Plantation Field Event

Ashley is having fine rides at Plantation Field Event in Unionville, PA, this weekend. Monte Carlo has completed his very first preliminary level event in fine style with a score of 38.9. Ashley reported that Monte liked the bigger jumps and went clean in both stadium and on cross country in spite of a serious water jump at the end of cross country and a somewhat tricky stadium. Ashley took him on a sweeping track in stadium so he had significant time faults, and he had time faults on cross country as well. In spite of the time, he still finished with a 6th in the Preliminary Horse Futurity for horses 7 and under in their first year at prelim. Go Monte!

Ashley said Jet was a handful in dressage yesterday - different from his usual steady, quiet self - so he scored a 65.5 in the CIC **, his last qualifier before the Fair Hill CCI** in October. That put the pair in 14th out of 28 after the dressage phase. On cross country today Jet and Ashley made a fast clean effort finishing with only a few time faults.  Placings after cross country had not been posted when Ashley called to ask me to be a guest blogger for her tonight since she will not have a computer in her hands again until at least Monday.

Ashley noted that the weather is beautiful this weekend for the event and that Mr. Wetherill came to watch the horses on dressage day and that he and Babbie came today and enjoyed watching the two horses jump clean on cross country. Tomorrow Jet jumps stadium. Let's hope he lives up to his name!

Respectfully submitted by Pam Johnson