Weekend Wrap-Up

Octoberfest was a total success!! We finished on our dressage score of 37.5, in 8th place, and had an absolutely fantastic XC round. Tim was nicely forward and willing the whole way around, with none of the stupid looky stuff from last time. I did circle twice (which you'll see in the videos) because I'm constantly worried about getting time penalties for going too fast. He's such a good horse... I am so fortunate to have him!

Posting this again because I love it SOOOO much! 

Some awkward fences at first (didn't get to warm-up properly) but 2nd half of the course was lovely

Our Beginner Novice debut

Over the weekend, Tim and I competed at the KHP in our first beginner novice/first recognized show! Dressage was a tad tense, per usual, but it was still an improvement over our last test. Until we get our dressage together, we're going to continue to get our butts kicked in that phase. After dressage, we were tied for 10th. A double clear stadium round pulled us up to 8th.

XC was so so so great and we had a really good rhythm most of the way around. However, we had never jumped an A/B combo before... Tim jumped in really well to A, but started drifting right so slightly at first that I didn't notice until a second too late. We almost took out the right flag, but I just couldn't get him over. I whipped him right back around and we jumped through it flawlessly the second time. Without this stupid run-out, we would've placed FOURTH. Alas, we found ourselves back in 10th, which I'm okay with. Things to work on for our next show :)

He was dumb about this one 

AWK

So, what's next? Well, as many dressage lessons as I can possibly manage, some hock injections and time off for the Timmers, and either Team Challenge (wait listed) or Octoberfest! I seriously cannot wait to get back out and compete again! I'm also going to keep up with the blog more, now that Tim and I are doing fun/exciting things. Stay tuned!