exciting times

The team have been busy since our last blog. Posy and Millie went to Solihull last weekend, and aquited themselves well. Millie was slightly frustrating in the first two phases but flew around the cross country giving Mary a lovely ride and all was forgiven. Posy did a lovely test and a very impressive double clear around her first novice. A great achievement for her.

A busy weekend at Highclere with Posy and Rowan both finishing on their dressage scores for 2nd and 7th respectively in the BE100. They have had SUPER seasons and really deserved their ribbons.

Sunday saw poor Jack left at home, after getting cast the night before the show. Willy and Parker both did super tests for 30 and 32, annoyingly both had 12 faults show jumping. Parker tried his socks off and I wasn't too disappointed with his efforts and Willy just felt a little casual coming back to intermediate level after his 3* debut. They both redeemed themselves with lovely clears XC.

Monday saw Luke, Sprout and Fish contest the advanced. Lukey did a personal best dressage to score 33, Sprout made a good effort in his first advanced to score 35 and Fish got a bit excited but didn't 'loose the plot' to score 39. I had an attack of 'the slows' in the show jumping! Luke and Sprout jumped super rounds with one down each, but managed a handful of time faults on both which was disappointing. Fish jumped a magic round, and was clear apart from....I fell off!!!! So annoying I can't tell you how cross I was. He just didn't seem to quite see a white upright and put back down. I jumped back on to finish his 'clear'!!

All three boys gave me magic cross country rides XC, Fish marred his copy book with a little hesitation at the step down, but I couldn't fault any of them, and particularly excited to have completed Sprout's first advanced, and really cemented my partnership with Luke.

We now have Willy, Luke and Sprout Blenheim bound. I feel so lucky and excited to have four horses with proven advanced ability, and a very promising bunch as their 'understudies'. Look out world, team Jackson is on the up!