Sydney Eventing has resurrected Twilight Jump Club on the second Tuesday of every month and I managed to get Allie there in October.
We did two rounds, and she did fantastic.
Next up - Did we get to Silver Hills ODE?
Tuesday, 31 October 2017
Twilight Jump Club
The local 2000 olympic equestrian venue, Sydney International Equestrian Centre (SIEC) is an amazing venue, as you would expect. I've ridden there quite a few times now, but I've never ridden in the indoor - until quite recently.
Sydney Eventing has resurrected Twilight Jump Club on the second Tuesday of every month and I managed to get Allie there in October.
We did two rounds, and she did fantastic.
Next up - Did we get to Silver Hills ODE?
Sydney Eventing has resurrected Twilight Jump Club on the second Tuesday of every month and I managed to get Allie there in October.
We did two rounds, and she did fantastic.
Next up - Did we get to Silver Hills ODE?
Monday, 30 October 2017
Derby
So, back in September, all the stars aligned and I managed to take Allie to a derby day to do a 60cm and an 80cm derby round. The derby is a mix of cross country and show jumps.
Allie was a freaking super star. As you know we have barely done anything this year, and we certainly haven't ridden off property, let alone competed. So I decided to do a 60cm round, then depending on how we went there, I would either scratch the 80cm or ride hors concors in the 80 (as it was an unofficial comp/training day).
The 60 was a piece of cake. Allie was a gem, jumped everything with confidence, and left me feeling like I needed to give the 80 a red hot go, even though some of the jumps looked bloody scary.
The 80 went awesome, too. There were a few fences I was worried about - a rather large trakehner, a blue painted house, and a big table top.
She flew over the trakehner no problems, but we had a stop at the house because, curse my wretched legs, I just didn't have them on. She thought about stopping again the second go around but as you can see from the video, she hopped over and then totally got in her grove! By the time the table top came along (not in the videos) she flew over that, too. I yelled out "F*ck yeah!! Oops, sorry!!" as I galloped away from it toward the water.
The day was bloody awesome, Allie was a champ, and we came away with a second in the 80 and a third in the 60! Always nice to come home with a ribbon or two.
Allie was a freaking super star. As you know we have barely done anything this year, and we certainly haven't ridden off property, let alone competed. So I decided to do a 60cm round, then depending on how we went there, I would either scratch the 80cm or ride hors concors in the 80 (as it was an unofficial comp/training day).
The 60 was a piece of cake. Allie was a gem, jumped everything with confidence, and left me feeling like I needed to give the 80 a red hot go, even though some of the jumps looked bloody scary.
The 80 went awesome, too. There were a few fences I was worried about - a rather large trakehner, a blue painted house, and a big table top.
She flew over the trakehner no problems, but we had a stop at the house because, curse my wretched legs, I just didn't have them on. She thought about stopping again the second go around but as you can see from the video, she hopped over and then totally got in her grove! By the time the table top came along (not in the videos) she flew over that, too. I yelled out "F*ck yeah!! Oops, sorry!!" as I galloped away from it toward the water.
The day was bloody awesome, Allie was a champ, and we came away with a second in the 80 and a third in the 60! Always nice to come home with a ribbon or two.
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| Flying over the big table |
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| We have our "it's business time" faces on here. |
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| Hanging out between rounds |
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| Winner winner chicken dinner! |
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| Zooooooooom |
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| Through the water |
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