Show Jumping

The pony Club area show jumping was held last Wednesday in Newton Powys. Amelia rode in the team for Llangeinor so we had to take Leo and we also took Fred for Josh Rees as he was unable to take his own pony. I did have some reservations about this as I wasn’t sure that Fred would manage a 3ft 3 course but he did really well and the team were second. At one point I thought they may have won it and I can honestly say that must be the first time I was relieved they were 2nd because had they won they would have qualified for the championships in Derby. As it was it cost us the best part of £80 in Diesel to get to Powys for one class and it would have mean’t being in Derby on the Monday, another 3 to 4 hour journey for one class and as we are already there on the Thursday for the day I was very relieved not to be going twice. Our Hunter trial was cancelled again on Saturday due to the persistent rain we seem to be having these days so we held indoor show jumping instead. Everybody outside still got very wet but I didn’t so that was ok and it turned out to be quite a sucessful day. We have set another date for the Hunter Trials Sunday 14th Sept. Hopefully the skys have run out of rain by then.  In a couple of weeks we are taking two horses to the Pony Club Championships in Derby for a centre competition, one of the horses Fred goes out fairly regularly and jumps but Buffy has not been away from here to jump in a long time so we decided to take her up to Sunnybank to jump in the 2′3. Carys Reville rode her as she will be riding her in Derby. Carys has never jumped in a competition away from Talygarn before. I was very pleased with Carys and Buffy, they got a clear in the first round and Carys rode a super jump off and managed to get 3rd place. I had a phone call last week from the owner of Holly wondering if we would like to loan her, she used to be here a few years back and was a nice pony, looks like Storm, so Steve and Emma went to fetch her with the trailor on Tuesday. They came back a few hours later with empty trailor because they couldn’t get her to load.  As they lived near Sunnybank we decided to go up with the lorry after the jumping. I have to say I have never met such a stubborn horse in all my life.  I have dealt with a few difficult to load types over the years and not failed very often but this was impossible. She planted her feet 2ft away from the tailboard and refused to move. We tried pulling, pushing, food, a whip, a lunge line, a chifney, patience, impatience but nothing worked she didn’t show any reaction to anything. She didn’t kick, rear or run off, just did not move, short of picking her up and carrying her nothing was going to make her move. Destiny is now back in work after an abscess in her foot and I have been riding her out everyday and so far managed to get soaking wet nearly everytime. Camp starts tomorrow and it looks like more rain.

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