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...