I never thought I would type that. A year ago, the BN xc fences looked big to me. Then novice fences looked big. When they started to look small, I thought maybe we could do training. (The maybe is for me, not Farrah). Pictures are courtesy of my friend, Jitka Hyniova.
We were tied for 2nd in dressage with a 37. Not great, but certainly not too bad for our first outing at training. It was nice and cool and Farrah was quite energetic. We pulled a rail in stadium, totally my fault. I came too far forward up Farrah's neck. We also incurred a few time penalties.
XC was amazing and I rode Farrah conservatively (ie slow, she isn't super fit). The coffin line rode well, as did a log drop to a hut. The gallop tables were incredible, as was the corner and she nailed the log drop into water with coup out. Our only issue was a small bending line through the trees. I thought we had scored a refusal, but apparently blowing sideways and taking the jump from basically a walk was not! We had 12 seconds in time but finished in 5th. So proud of her! So now she is a training eventer, with me thinking maybe I could eventually try preliminary. We'll see :)
