Area 7 Indoor Showjumping Qualifier.

Wooo what a day, had to arrive at 8:30am (which involved getting up at 6am!) to declare and have my passport checked. Then waited around for an hour or so as I was 59th to jump!

The competition works over 2 rounds and possible jump off. First round is 75cm and second round 85cm. Theres four in a team but one score can be discarded.

First round my first 3 team members all jumped clear! Woop! Which meant I could be the discard..which Deanna gladly made us by stopping at number 8 >:( Lots of horses had problems and I think the tinyness of the fence didnt help (she's been competing over a foot bigger recently!)

Onto the second round, other team members had got 4 faults, clear then 8faults so I really needed to go clear so we could discard our 8faults...which Deanna gladly did :D

With 4 other teams all finishing on four falts it was time for a jump off! All members of the team jumped off, again best 3 scores and times were taken. First of our riders sadly had two down, next two riders had clears so it was just me left. With only me and one other rider left in the jump off we knew I could have one fence down, anymore and we'd loose. Went in and unforunately knocked the first part of the double down :(:( Kicked on to the next, the "scary" filler from before, and flew it round to the last to end on 4 faults....

Which meant our team won out of 16 teams!! :D :D :D So now we're all qualified and off to the finals at hartpury at the end of march!! WOOOP

Also, this means Deanna has been placed at every show this month so far - started with a 4th, then 3rd, came 2nd last weekend and this week 1st! Probably means we have to come last next week right?! hehehe