Had a bit of a mixed day at Southview today. I started with Crosbie jumping his first ever BS class in the British Novice, quite a technical twisty track but he took on the challenge, just lowering a fence in the jump off, but I was chuffed to pieces with him. Then on to Florence in the Discovery, she had been a little bit of a monkey at home yesterday, just full of herself, so I decided to try a Mexican noseband to see if shutting her mouth helped. She wasn't entirely impressed at first but when we got into the arena she was absolutely on fire...made some super smart turns to grab hold of second place, narrowly missing out on first by 0.? of a second, that was expensive (£15 difference in prize money). Then I also had Percy in the Discovery and he had warmed up well and started the course ok but just had a misunderstanding at a fence in the jump off, but was fine afterwards. The joys of horses, one minute your up then your back down. But still delighted with Florence 😘