......THE EVENTING SEASON HAS STARTED!!!!
Photo kindly taken by MDR_Photo
The morning of Aston Le Walls, I was like a little giddy kid at Christmas, I got up an hour before I needed to and just started cleaning Danny to make sure he look gorgeous!
It was one of those days that couldn't have been better, everything just went so smoothly!
My brother even came to watch with his friends (Mum joked that I had my very own medical team on standby but they would only have been useful if I had had a heart attack, since they all specialise in Cardiac) and this was their first introduction to eventing!
The sun was out and it even seemed like summer. Mum and I pinched ourselves as we walked the course. 1st day back eventing, sun was out and I get to ride a horse like Danny.
Danny and I did an average dressage test of a 31.5, he was a little tense to start with but I think we both settled into it a little more by the end of the test, I was surprised at how well he went since he had been a monkey when I was practicing the test at home, but he was a good boy.
Show jumping was great, (I think Danny found it a bit of an insult), I was a little worried he would get a bit strong but he didn't, although he did jump massive and I think he did that on purpose to make a point that he can jump a lot higher, but still we did a beautiful clear together.
Cross country, well it's safe to say I kept the hand break on for the first few fences because on our way back from the dressage he saw the xc and took a hold and started cantering and jumping. Tina and Sam had warned me he can be a bit unruly xc, so I anticipated the worst butttt I was pleasantly suprised he was a real gentleman and by the fifth fence I eased off the hand break and he stayed in a lovely sedate canter which is what I wanted!!
I ended on a 36.70 hitching up quite a few time penalties but that doesn't matter because its all about gaining the feel for him!
It was a great day Michael and Lisa Rogers came along to support me too and Micheal (MDR) took some wonderful photos as per usual, and Lisa did some great filming of me!
Can't wait for Danny and my next appearance which is at Tweseldowm in another BE100!!!
More pictures: http://www.harrietupton.com/aston-le-walls---2nd-march-2013.html
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