
03/02/2025
So a great and very educational Regionals at Arena Uk this weekend. Starting with Mr Enzo who did his usual in putting his best foot forward for 66% to finished 10th in Elementary Gold. He has only just stepped up to this level in the arena so the plan was just to go for a nice quiet clear round as they say focusing on balance over energy, and for him to have a nice time in the ring with not to much pressure and he did a lovely job just one little error where I was a bit to quiet in the riding and he dropped off into trot very briefly, but we are all really please with him and the test. He then did the Novice Gold on the second day and we allowed the hand break off and he did a lovely 68.28% for 7th place. His plans for this year will be aiming at the 6 year old classes.
Next up was Bally who was taking part in her first Regional. She was in the Novice Gold and had a real mixture of v good marks and v spooky marks 😂 and thinking that the camera man at the A end of the arena was very scary so it made for some interesting movments but In between her doing her giraffe moments, some added lateral moments plus an added rein back she did ok and some really lovely comments from the judge. In her second test Prelim Gold was a huge improvement in confidence from her first test and did a lovely test only for the rider to miss a 20m circle and then get herself and the judge confused which ended up with an elimination for errors of course but the judges kindly let us finish the test once the confusion was finally sorted and she came away with a lovely score. What was prob more valuable was to be able to have more time in the arena starting and stopping which gave her invaluable arena time for the future.
Photos kindly from the amazing Annie Hoir and thank you Paul Fielder for all the help even when he couldn’t be their in person