1st Competition!

Just finished my first competition in two years! :D :D Got up at 5:15 Sunday morning, got dressed, ate a quick breakfast, and packed up the car. Then we set out on the near two hour drive. The competition was actually pretty small. There was one arena with about 15 trailers parked around it. Most of them only had two or three horses each inside. There was one trailer behind ours with probably eight or ten horses, which interestingly took home all the firsts and seconds of every class. We had six horses.

 Geoff rode five times and did well on most of them. On the third round he knocked a pole down and on the last he fell of. :P

 Louisa did very well on her three rounds. She cleared all the fences every time. Her bay was just great.

Louise only rode twice on her grey but she got a fourth place ribbon and a pen for her first round. Her second round she had a pole down. Her grey looks really great in hunter competition!

Berta did well on her two rounds with Mia. First time was a clear round but the second she missed a fence on the double.

Diana rode once and fell off when her mare refused a fence. We all for some strange reason had a good hearted laugh about it.

As for me I only rode in one class, in the Club 2. The fences were around 60 cm or 2 ft. Mia did extremely well and was pretty easy to handle after her two rounds with Berta. We had a clear round but I jumped ahead of her on jump 8/10 and lost my stirrup, which caused us to fail the second changing leg zone on a diagonal. I did regain control though and finished the last two fences fine. Mia was a star. Overall my score was 63/100 points so although I didn't place, I was rather pleased after not riding for 18 months!

It was EXTREMELY cold and grey. It actually rained a little in the afternoon but then in the evening the sun began to show itself. I rode with Geoff for the first time in the horse truck. We got home at 8:30 and unloaded the horses. Everybody went home and I waited for my parents to pick me up. Had dinner at 10:30ish and went to bed at 11. Woke up at 9:30 this morning. XD

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