festival of showing (a bit adventurous for his 3rd ever show and the marquee was terrifying at the side of the ring) - 2nd in-hand non-native and 6th ridden
Prestbury - two firsts and a second - overall in-hand champion
Beaver Hall - first in-hand plaited CHAPS, 1st ridden non-native pony CHAPS and overall in-hand champion!
Prestbury - first. second and third and reserve ridden champion.
BSPS area 2a - 2nd ridden non-native pony
UK Showing championships - 3rd in-hand plaited coloured final and our first evening performance for the ridden ;D Finished 8th out of a huge class (and considering he bolted on the go round, had a wrong leg and poked his nose was a remarkable result )
Festival of Champions at Aintree - Had the most fantastic day He came reserve champion in-hand plaited coloured with one judge giving him his highest score of the whole day! Then the ridden was an enormous class of an incredibly high standard and we somehow came reserve champion again It was in the evening and we had to do the lap of honour with all the lights turned off and just the spotlight. It was absolutely magical.
Then on the dressage side, we only took him to a handful of competitions and he managed to get 3BD points in his first affiliated novice and qualified for the BD area festival! We also qualified for the Trailblazers semi finals.
And we had a bash at an elementary in August and came 2nd with 65%! We qualified for the FOC dressage champs at Aintree where we came 10th in the novice final, 6th in the elementary final and I nearly fainted when we WON the elementary freestyle to music championships with 65%
He has been a total star ;D
Ziggy has had a year out pretty much this year. Took her to one show in October at the NW champs where she came 5th in the evening performance out of 23 riding horses and she was the only coloured on the showground ;D
Took her combined training earlier in the year which she thoroughly enjoyed and she somehow won her class which was fantastic.
I backed little Robbie in August, and he's coming along very sweetly
tilly came down with colic in March, and had to have surgery, so after 16 weeks off, she was brought back into work and we've been working very slowly through some "issues".
And little holly has been pony clubbing all year with a borrowed jockey on the lead rein ;D
Sorry if anyone managed to actually read to the end of this - turned out to be quite an essay
I've been unbelievably busy with college and I have 4 horses now in work, so I haven't had time to do anything else!
I've seen a few of you on TSR, but for those of you I haven't - this is my year as condensed as possible Be warned - this will be very long!
This was Harley's first year of ridden work/competition and he has been unbelievable! He is very sharp and up until august, he bucked for Britain when he got tense We have done 9 shows -
NCPA Spring - first show, everything was very scary but he coped fantastically
Prestbury RC - won all 3 of his classes and went reserve ridden champion!
Derbyshire Festival of showing (a bit adventurous for his 3rd ever show and the marquee was terrifying at the side of the ring) - 2nd in-hand non-native and 6th ridden
Prestbury - two firsts and a second - overall in-hand champion
Beaver Hall - first in-hand plaited CHAPS, 1st ridden non-native pony CHAPS and overall in-hand champion!
Prestbury - first. second and third and reserve ridden champion.
BSPS area 2a - 2nd ridden non-native pony
UK Showing championships - 3rd in-hand plaited coloured final and our first evening performance for the ridden ;D Finished 8th out of a huge class (and considering he bolted on the go round, had a wrong leg and poked his nose was a remarkable result )
Festival of Champions at Aintree - Had the most fantastic day He came reserve champion in-hand plaited coloured with one judge giving him his highest score of the whole day! Then the ridden was an enormous class of an incredibly high standard and we somehow came reserve champion again It was in the evening and we had to do the lap of honour with all the lights turned off and just the spotlight. It was absolutely magical.
Then on the dressage side, we only took him to a handful of competitions and he managed to get 3BD points in his first affiliated novice and qualified for the BD area festival! We also qualified for the Trailblazers semi finals.
And we had a bash at an elementary in August and came 2nd with 65%! We qualified for the FOC dressage champs at Aintree where we came 10th in the novice final, 6th in the elementary final and I nearly fainted when we WON the elementary freestyle to music championships with 65%
He has been a total star ;D
Ziggy has had a year out pretty much this year. Took her to one show in October at the NW champs where she came 5th in the evening performance out of 23 riding horses and she was the only coloured on the showground ;D
Took her combined training earlier in the year which she thoroughly enjoyed and she somehow won her class which was fantastic.
I backed little Robbie in August, and he's coming along very sweetly
tilly came down with colic in March, and had to have surgery, so after 16 weeks off, she was brought back into work and we've been working very slowly through some "issues".
And little holly has been pony clubbing all year with a borrowed jockey on the lead rein ;D
Sorry if anyone managed to actually read to the end of this - turned out to be quite an essay