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AIRC National Horse Trials
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24-08-2013 10:12pm#1
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Best of luck EG - I am sure you will be flying it!
Its my favourite event of the year, I get a buzz even thiking about it!! Some very happy memories through the years
Hopefully we will back in the coming years again!
Fingers crossed! We've had a good year so this would be a nice bonus and it will probably be our last AP outing too! A rosette would just be a lovely keepsake of our first eventing season 0 -
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do you know when dressage times go up?
Saturday night going by how the AIRC usually operate :mad:
Jokes aside, for the National Hunter Trial it was late Friday afternoon I thinkbyhookorbycrook wrote: »Venue and club, not sure if the owl hole is in for Ap, I think it's not for the ordinary AP, not sure re championship.
Oh if its in, he's going over it and that's that!!! :P
The last time there it seemed to cause A LOT of issues in the AP. My lad picked up in front and went to go but changed his mind and ended up with his legs in the birch.... I hung on until he lifted himself out
it'll be arse in the saddle all the way over they next time I do it!!!
Someone said something about shadows hiding the sheep in the other side or something.... Dunno what it was but he's not a stopper at all so I think I totally allowed it to happen or even caused it somehow.0 -
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byhookorbycrook wrote: »There was an issue about the times, so apparently they have been taken down. Our lads busy building show jumping today and doing fences lists etc.
I saw the pictures.... very prepared
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booo crap day
Horse just was not into it at all middling dressage, fabulous SJ(Only the 3rd clear in the last 18 months) but the most uncomfortable XC I've ever had, topped off with a run out at a very straight forward fence He was sticky and backwards and just horrible which is not like him at all.... Finished on 57...
back to the drawing board
and nice to meet you, byhookorbycrook, even if it was brief! This meeting people from the internet business always makes me very shy
few pics
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Unfortunately to hear it didnt go your way EG;
I had a run like that a few years back at the Championships and its not a nice way to end the season;
That being said - just time to regroup and plan for next year
To be honest I think there's something more to it. He's not a lazy or unwilling horse and he LOVES jumping. There's a professional pic from near where I had issues and he looks like he's not able to jump its so bad.... He's sound and happy enough in himself so I don't think its serious but we'll see over the next few days. I'm not overly worried but he'll be well checked and spoiled after his few days off to ensure nothing is amiss
Assuming it was an off-day and nothing more, I was going to upgrade and I'm still gonna go ahead with SJ and DR but gonna see how we feel about hunter trials before I go for the the XC upgrade
I think with the other 2, we need more of a challenge to keep us going.... I need tougher dressage to make me work and he prefers(and I think it shows in the SJ photos) to jump bigger stuff.... 0 -
Sorry to hear things didn't go as well as you hoped - it's always such a let down when it happens and can make you doubt everything you are doing/have done during the preparation. Do you think your horse could be starting to 'feel the ground'? He wouldn't necessarily be showing signs of soreness or lameness, but, a bit like ourselves, he wouldn't be feeling quite right but yet not show any signs of anything wrong.
Lovely pics, by the way! 0 -
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great day, really well organised. Cross country was a lovely flowing course, really enjoyed it!
Want to reiterate this, everything ran incredibly well and was a credit to everyone involved.... All the xc courses looked fabulous too
@convert we've developed a theory that maybe I didn't take his haynet away from him soon enough before the XC. I usually do quite a short warm up for XC just loosen him out and a little trot before a jump or two.
Thinking maybe he was lethargic at the start and maybe started getting a little sore from a full belly towards the end?? Looking at him yesterday he was noticeably slimmer
so he had deffo had too much hay and I did notice he gorged a bit after SJ...
Its either that or the ground as despite the tough-as-nails old fashioned hunter look he has very sensitive feet! He was sound and moving beautifully on the straight and on a circle last night so whatever it was seems ok thankfully 0
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