The Competition, bogs and Mikka
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday……..first time out for 2010, expectations high, spirits high and my caffine levels through the roof.
It was one of those days when getting to the competition became the main event of the day. This was entirely my own fault. It started off on Saturday night when having had a new soundsystem fitted to the lorry. For the first time in nearly 3 years I found myself to have music to sing to whilst driving. My jubilation was short lived due to my lack of concentration on the matter at hand. I had already been warned not to crash on the short 2 mile drive back to the yard as I was singing along to Mikka at the top of my lungs.
Crash I did not. I even made it back to the yard….but this is where it all went wrong. So pleased with my lack of crashing I promptly drove into a bog and got well and truely stuck! Fantastic.
So Sunday morning started off with my farrier (our farrier-guru), my vet ( also yard owner) and I pushing the silly lorry onto dry land. All to the amusement of the horses. Next time they can pull it out.
Having finally rescued the starsky & hutch mobile (my nickname for the horse lorry due to it’s fabulous paint work!), and new set of shoe’s firmly on we headed off to the competition.
To cut a long story short, it all went like clock work. We scored 69% in our dressage which I was thrilled with and then rode a terrible line to the double and refusing to have a run out we jumped the wing of the second part and my foot brought it down. I am very cross with myself for this. So with all the excitement of the morning and my not so perfect riding we came 7th!!! Clever clever filly.
Tags: competition, dressage, farrier, filly, horses, lorry, vet
