May 10th 2009

Jack: We didn't do that well. Our warm up was amazing. I rode very confidently. I knew my course well. The first three jumps were perfect. Then, we refused jump 4 and 6. At jump 4, I thought of going long, but in my head I seconded guessed the distance. I was a little to aggressive to jump 6, so we refused. Then we were asked to leave the ring :( 

Calypso: This class went much better. We had a decent warm up. The course was difficult seeing as only 4 out of 20 people went clean. 2 people went double clean. I was one of them :) Our first round was spot on except the skinny. I ran up to it, and we chipped. He kept it up! We touched a couple jumps, but nothing came down. It was so awesome. The jump off consisted of 6 jumps. It was a direct six to a tight roll back to a galloping 5 to a steady one then a galloping six. The first line was spot on, the roll back was tight, our five to one was perfect, and the six was very long, but I kept on it. We ended with a double clean round. 76 sec first round ( I think?) and 27.2 seconds for the jump off! I ended up winning by a second We got to do a victory gallop and were champion!

-Casey