Unaffiliated Show Jumping
Because we have had so much rain this week we decided to cancel our Mini Hunter Trial as the ground conditions were not good. So not having anything else planned today and as we have to take a pony to the Pony Club Champs in Derby in a couple of weeks we decided to take Lucky and Jasper to Sunnybank. Both jump very well in show jumping competitions at Talygarn but have not been away anywhere else very much. We have been having a bit of trouble with the lorry lately which Steve thinks is air in the diesel and it has been cutting out a few times when you first start it. We loaded up the ponies the lorry cut out a few times then off we went arriving at Sunnybank in time for the 1′9 class. Zoe Morgan took Lucky in the class and managed to get him round clear. Molly took Jasper in. Being quite young Jasper was quite difficult he wasn’t bothered by the fences at all but napped quite a bit. So Molly had a good try and got him round with a few stops and circles. Lucky proved to be on form and Zoe rode a very competitive jump off and took 1st place. For the 2ft class Zoe rode Jasper who having been in once did much better and went clear with a good jump off time. Lucky also went clear but unfortunately clipped a fence in the jump off. Zoe was placed 2nd on Jasper. Both girls looked smart and rode very well. On todays results though I think we will take Lucky with Fred to the Champs as I think Jasper would be a bit too naughty with the napping, especially in the dressage arena with no fence to keep him in I can just see him cutting across all three arenas. After loading the ponies on the lorry we tried to start it and it kept cutting out to the point where the battery was going flat. Steve got a lift back to the yard with Helen Morgan and fetched the trailor and the land rover so I could get the ponies home but we decided to jump start the lorry first, after a few trys we got it started and left straight away while it was going, we should have put the ponies on the trailor really because we managed to get as far as the slip road going on to the A470 when it cut out altogether. There was too much fast traffic to take the ponies off the lorry so I called the police to close the road for a few minutes to swap the ponies once we had this done I took them home in the trailor and Steve waited for the rescue services to get the lorry home. Zoe and Molly thought it was all quite an adventure. We had intended to come home with the ponies and go back with Amelia and Destiny but needless to say this just didn’t happen.
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