Pony Club Area 10 Show Jumping

A few weeks ago Amelia was asked to jump at the Pony Club Area Show Jumping for the Llangeinor Hunt Pony Club. As there was unlikely to be a team for the Open Amelia was entered as an Individual. A couple of days before the event it was discovered that one of the team members from the Intermediate team was unable to jump and Amelia was asked if she would switch to this team to make up the numbers. I was a little concerned that Destiny may not be eligible for the Intermediate so after much reading of the rules and a phone call to Pony Club everything was ok. The day before I rang up for the times and found that the open individual classes could be entered on the day so we took Chloe Reakes and Fred with us. On the day one of the other team members was not able to compete so it meant they were a team of three and all scores would count. There were 4 teams in the intermediate and several individuals. The first team to jump was Monmouth who finished on a penalty of 4. Victoria Tamplin was the first to jump for Llangeinor and jumped a clear, Amelia was next who also went clear and The final member Josh Rees also went clear. After the other two teams had jumped Llangeinor was in the lead. One of the parents seemed to think that Amelia’s horse was not eligible for the class but having already checked this I knew she was wrong. I presume she didn’t say anything otherwise the whole team would’ve been withdrawn had she been right. Monmouth finished the second round with a penalty of 8 and the other two teams were well off the lead with lots of penalities. Llangeinor knew that between all three members they could only afford to have one fence down. Victoria went clear Amelia went Clear and Josh had the last fence down which gave us only 4 faults. So Llangeinor won the competition and will now go to the Pony Club Championships in August. At the Championships there is a team competition on the Sunday and an Individual competition on Monday so all the people who went clear had to go into a jump off to decide the three qualifying places for the individual championships. Unfortunately Amelia had the last fence down but with a good time and only two clears finishing she took third place and qualified. Amazingly the parent of the child who didn’t qualify later decided to voice her concerns over Destiny’s eligibility, to no avail I might add. We decided to get some lunch at this point the queue was a mile long and the guy serving could definitely have done with some help but the food was great I really enjoyed my Bacon Brie and Cranberry Wrap, you don’t often get that at a horse show,  Chloe had quite await before her 2′9 class and there was well over 20 entered. Chloe rode a good clear round. Only four competitors managed a clear round and of the four I knew Nancie Edwards would be Chloe’s main rival. Chloe jumped a fast clear round in the jump off and unfortunately for Nancie although fortunate for Chloe, Nancie took a fence down. Chloe received a first place rosette a Silver Salva and A lovely rosette with Best Centre member on it. The weather had been boiling hot all day and I was quite surprised when Kelly rang me to see if she should put rugs on the horses as it was hammering down at home, although it did cloud over and start to rain as we were leaving. As we were driving home sunburnt, stuck in traffic (due to an accident) and tired some friends rang Steve to find out how long we would be as they were starting a BBQ in our garden. apparently they had mentioned this to Steve earlier in the week and he had forgotten to tell me. It was the last thing I was feeling like. When we arrived home the rain got worse so we moved the BBQ into the indoor school and actually really enjoyed the evening. I’m also glad a grew all that lettuce at least I could throw some salad together. They left at around midnight and then I remembered the decorators were coming in at 8.30 in the morning and I was supposed to be packing everything up.

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