The first few days after arriving were spent getting organise and lightly working the boys. Lucky finds the warm up the most terrifying place on earth. With his highly tuned flight instinct he believes the noisy Spanish hooves are a stampede and just wants to get the hell of out there! It gets pretty hectic and the normal rules don't apply, loose dogs and galloping in the warm up is acceptable here, the weakess gives way!
A quiet moment in the warm up
Our tack room
After a good work out with Lucky on Monday we decided to enter him in the National PSG class as a warm up given the fact he's only done one test this year. He was fab, coming 2ND on 66%, a really smooth test with hardly any mistakes.
Bugsy was still suffering from the journey a so we arranged for a sports massage for both of them. A lady called Gillian was here with her friend so she gave them a thorough session each.
Wednesday was the trot up then Carl helped me work Bugsy for a while, mostly just trying to loosen him up.That evening they drew the times for the CDI PSG and we were relieved to find that Bugsy was not on until Friday giving him another crucial day to recover.
Lucky was not on until 6pm on the Thursday so it gave me chance to work them both in the morning. The weather was starting to turn and just as I got on to warm up it turned torrential.Lucky was in turbo mode but still managed a reasonable score of 65% despite being on the edge through allthe canter work, he finished joint 2nd after the first half.
Busgy's time was also late on Friday second last to go, I worked him in the morning again, he was starting to let go and relax more and the weather was gorgeous. By the time we came out to warm up at 5.40 he was feeling like a different horse, the swing was back and I felt like we were back on form, Carl helped me warm up and was such a great help, ‘looks amazing ‘ is exactly what I needed to hear before going in! Just as we took off the bandages it started to rain and really rain. We headed up the slope to the main arena just as the rain became torrential, fortunately coming from England with no indoor school it didn’t phase us one bit and he did a super test. With a huge cheer and Carl telling me I should ride in the rain all the time I guessed it looked good. The rain then stopped in time for the next horse, typical! We waited ages to find out my score, then finally they announced in 1st place Valegro, in 2nd place Walkman BC on 69%! I couldn’t believe it; I knew it was a good test but WOW!>
A cup!
We are all so pleased and really looking forward to the rest of the show. Lucky finished in 9th and is capable of a much better test. Saturday is the first half of the Inter I, Lucky is on at 4.30 and Bugsy is on Sunday at 4pm. Lets hope the rain stops as this mornings classes were cancelled, Sunshine Tour eh?!
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