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Spooky.... and its not Halloween yet! 

10/22/2015

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​It’s been a busy month.. not least because the normal routine has to be packed in to ever shortening days. This is always a tricky time of year – the last week in October before the clocks go back… not quite enough daylight hours before or after work.  On the plus side though I have seen some amazing sun rises and sun sets recently and have been thankful that the weather has been unusually dry on the whole.
 
Hickstead was something of a comedy act which started by me missing the turning to the showground making us late after a considerable detour, then forgetting my gloves – back to the lorry, forgetting our number – back to the lorry again. By the time I was in the warm up arena we had less than 5 minutes till our starting time.  I cantered a few circles and decided to ride through our first test simply as a warm up for the second. First though we had to get past the scary  carousel horses that were leaning by the entrance to the arenas. For a horse that doesn’t usually spook Rhapsody took a real dislike to them and by the time I coaxed him past he was well and truly wired!  He snorted down the centre line in a passage kind of way and unbelievably we got to the end with no mistakes. It had been such a farce up to that point that I really did have to smile as I walked him to cool him down before our next class. I was very pleased with the second test – we were both more relaxed.  When the results came out I had to chuckle -  we came 2nd in both!
 
The day did leave me questioning my normal warm up routine and I decided to shake it up a bit at Oldencraig a few weeks later as part of our preparation for the international at Bury Farm from 27/30 October. There are some times when you can only test out a new plan at a competition – it goes against the grain a little but of course you hope that it pays off. Throwing away the test at Oldencraig will, I believe, pay off at Bury… time will tell but I had Rhaps much more forward going  which is how most judges like to see him and I like to ride him.
 
Our day at Hickstead wasn’t all smiles… Rhapsody broke his double bridle. As much as I don’t want to think about Christmas just yet, looks like I have started writing my wish list for Santa! 
 
This weekend  I start to pack for Bury Farm and as usual I want to thank the great team of friends and sponsors who all do their bit to help Rhaps and I trot down the centre line!!

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