Wednesday, December 07, 2005

hello all u wonderful ppl :D now i'm a bit highh... lol nway gna blog abt rl comp:

i entered prelim 1.1, prelim 1.2, novice 2.1 and 2 jumping classes. got Katie, AVeryCertain (AVC), Kampong, AVC and AVC (again) respectively. lol i was actually kinda in a shock cuz i thot i would get pipsqueak 4 dressage and kampong 4 jumping. had to like REPLAN my ENTIRE strategy :S NOT a fun thing to do on d eve of one's comp.

2.1 was early sat morning and my 1st event. kampong is NOT a very nice dressage horse and half d test was SITTING trot!!! and kampong is quite bouncy :S lol! he's also very UN-forward. nway i 4got d test was in sitting trot half d time ( kampong's bouncyness didn't help) so ended up doing rising trot alot :S ... also 4got that we cannot use our voices and clicked to make kampong go faster!! lol d judge was quite nice though didn't penalise me. still did quite badly though... but considering i've never even done 1.1 in a comp and i was starting d day w/ novice it was quite good?? haha

1.1 was ok. it was just that i'd NEVER ridden katie 4 dressage b4 and only rode her to jump ONCE and that was HORRID and EONS ago. lol didn't really noe what to expect. she was quite good except 4 d canters and trots immediately after d canters. she tends to cuts her corners alot during canters and trots REALLY horribly after d canter so i didn't really do well. 10th place and $25 (50RM) prize... lols

d 30cm clear round was kinda bad cuz there was this fence at A ( third jump of d course) and u had to go REALLY INTO d corner to do it properly or d horse would juz refuse it. i cleared d 1st 2 jumps quite nicely. then i didn't go into d corner deep enough and AVC refused. got REALLY nervous and i think AVC sensed it and refused again and went out d LEFT!! and we knocked down d jump. lol had to circle in trot while myrs put d jump back... SOOO embarrasing!! :S:S:S nway after that i was SOOOOO nervous and AVC like refused again and i got eliminated :( didn't finish d course

the 30~50 clear and time was WAYYYY GOOD!!!! it was d same course juz that there were fillers in one jump and d jumps were higher. haha AVC MEMORISED d WHOLE course so cute ya?? i was wayyy tense haha and nervous too!! when we went 'sailing' over d 3rd jump ( d exact jump i got elliminated 4) i was SOO happy!!! lols but d excitment only REALLY caught up w/ me at d 5th jump. after we went over that i 4GOT D REST OF D COURSE!!! lol i wanted to go right for some odd reason but AVC pulled me over 2 d left and over d 6th jump i got into 2 pt a little too late. poor boy!! and then we did d 7th 8th and 9th. d 10th jump was d 3rd jump. just from d opposite direction. wasn't thinking str and cut d corner!!! he refused of course :( circled and cleared it. lol i missed a clear round by ONE CORNER!!! lol kinda wasted... but that's showjumping 4 u.

1.2 was on sun. did ok i guess. AVC was kinda tired and all. but he still gave me his best (my poor baby!!) was quite ok juz my halt was qute bad... avc heard d gate creak open while i was getting him to halt and drifted a bit and i didn't have a square hal :S. ah wells can't really blame him. he was really tired and i'm sure he wanted to get bk to his stable. d judge said i have to work on my downward transitions more though... lol i must remem to do more bergardes ya?? haha

lol ok nway i gtg. will blog abt my "judging" experience 2moz :) and tues lesson. stay tuned!!

|`kath| 6:51 PM|

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