Holy Pony club craziness!
In the beginning of June I had a schooling two phase at Stepping Stone farm. I did Novice with Duellsa. It went pretty well, our dressage was kind of a mess but our stadium round was flawless. It really showed me that inside her little brain she really is learning :).
Next on the list of events was Dressage Rally. I was on a scramble team with 3 TFPC members. We all did great! My rides on Dixie were pretty decent! My tests on her ALWAYS look better than they feel. Our FPC team did great too! know they got 1st for the riding, but I am not sure what their HM score was.
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The day after we had our Pony Club 2-phase. I took Duellsa and Keri took Dixie. Duellsa's dressage was.......I am speechless. It was that good. We ended up with a 28! I was so proud that our work had, and still is, paying off. Keri and Dixie did great as well! Keri said Dixie felt a bit "sticky" but you really couldn't notice. They got a 29! Jumping went SO great. Duellie was listening to me the whole time. After that dressage test, and that jump round. I decided.....I am just going to do my C-3 on her. Keri and Dixie looked better this time than at the jumper show! It's really just Keri getting used to Dixie's little quirks. We both ended the day with 1st!!
Finally Keri an I got to school cross country at Hyl-Tun Farm the Thursday after. It was all going very well! Jumping many ditches and the chevrons. We went back to the trailer to get a drink before going across the street to school, and I got super weak and nauseous. I proceeded to get sick, which is never fun. We decided to end it there. I felt SO bad. It wouldn't have been as bad if it was only me schooling, but I mostly felt bad for Keri. She said she understood, but I still felt bad.
Three days later Duellsa and I had our first HTS! I was SO pumped. Partly because I could finally use all our XC stuff. Our dressage warm up was a little short, but that was my fault. Our test was not that bad. A little spooky and stressed. Probably due to the fact that warmup was in an indoor and the test was in the outdoor with a direct view to cross country. We got a 40, which I thought was agreeable for that test. Next was cross country! Warmup she was a little forward, and chipping in to the fences, but I kept our jump portion of the warm up short and sweet. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Have a nice ride! Duellsa was off! She jumped the 1st fence with no issue. After fence one it was a rollbacky (new word!) turn to the second fence. She did the 2nd fence fine! Next was a gallop up the hill into a trail with a stream that was not marked. It took us about 2 minutes to get threw the little baby stream. Once we got through the steam it was out of the trail over a maxed rolltop, then back in a trail to a telephone poll fence. She jumped the poll one a bit funny, but she was on a roll so I was not going to disrupt her pace to get the absolutely perfect spot. Once out of the trail we took a hard left and went to the first combo of the course. It was called "Hooter Hills", which was basicly a short steep hill down, a stride on flat ground, then up the next one. Then once up the hill there was a skinny about 4 strides out. She was prefect through it. No squiggles at the skinny! The next 6 fences she did so well. Then jump 12 was in the same field as the first two fences. It was the scarey ditch! Which apparently was not too scarey to Duellsa! She cantered over it like it was a ground poll. Good Girly! The last fence was a simple stair type jump. I was so #@&%$ proud of her. That was her 1st real cross country course and she did it like a pro! A few hours later was stadium, it was realllllly wet, but it didn't phase Duellsa. We got the rail down on the first fence but once we got to fence 7 it was better. Jump 7 was a maxed oxer, one stride to a vertical. It kind of backed her off a bit. I was flipping out inside my head. AH! We ended the day in first! Oh, Duellsa <3
Next Pony club event we had was Show Jumping Rally! I was a stable manager for our team this time. I actually enjoy being a stable manager! Our team did great. I was proud of them for remembering their courses and such. We ended the day with 2nd for Horse Managment and 3rd for riding! Yes, you read that right. FPC did better in HM than riding! I think....that may be.....a FPC FIRST! Haha. It's because of their awesome stable manager **wink wink**.
Three days later Duellsa and I had our first HTS! I was SO pumped. Partly because I could finally use all our XC stuff. Our dressage warm up was a little short, but that was my fault. Our test was not that bad. A little spooky and stressed. Probably due to the fact that warmup was in an indoor and the test was in the outdoor with a direct view to cross country. We got a 40, which I thought was agreeable for that test. Next was cross country! Warmup she was a little forward, and chipping in to the fences, but I kept our jump portion of the warm up short and sweet. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Have a nice ride! Duellsa was off! She jumped the 1st fence with no issue. After fence one it was a rollbacky (new word!) turn to the second fence. She did the 2nd fence fine! Next was a gallop up the hill into a trail with a stream that was not marked. It took us about 2 minutes to get threw the little baby stream. Once we got through the steam it was out of the trail over a maxed rolltop, then back in a trail to a telephone poll fence. She jumped the poll one a bit funny, but she was on a roll so I was not going to disrupt her pace to get the absolutely perfect spot. Once out of the trail we took a hard left and went to the first combo of the course. It was called "Hooter Hills", which was basicly a short steep hill down, a stride on flat ground, then up the next one. Then once up the hill there was a skinny about 4 strides out. She was prefect through it. No squiggles at the skinny! The next 6 fences she did so well. Then jump 12 was in the same field as the first two fences. It was the scarey ditch! Which apparently was not too scarey to Duellsa! She cantered over it like it was a ground poll. Good Girly! The last fence was a simple stair type jump. I was so #@&%$ proud of her. That was her 1st real cross country course and she did it like a pro! A few hours later was stadium, it was realllllly wet, but it didn't phase Duellsa. We got the rail down on the first fence but once we got to fence 7 it was better. Jump 7 was a maxed oxer, one stride to a vertical. It kind of backed her off a bit. I was flipping out inside my head. AH! We ended the day in first! Oh, Duellsa <3
Next Pony club event we had was Show Jumping Rally! I was a stable manager for our team this time. I actually enjoy being a stable manager! Our team did great. I was proud of them for remembering their courses and such. We ended the day with 2nd for Horse Managment and 3rd for riding! Yes, you read that right. FPC did better in HM than riding! I think....that may be.....a FPC FIRST! Haha. It's because of their awesome stable manager **wink wink**.
Next is my H-b rating and my license test! WAHOOO!
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