Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Sunday May 28th 2009

Warm up: It went so well. I flatted Jack pretty rigorously. Then we jumped in the ring. He was a little spooky, but it all worked out. 

THIS: We scored a 71 and ended up 5th. We got knocked out of the test by the last rider :( That sucked. I could have been much smoother, but it was my warm up after all. 

MHJ: It was great. Smoother than my first class. I was a little deep in the last four. I should have bent out. 

NEEHJ: It's some new weird final thing. It was going so well until I ran up to nothing. 

NEHJ: The first five jumps were flawless, then I froze because I got nervous and focused on winning instead of riding. We refused an oxer. I set up the role back perfectly too :( Then we refused the in and out. It was both our faults. 

WIHS: Great! Our first 3'6" class of the day. He tried to refuse at stride 4 in a 5 line. I took my legs clean off him and kicked him. Needless to say, he launched over the jump. The last jump wasn't as good as it could have been. I cut in after our weird 5 line. We ended up 8th out of 16. 

USEF: I ended with the USEF because I didn't want to wear Jack out. He was a perfect boy! It was so good. I thought it would be good enough to test, but it wasn't :( I was pretty upset, not going to lie. The only problem was I got deep in a bending six because I went direct. We worked it out though. It was my best course of the day :) 7th out of 20. 

Overall, it was a good day. I need to focus on riding consistently instead of winning. Really I do! I can't win until I ride consistently. I also need to focus more and not get nervous. 

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