Harvey (ccn)
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Super proud of Sass’s efforts this weekend. He exceeded all my expectations and absolutely blew me away, after 2 years of pretty much straight showjumping and some convincing I thought I’d chuck him in the eventing ring and see how he handled it.
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Dressage has never been our strong point and our class was massive with 40 riders in it so I had no expectations of him in the dressage and I was going to be happy to get it over and done with. Well did he absolutely kill it. To other people it might have looked pretty average but I was so proud of him and so happy to come out of that dressage with a 66.56% which left us with 33.4 penalties sitting in 21st
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Showjumping I knew we were going to fly around it as we had dropped down to a 65 for Harvey. He was definitely on his toes but managed to go around double clear jumping us to 9th
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Cross country I was nervous for as it was his first eventing start. He knew what his job was and he wanted to get it done, the one minute count down to the start box felt like the longest minute as he just wanted to go. We absolutely flew around cross country and we were going clear and I was so happy until we got to the second last jump and I realised I missed jump 14ab. I was absolutely devastated as I went through the finish flags as sass didn’t put a foot wrong and my mistake cost us a place.
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All in all I’m so proud of sass and I’m excited for Brigadoon in 4 weeks time. Thankyou to Amy, Daina and Catherine for all the help and support over the weekend. Thankyou to mum obviously for being my Uber to and from Harvey. Thankyou Rebecca Flavel from Pimp my Pony - Tack and Horse Care for the retail therapy over the weekend. Lastly Thankyou to my sponsor Koala Solar.