Results, Rocking Horse III

Doc jumped double clean in stadium with no problem and then skipped around cross country with 3.2 time faults and no jumping faults.  He finished 7th out of 24 in his preliminary division.  More importantly, however, is the fact that our test run was a great success and his knee is stone cold today.  I think Doc is officially back in action.  He will run intermediate in two weeks and then Advanced at Southern Pines in March.  It is almost time to bring the "R" word (Rolex) back into our vocabulary.  If we run well at Southern Pines, we will make another bid for Rolex this year.  Jet also jumped clean on cross country, but with a few more time faults he finished 14th overall.

We had a really fun weekend with a lot of people in town to visit us.  The Wetherills came to see their horses run and my student Lynn Rzonca, who also rides at Ardfuar in Pennsylvania, came down for four days with her parents for a little mini-vacation.  My mom and Holley also came to the show.  Pictured here are the Wetherills, Holley (in the pink hat), me, Jet (the chestnut) and Doc (the bay).

    

How surreal life is!  Today is the first day of Rocking Horse Winter III and here I am at the show grounds on my wireless card catching up on my blog!  I am competing Jet and Doc at preliminary here this weekend.  Between last weekend and this weekend life has been crazy as I tried to catch up after the show last weekend, finish my taxes, host another event rider from Texas, and do a final few schools to prep for this weekend.  On top of all of this, the Wetherills are visiting this weekend as well as my student Lynn Rzonca and her parents. 

Today we did dressage and show jumping and tomorrow we do cross country.  Jet scored a 37.5 in dressage and Doc scored a 38.3 with a different judge.  Jet jumped stadium well but took one rail down.  Doc will go at 4:44.  Below are some final pictures from last weekend.  The horse pictures are the Irish draught stallion K.E.C. Double Diamond.  I rode him for my dressage instructor here in Ocala, Jutta Heinshon.  We competed in novice and it was his first horse trials.  "Oisin" was fabulous and jumped clean everywhere to finish fifth of about twenty four horses.  Our go inspired Jutta to compete him at a dressage show in a few weeks.  

I'm off to ride Doc! 

Ashley 

Gavin jumping a bench.

Gavin's Glory in beginner novice at his first event.

Gavin's Glory is my mom's off the track thoroughbred that she bought last year.  He has been in training with me since the beginning of December and he just did his first horse trials at the beginner novice level this past weekend.  He was a champion and finished third in his division.  He is for sale.  Does anyone need a thoroughbred event horse?

Pictures from the weekend

Hi All!  Sorry I haven't gotten these up sooner.  I'm trying to get our taxes all squared away!  This set is of Monte competing at training level last weekend.  

Doc is back to jumping

The best news of the last few weeks is that Doc is jumping again and his leg is doing fine.  The Wetherills are planning to visit us in another ten days and they will be just in time to see Doc back to competing.  I am going to run him in the prelim division at Rocking Horse the weekend of the 20th to the 22nd.  We will see if his knee holds up to the competing and then go from there.  

This weekend at the Ocala Horse Trails I am competing my mom's horse Gavin (pictured at bottom) in his first event in the BN division, the Irish stallion Oisin (pictured below) in his first event in the novice division, and my horse Monte in the training horse division.  In general, there are not as many snow birds down here this winter, but this show will be going strong with over 440 entries.  

I'll report more over the weekend.

Ashley