Prelim 7 and Prelim 14 at Bromsgrove Riding Club.
From start to finish Vin was a star; ‘Mr Chilled Out’.
He’s come such a long way since we began the ‘need to get miles on his clock’ policy.
Bromsgrove can be testing for a highly-strung horse
The riding club venue is adjacent to six lanes of motorway and as a result a high level of traffic noise blankets the field.
This makes it perfect – in my view – just the venue to ‘get miles on his clock’.
The moment I unloaded Vin he showed he was Mr Cool.
We tacked up, mounted, walked off and began working in.
Half an hour later we did P7 and I felt he was brilliant.
An hour later we did P14 – slightly less brilliantly (a little too much pace in some of the movements for my comfort), but – I was very pleased again.
I have to give a huge thank you to my caller; she battled against the unrelenting traffic noise but not once did I lose the thread of what was being shouted at me.
We got placed 6th in P7 and were unplaced (but 7th) in P14.
Our first rosette! (his second one though – he earned that with Karen on board at the Eventer’s Challenge show jumping competition a couple of months ago when I was unable to ride).
Yay!
Tomorrow (weather permitting) we’re going show jumping at Allenshill.
Fingers crossed!
Brennig.