Unfortunately Deanna completely hated it, the minute she was in the arena she was tense and not responding to me well. Did the warm up 80-90cm class and had an annoying stop at the 2nd fence, she wasn't spooking but just wouldnt push for the long stride as she was so tense so ground to a halt. Jumped the rest well.
Then went into the 90cm. Fences were bang up to height and I was a bit worried about some of the spreads and Deanna wasn't going forwards she'd struggled to make the distances. Started off forward and she was jumping ok, but leading through her shoulders so kept getting really dodgy strides.
Came to the penultimate fence, I turned badly and she wasn't straight through her body. Gave her a kick as really it was not a big fence for her, but she stopped (and almost got me off!). Came again and jumped the first part but then threw quite a dirty stop at the 2nd part so was eliminated :( Popped another fence on the way out and called it a day.
On the one hand Im pleased as her stops weren't due to her spooking at fillers, it was more issues with flatwork that were amplified with her being so tense. I know she doesn't jump well in little indoor arenas, theres one venue I never go to for that reason so this is just another to add to the list! As she isn't scared of the fences, hopefully she'll jump there well outdoors - she's much happier in a bigger arena.
Few stills and then the video of the 90cm. Excuse my terrible riding!
A few randoms from the show and once we got back home.
The RC have booked a local venue for SJ schooling tomorrow so hopefully we'll have a good jump tomorrow before hartpury on sunday!!
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