Team showjumping tonight..

10/01/2012 by shaun.

..at pony club was great. With 30 children in five teams battling it out over courses starting at first hole cross pole and on lead rein right up to 75cm. We were going to have the biggest class at 90cm but this was going to make the last two classes small numbers so we went for the excitement of a big class at the lower height. And we finished only half an hour late.

Highlights for me of the night were:

Buzz trotted very calmly over one of the smaller classes. The calmness was great to see given how excited he can get.

Jasmine completed a course with a lot of hard work from Hamish, but when she trotted and relaxed she had a fabulous engaged back end.

All the horses waiting at the outside gate with it wide open watching the jumping (and Rowans reaction when we told her we couldnt close the gate and she would just have to steer.

My shock when I went to feed Tisky and found he wasn’t in his stable. Worried he had run off I search around until I found him with his head stuck into the fresh hay delivered to day in the front pen.

I have also found out that there are people out there (in Tenerife) who use polystyrene lances to joust with. I want to get myself some and then we could Pony Club Jousting! And we think Waterloo is risky, wait until we try jousting.

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