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February News
Grasshoppers 2008
This weekend we went to Hoplands (lovely place!) and did the BE grasshoppers series. It was a pretty good experience with two acredited BE coaches offering help and advice at every stage of the competition! Smurph was in a rather bad mood - it was cold and very early, but gradually he warmed up and jumped two nice rounds to leave us in 6th place. We would have been 3rd but had a pole down - very unlucky as he is quite careful! Anyway it was judged on style mainly and the coach said he was a nice horse!! We have qulaified for the finals in warwickshire at the end of April. We also won a t shirt, and a £20 voucher!!
Merrist Wood Grasshoppers:
Smurph went jumping yesterday and had a lovely time. He jumped 3 fabulous clear rounds and ended up 2nd, qualifying for the final yet again! Photos - only a practice jump! But Mark Hawksworth took some good ones which I will have to scan in!
Priory Dressage 18/2/08
Well it was freezing cold and we took Smurph and Spring to Priory. Smurph had very little warm up as the arena was frozen! He went nicely and got 67.2 % which made him 7th amongst v.good company! Spring went for the ride, but Margo let us fill an empty space and compete! She was a littel scared of the other horses in the warm up, but went well to get 60% - not bad seeing as she can't canter very well due to lack of pratice and no school at home!!
Area Winter League:
Well we only took Dugal and Tom in the end as Smurph has had a good but busy week. Tom went really well and came 6th in 2'9, with a very unlcuky pole in the 3ft where there weren't many clears! Well done Dug the Thug! Meon didn't get that many placings as we were short on numbers today! looks like we will have to wait for the dressage to catch up again! Penny did well in class one and Chris gave it his all in the 3ft. Well done everyone else
Sweet Opposition
We have lots of foal photos, but I can't upload them for some reason!! I have to adjust camera settings -not sure how!
Half Term - we have lots going on this week - keep posted for further details!
Harmony Update - Harmony recovered from severe leg problem and nerve damage within about 2 days! She has clearly used up another of her lives and added another medical miracle to her already chequered past!
Spring thing went jumping in the woods yesterday and shows much more potential for XC than SJ - she seems to respect solid fences a lot more!
