At the championships you had to jump in two classes to try and qualify for the Grand Prix on the Sunday. We had a couple of very early starts on the Thursday and Saturday, but both the ponies were fantastic. Each jumping a double clear on both days, qualifying them for the Sunday. Although we were jumping double clears we were outside the placing's on both days, I was amazed just how fast the showjumper's go in the jump off's and of course with my eventers we don't really learn to jump off. This was the deciding factor why I didn't go back to jump on the final day, 48 had qualified from the original 106 and I just thought it was a lot of money to go back and probably not stand much chance in the jump off should we get that far. So instead the horses went out in the field and I watched the class on the internet as there was a live stream. A big lesson was learnt this day..."You have to be in it to win it"....to my horror I watched only 22 go clear and into the jump off, of which only 3 were clear!!!! So if I had gone and popped a couple of nice double clears I could possibly have been 4th & 5th. The course just caused so much trouble, there were fallers and stoppers and poles flying everywhere. I know I can't say I would have jumped double clear on either of them but if we had we could have had a great result. But never mind they both jumped fantastic over the two day and despite being a little bit down having watched the class on live stream, all was not lost as Thomas proposed to me that afternoon, so I'm now engaged....awesome!!!
Both Florence an Percy had qualified for the 95cm Amateur Championships having gone through the first round stages and qualifying at the second stages. The championships were held at Aintree which is an amazing venue. Both horses had been on their holidays and then been got back up into work and this was their first competition for about 7 or 8 weeks.
At the championships you had to jump in two classes to try and qualify for the Grand Prix on the Sunday. We had a couple of very early starts on the Thursday and Saturday, but both the ponies were fantastic. Each jumping a double clear on both days, qualifying them for the Sunday. Although we were jumping double clears we were outside the placing's on both days, I was amazed just how fast the showjumper's go in the jump off's and of course with my eventers we don't really learn to jump off. This was the deciding factor why I didn't go back to jump on the final day, 48 had qualified from the original 106 and I just thought it was a lot of money to go back and probably not stand much chance in the jump off should we get that far. So instead the horses went out in the field and I watched the class on the internet as there was a live stream. A big lesson was learnt this day..."You have to be in it to win it"....to my horror I watched only 22 go clear and into the jump off, of which only 3 were clear!!!! So if I had gone and popped a couple of nice double clears I could possibly have been 4th & 5th. The course just caused so much trouble, there were fallers and stoppers and poles flying everywhere. I know I can't say I would have jumped double clear on either of them but if we had we could have had a great result. But never mind they both jumped fantastic over the two day and despite being a little bit down having watched the class on live stream, all was not lost as Thomas proposed to me that afternoon, so I'm now engaged....awesome!!! |
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August 2022
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