I have been teaching at the Avon Vale Pony Club junior camp for the week but was lucky enough to get a last minute entry into West Wilts BE100 just having to take the afternoon off teaching to compete at my most local event. Wanadoo Too (Wally) had been prepared (plaited etc) by my home groom Ingrid and looked the part, so I was hoping for less tricks in the dressage. I could not have been happier with the test, the judge opened the door at the end and congratulated us!! I got my first ever 10 for a halt in the middle of the test and was rewarded by a fantastic score of 19.5 (80.5%). This put us well in the lead but as we have learned from Wally, the win was not in the bag. Other than finding some Mitsubushi L200 signs around the warm-up arena very scary we went in and jumped a lovely clear in the new outdoor arena (which is beautiful to jump on).
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| All photo's courtesy of David Betteridge |
Then onto the xc, the course was stiffer than the previous event here, jumping a few of the novice obsticles but Wally flew round taking everything in his stride. We finished bang on the optimum time and had a comvincing win of 11 marks!! Nothing could have made today more perfect.
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