Today Grier had their first “B” Rated horse show and I rode Daisy and Joey, a students horse.
We did pre-adults and the bit-o-straw classic (if you dont know what that is it is two jumping and one flat. the jumping is scored like equitation) and she did really well. We got reserve champion in the bit-o-straw and a few seconds and thirds in the pre-adults.
I tried to stay calm even though I was doing two horses in both of those divsions and had to switch saddles after every third round haha.
In the first round (from the pre adults) it was the first round of the day and we didnt get to school so she was very fresh and actually was doing some head shaking like she was going to buck me off in the beginning and after the first oxar in the line when we got the long spot and i got jumped out of the tack. Then when we jumped the brick on the rail and trotted to fix our lead Daisy wasnt really focusing and picked up the wrong lead again but i didnt harp on it since we were already in the line to the jump. The rest of the day she did all of the simple changes. She definately saved my as.s over that last jump! haha
The second course she was going real good to the first fence until we turned away from the ingate and she started head shaking… which she never did before today haha. That totally messed up my focus to the first fence, leaned over the top, and caused her to get the wrong lead on the back side. I decided to add it up through the lines because i got a short spot to the first jump on the diagonal and didnt want to run her at the second jump. Thennn i got jumped out of the tack over the brick wall but got our simple and made it over the oxar great. I should have asked for the spot instead of riding her to the base in the last line but I wanted both lines to be the same number.
The third course was the same as the first. You can tell she started to get a little tired and wasnt handing me the jumps like she was in the first two courses (which i dont expect her to do). I should have pushed her down the line away from the barn to do the 4 instead of the 5 so that I wouldnt have tried to hold her down the diagonal line I love her for carrying me over that second jump in the line and over the last oxar. I should have dug my spurs in and sucked it up.
I sat with the judge the day before for the jumper show so she knew about her leg hanging and before the show gave me tips on helping her jump better. I cant remember all the places becuase I rode both the horses and it was confusing but we got third the jumping phase of the classic and first in the flat phase making us reserve champion which i was pretty excited about. I think in the pre adult I got a 5th, 4th, and 3rd on Daisy and a 1st, 3rd, and 4th on the other horse Joey (super green too) who I rode for a student that cant seem to ride without falling off haha.
I am still really working on trying to see my distances and for the most part I got a lot of htem except a few that were super obvious. I am sure it will get better over time and Daisy will be happy to have a month off during xmas break 
Anyway here is the video.
