Alli's Blog

Mum arrived at some ungodly hour this morning, interupting my sleep to plait my mane and generally make me look all prissy. I was having a lovely lie down and a nap when she got to my stable, so I was a bit grumpy at first. Then she gave me some brekky, so I forgave her. We arrived at this big show ground, there were lots of other horses, and there were jumps, lots and lots of jumps. I was really excited. Auntie Caroline got on me, and rode me around for ages. I didnt feel like doing what she asked much, there was so much to look at. Eventually I got a bit tired, and she took me into the dressage arena. I did ok, I cantered at the right spots and everything. Heres a picture of me (how sexy do I look?) After the dressage I was in 9th place (out of 20 horses) so I was pretty happy. Then we went and did some show jumping, I loved this, the jumps were nice and small, and not scary at all. I didnt refuse any of them, Aunty Caroline was very strict and kicked me if I even thought about it! But I showed her, I decided to knock the very last rail, just as she thought we were going to have a clear round. hehehehe Heres some pictures of me in action: (Thanks to Aunty Flight who took these of me) After the show jumping, I was still coming 9th. Finally they let me out onto the big cross country course. I had been eyeing it off all day, just waiting. It looked so much fun, and I was hanging for a big flat strap gallop! Just before we went in Mum made a big fuss of me, she was so nervous, lucky she wasnt riding me, or she would have made me nervous too. Right from the beginning Auntie Caroline let me just have my head, and I powered along. A couple of the jumps were a bit scary, and I wanted to gallop straight into them. Auntie Caroline made me slow a little, back to a more sedate canter before she let me leap over them. They were only 45cm, I know I couldve flown over them, but I think she was worried I'd fall and hurt myself. She is probably right, I was pretty excited, and not really thinking straight! Anyway, heres some pics of me out on the course. Its hard to see how fabulous I look as they are a bit far away and blurry, but you can still see my style over the log jump: I jumped clear, and we found out later that I was the 2nd fastest horse on the course that day, not just in my class, but out of everyone! How good is that hey??? Mum and Auntie Caroline kept talking about time penalties, blah blah, I didnt care about that. I ended up in 5th place, so I got a pretty green ribbon to wear, and a bag of Mitavite Economix! Woohooo!!! I love Economix. biggrinjester Mum said later that if I had slowed down a bit I could have got third place, but hey, I got Economix!!! Aunty Caroline was disappointed her stop watch wasnt working, because she reckoned she would have made me trot some parts (yeah right!), so we could have got closer to the optimum time and placed third. Once we got home, Mum gave me a lovely hot dinner, and some hay, lots of pats, and told me how proud she was of me. Apparently later in the week I am going out to the paddock with the other horses for a holiday. I'm really looking forward to that.
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