Time to catch up on the last few weeks! I took Ray (Lumiere Royale), my 4 yr old gelding to his first event at BCHP. He is by Lux Z out of a Cavalier Royale mare. Ray was a star! He won the dressage on a 24.3 and clean on cross-country and in show jumping. Cross-country is always fun the first time out, but by half way around he figured out what the game was; by the end he was looking for the next fence. We would have won the event, but being four years old, with no stud holes in his shoes yet, the show jumping got very slick and I decided that for his first time out, slow and steady would be in his best interest and a few time faults dropped him out of first. He really handled the day beautifully; it was a super long day and one of our first cold and rainy days as well.
My student Beth rode From to third place in their third training event together. She is doing a wonderful job getting to know this horse, and having a blast!
After Bucks County I had more lessons with Betsy, which have been incredibly helpful. At Plantation Joey, George and Rox all improved in their flat work. It is certainly a work in progress, but well on its way! Joey and George did the CIC*** and Rox did the CIC**. It's always an exhausting weekend riding these three boys! The cross-country was a blast on all three. They were all clean, quick and jumped beautifully. The courses were completely different at Plantation this year: a huge congratulations to all at PFHT, they have done a wonderful job!
Show Jumping was pretty good, we have some room for improvement, but the boys all placed. Joey was 4th, George was 8th in the CIC*** and Rox had an unfortunate 1 rail down to finish in 10th in the CIC**. Joey won the best conditioned in the 3-star and Rox won best conditioned in the 2-star, so that was very exciting! Overall, I was very pleased with our weekend and am looking forward to the rest of the fall season.
Show Jumping was pretty good, we have some room for improvement, but the boys all placed. Joey was 4th, George was 8th in the CIC*** and Rox had an unfortunate 1 rail down to finish in 10th in the CIC**. Joey won the best conditioned in the 3-star and Rox won best conditioned in the 2-star, so that was very exciting! Overall, I was very pleased with our weekend and am looking forward to the rest of the fall season.After Plantation we caught a couple more lessons with Betsy before she headed out to watch the WEG, where she is also commentating for the Eventing Dressage, so listen in! Then Ray did event numero dos at Flora Lea...and he won! He is getting better and more mature by the day. He won the dressage again on a 24.3, and jumped great. I must give another huge congratulations to Flora Lea on making some lovely improvements to this long running event, they had a wonderful turnout and I hope this competition continues to grow each year.
Now a quick jumper show for George before we head to Morven Park with Joey, George and Rox in the Advanced!
In other news: Gotteulan sold and will have a lovely home as a jumper, congrats to Emily! We also have some exciting new horses being added to our team - I will start updating as they arrive!
We are starting to book spots for Aiken if anyone is interested and also have stalls available in NJ at Everbreeze which will remain open all winter. Please contact me for more info!
Check back soon,
Kristin
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