First ever One Day Event (more pics pg6)

[claire777]

What a brill day, me and Finn tackled our first ever ODE event together today at Stockland Lovell Manor.
Finn's not competed properly in XC for 3 years and I've not done any XC rounds since I was in the pony club (15 years ago )

We attempted the 2'6 Novice and here's how we did.

After getting no sleep through nerves we headed down to Stockland Lovell this morning on a beautiful sunny day

Dressage - Finn was being very obiediant and trying his best bless him and we ended up on a score of 35

SJ - Completely different horse I had no brakes as he was in full on hooray henry mode and after having a very sticky moment at fence 2 we managed a clear round

XC - Warmed up ok but then the starter gave us the 20 second countdown and Finn then decided to have a napping attack and we had rearing and reversing and spinning everywhere but in the direction of the start gate. I managed to get him going forward when they were counting down from 5 and we managed to canter happily through the start box

After settling into a great rythem Finn was filling me full of confidence, he was so amazing bless him and just galloped up the whole course and not once did we have a problem at any of the fences.
We finished with a few time faults 21.1 but the best news was out of a class of 35 we came 5th

I'm so pleased with what we did today and here are some XC piccies I think bless him he had his ears picked up the whole way







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[banjo]

well done you, fantastic result!!! Great action shots too

[Ussiarella]

Wow!!!!
*speechless*
you are really genial! stunning!
love the water pics

[munchkin65]

amazing well done and such good pics

[CDR]

Wow that looks amazing! I want to do it too!!! OK maybe I'm a bit too much of a scaredy cat lol! Those jumps were brill.

[jodee]

he looks amazing and it looks like a nice course too!

[Evening Star]

Wow looks like you both had loads of fun!
Well done, thats a great result!

[My Crazy Clan]

fab photos, well done.