On Saturday I’ll be loading Tom in to the lorry and we’ll be trundling out of the yard at about 06.30, and heading westwards into darkest Gloucestershire for the first of our JAS competitions.
I’ve put Tom on to full livery for tomorrow, so the girls will bath him and trim and groom and generally tart him up and do all the really top stuff that I cut down on because I like to get home before 21.00 most nights.
I’ve put the lorry ‘on charge’ as an insurance policy; there’s nowt worse than turning up at some horrible hour of the morning, all ready to rock and roll, only to have the bloody thing refuse to start. It’s not temperamental really, it just hates very cold and very wet mornings. Unfortunately those things are a regular feature of this time of the year so, just in case, the battery is on charge.
We had a good workout this evening, JP had us testing ourselves through lots of half-circle jumping around a track indoors. I feel well ‘jumped-in’.
Tomorrow I’ll give Tom a relatively easy night just so that I can spend some time cleaning tack and loading the lorry in preparation for Saturday’s early start.
Studio tomorrow too, being a Friday and all that.
Good luck for Saturday, I’ll keep my fingers crossed for great scores!
How did you get on?
Perp: Despite V’s good wishes it went like crap. Elimination after two refusals in the SJ phase and then, for good measure, got very seriously dumped while practising in the working-in afterwards.