It's been awful these past weeks. After having no room to squeeze anything extra in, we've ended up with nothing to do. The rain has cancelled almost everything and so Foxy and I haven't had a proper trip out for weeks! We finally had a proper ODE when it was the Area Horse Trials. Our Area Rep (the person in charge of the branches in my Area) had it moved so that the XC phase could go ahead! Even the big kids where excited to be out doing again!

All of my Branch did really well at the qualifiers. Two individuals qualified for the championships and one of the teams missed out by point 1 of a mark!! Everybody enjoyed themselves and every horse went well!

Foxy was overjoyed to be back out there on the XC course, so much so we went round far too fast and got 4.8 time penalties! The dressage phase wasn't terribly good as the wind was making Foxy a bit spooky but, as we always say, she didn't blow up in the canter. The show jumping course was very technical, even though it appeared otherwise. Foxy rattled a few poles but luckily they all stayed up so we got a clear. I was so pleased to get a double clear I didn't mind the time penalties!

Foxy and I have also qualified for the Riding Club's ODE champs and so we are already preparing ourselves for it. I qualified as a team so it's all efforts for the club.

Let's hope the rain holds off, I really hate combined training!!

Keep Riding,

Hilary