The new Outdoor Arena
50m X 60m
Tuesday was the older ones and Thursday started with the under 10's - they were so cute!
Week 4
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The weekend saw us at Belton Horse
Trials
One of our favourite evens of the season set in the National Trust property,
Belton Park. Although a little further from home now we have moved it is still
only 50 minutes away. - We really are spoilt by the amount of events that are
nearby.
When I say weekend it was actually Friday,
Saturday, Sunday, which as always makes the week even shorter.
Although this week was a little quieter. With only 8 horses from the yard
competing, and the 'babies' that evented last week having an easy few days in
the field enjoying the sunshine we had this week.
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The new Outdoor Arena
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Our outdoor arena was ready to use this week, not
a day too soon as we had the Quorn PC in for training sessions Tuesday &
Thursday. Tuesday was the older ones and Thursday started with the under 10's - they were so cute! |
So apart from plenty of teaching this week we
concentrated on the weekend.
Mark's mother, Gillian flew over Friday morning for the weekend, it was ages
since her last visit so plenty of changes for her to see.
Friday, the Novices did their dressage and Show
Jumping, and some Under 21 did their dressage. Mark was competing 3 novices,
Duke, Willow, and Nitetime, all 3 jumped super clears, Duke did a very good test
for a 28 and the other did good tests for them leaving them in good positions
for Saturday XC.
Lauren did a good dressage on Hindle (Jane Herbeck's horse) for a 29 and a good
test on Louie in the Under 21 open intermediate.
Saturday, started Hindle show jumping then all
with Novices XC. The XC is a well built & imposing for all 3 levels that
encourages a bold horse and bold riding.
Hindle had the last SJ down, then did a good steady clear XC to finish 10th - a
good result for his forth novice.
Louie did another very good double clear but his dressage was not quite good
enough to continue Lauren's domination of the Under 21 class, they could only
manage 2nd place !
Mark's had 2 super XC rides on Willow & Nitetime to finish 5th on Willow and 20th on Nitetime after a steady XC
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Willow
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Nitetime
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Duke despite starting off brilliantly obviously has a very good memory, and decided the trackener half way round the course (where he was eliminated last year) once again it was not to his liking and Mark retired after two stops.
Johnny & Clint (A Few Dollars More) a horse Mark has taught a few times and the owner asked him to ride, both did dressage tests in the intermediate to get 37 & 38 penalties.
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Sunday started with the intermediates show jumping, Johnny jumped a very good clear. Clint had 3 down.
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Clint
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Johnny through the combination
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Johnny
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Johnny went on to do a very good clear and fast XC round. Finishing the day in 3rd place |
This left only Mark with Carl & Lauren with Delphi in the advanced.
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Carl was in the top section for the most
experienced horses. This section then runs XC and show jumps last in reverse order.
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Mark & Carl in the dressage in front of Belton House
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| Carl was flying on the XC as normal. At this stage Carl knows Belton rather too well and gets a little strong towards the end. The result was a crashing fall at the last. Both Mark and Carl walked away, both a little stiff and sore. |
Last fence on the advanced
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Lauren sporting the slept in look for the dressage!
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Lauren's advanced run did not start
too well. In the strong wind she lost her top hat very early on in the
dressage. Once it came off she could get on with the test and did well. |
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Delphi SJ
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Delphi XC
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An excellent clear Jumping & XC left Lauren in
2nd place.
Not bad for only her second advanced!
And we were home by 5.30 - perfect.
