We Got Second!!!!!

I am SO stoked with Spyke!!!!! He pulled one out of the bag on the last day of the series and managed to fly into second place overall. In fact, it was right down to the wire between myself and the eventual winner.

We had a lesson with Tracey (as always) the week before the competition and worked through some of our issues. I think the biggest issue for us was that the two previous days had been held in conjunction with show jumping which meant that we had to be in a really small arena with deep sand. Spyke really struggled to get a rhythm with the tight corners and short run ups to the jumps. This week's was held in a nice BIG arena and Spyke LOVED it !!!! We even nailed the 80 and did a decent 90. We pulled a rail in the 90 which did us for a chance at the title (we were only one point behind the leader at that point so if we had placed higher than her we would have drawn or won. However, she was really consistently good right through the series so I think she deserved to win :-)

Next week we have our first registered competition. I have only entered in two training classes 75 and 80 but I think I will also do the 90 which will be our first 'qualifier'. I don't expect to do anything other than hopefully a decent round but it will be very interesting to see how we get on. A LOT of the show hunter people came up to me after the winter series and asked if I was going to register him. :-)

Oh!!! I forgot to mention that I also fell off on Saturday (muppet rider AGAIN). Fortunately it was in the warm up but I have to admit it HURT!!!!! We got a jump wrong (completely my fault for not watching where I was going) and I lost my balance and fell off. It made me REALLY nervous the rest of the day but Spyke really looked after me and got better and better so by the time we got to the 90 I was feeling a bit more confident. LOL Every round had a comment from the judge, all she said was 'kind'. That's my boy!!!!! :-)