Well hello there!! I'm writing this a few days after the Rocky Mountain Horse Trials in Longmont CO. There is so much to tell!! Well we got a late start leaving on friday and therefore got there at like 8 PM!!!! So of course the show office was closed and we had to find out where our stall was, where we could get shavings.... we never did figure that one out and had to borrow from some friends!! lol. After we got Rowdy all settled in we went and got ourselves set up!
Dressage!! Well i got up early and walked Rowdy and then put him back and let him get some breakfast , then a few hours later i got him out again and braided him, then, finally, we tacked up for dressage. Thankfully they waved coats so i didn't have to die of heat stroke! I also actually lunged him for like 10 miniutes before/ in my warm up with side reins. Than in my actual warm-up i didn't do that much. I reviewed my dressage test with the most amazing girl who ran me through the dressage test! THANK YOU!! My actual test was very good!! I shaved 5 points off my dressage test to go from a 46 to a 41 which is really amazing for us!
Show Jumping!! Well i got out there a little bit early so i just walked around for a while. I had already walked the course earlier so i didn't have to do that! I ended shortening my stirrups to my cross country length!! Because as i am now discovering i like my stirrups ever shorter!! Any ways i didn't really do anything in my warm-up and that worked for us. I cantered a little bit but didn't really do any trotting because it tends to make Rowdy brace his back and come above the bit!! AAAAHHHHH!!! something to work on anyways haha. Our actual round was amazing! Rowdy saved me a couple times because he is amazing! ;) We ended up clean and clear!!
So that night i took out Rowdy's braids and walked him for a while and then put some standing bandages on him. Then i walked him some more and finally gave him some dinner and his well diserved rest!! I am so looking forward to tomorrow and so is Rowdy!!
X-C!!! I love cross country!!! I had walked the course three times and it was twisty, turny, and big!! It looked so fun!! Once again we didn't really do that much in the warmup, we did some trot work and then worked on his adjustability in the gallop. and then jumped the barn a few times and then we were off! We were a little worried about the footing but we had studs so it turned out to be ok! Rowdy just took off from the box and attacked the first jump and the second, and the third!!! Coming to the 4th jump you had to come between 2 big prelim cord woods and Rowdy locked on to the cord wood!! I was like NOOOO!! haha he looked so excited and i felt kinda bad because i was secretly pleased haha!! But we had so much fun!! we came in like 25 seconds under the time with no jump penalties and Rowdy looked like he could go do the whole thing over again!
So after show jumping I was in 15th place and then after cross country i was in 8th out of 18!! It really was a cross country competition and i really love that!! So Overall an amazing weekend!! Our next event is the Fall horse trials at the Colorado Horse Park and Area 9 championships. We might also go to Windy Wyoming Horse Trials in Laramie WY. So i'll talk to you later then!!
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