Home sweet home and a nice hot bath was very much needed this evening had a manic weekend-8 ponies, me, Bill (the driver) and 2 kids=lots of work for me! Bill is 73 so can't really help much around the ponies but does well in the ring to drive 4 pairs of ponies. Usually another lady would come with me but she was unavailable this weekend.
We left friday afternoon and when we got there there was stables to set up, ponies to walk, lorry to clean out, our beds to set up, feed, hay ,water etc so by the time I had finished and we'd actually managed to eat ourselves I was about ready to sleep lots. As soon as my head hit the pillow i was well away in the land of nod! For a while untill the ponies started banging but to be honest I was so tired I was straight back asleep. Up at 7 ready for the new day. The ponies were all lively as I expected the first show of the season and we had two new pairings. The big ponies went first (over 12hh but under 14.2hh). Our better big pair were a little disappointing s they had two cones down but Bill says it was him not quite having his eye in as it was the first proper round he's done since Holland in November. Then the second pair of bigs (spic and span) went in and did a super round to come 2nd in the class which we were extremely pleased with. Well done the girls they were the best they have been for ages so maybe this year will be a turning point for them fingers crossed.
Then the smalls were in the afternoon and well was a little different from the morning class for us. The pairs are both different this year and although we have 3 out of the original 4 small ponies they have all been mixed up. First in were Bright and Breezy with a new Breezy. breezy being the original dave from chaz and dave. Well they were very strong in the warm up. We went through cones 1,2,3 and 4 and then 5 was the box (a U-turn) well we wanted to go left but the ponies had other ideas and turned right into a fence hmm so not the plan then we managed to get out and continued. However we then went down the slalom and had to pull out as bill couldn't stop so we had to retire after i had grabbed one rein and he had the other. Hmmmm so not the plan!!
Chaz and Dave did a nice steady but clear round which was what we wanted so were very pleased with them. So neither pair got into the championship which meant unusually for us we only had one pair in the championship which made for a slighty easier day today.
Really pleased with Spic and Span they came second in the championship what super ponies. Really nice smooth round and the smoother you can keep it the better the time as then you can keep the speed up. It was really nice to get back out and see all scurry driver as I did very few shows last year so I am really looking forward to this season.
Am now home and extremely tired so am off to bed. Wouldn't it be nice to have a magic wand to be able to help those around you when they need you most? Sometimes we don't have the answers and it always happens when we could really do with them so we just have to wait and see as hard as it may seem sometimes it just helps to sit back...........
Friends are the family you choose. x
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