23rd and 24th May

So last week was the area eventing as we were elim in the SJ and Deanna was just not right. She did a lovely sweet dressage test, then warming up for the SJ she was a nightmare, stopped at an Xpole and was running around getting very strong which is unlike her. The course was barely 90cm and should not have caused any problems what so ever, almost stopped at the first and by the 5th we were out. Didnt take her XC as it just wouldnt have been safe, she was not a happy bunny.  

So enter physio. Had a session on thursday and physio told me to jump yesterday, and if all ok compete today then call her to tell her how she felt ect.  

So yesterday....(first time using super Mum's home made wings. Other than the white stands and one plastic pole everything else is home made [:D])  

Something tells me she was feeling fine xD  

So off out BSJA today, had a silly rider error stop in the 80cm - just jumped it as a warm up and Deanna was really paying attention. Got out act together for the BN and finished 4th :D:D Hooray

80cm

90cm first round

Jump off - total rider error in the jump off spinning back to the wall so had a stop :( But she jumped super

17th Area 7 ODE...bad day

What a rubbish day.Walked the course on saturday, the XC was huge! 

Our course was meant to be "2.9ft some may be 3ft" yet the course was the exact same intro BE course as last week and we measured every fence and only 2 were at 85cm everything else was over height.

Thankfully lots of complaints were made and the biggest fence, 1.10m, had been taken out. Everything else was the same however...

Arrived sunday morning, off to the dressage and thought Deanna had done a lovely test. Round and controlled, good transitions - a snort going into the 2nd canter ruined that movement a bit but otherwise everything seemed good. Bit dissapointed to find I got 40.1 or 59.9% so not amazing. 

Then off to the showjumping. Very easy course, hardly any fillers and barely 90cm. Deanna was having none of it :( Stopped in the warm up and was totally unfocused, rushing around everywhere. Went into the ring, almost stopped at the first fence, 2 stops at the 3rd fence. Got her over then, but only to have another stop at the 5th fence so eliminated.

I think I was the only person out of 55 juniors to get eliminated, and my horse jumps DC's round BSJA discovery courses...ridiculous :(

Didnt dare take her XC, if she was stopping at X poles in the warm up theres no way I'd take her round an up to height XC.

Working on 3 theories...

1) She's tweaked her back so didnt want to jump, physio out asap

Unlikely, as she was jumping fine last week and I cant see her having done something the field in that time. We'll see.

2) Hormonal, possibly in season so her ovaries are hurting and the movement when jumping is painful.

A possibility, trying to look into it a bit more at the minute. She doesnt show any other 'marey' signs though so if her ovaries were bothering her that much I'd of thought she would be showing other signs.

3) Terrible day, I rode badly, D took the piss.

Few pics from the dressage...

3rd and 4th confidence building!

Well after our "adventures" falling over out XC last weekend we had a bit of a regroup this weekend. Started with an SJ lesson on sunday with my lovely instructor, needed to check that D was jumping ok first then cracked on with getting me jumping better as I was not riding positively...too scared of falling off and hurting myself again!

Things got better the more we did so thats a good sign!

Onto today (Monday) and we headed straight back out onto the XC course. Camera batteries died very quickly though which is a real shame :( She jumped super though and I started riding a lot better by the end :)