23RD SEPTEMBER 07- HILL HOUSE UNAFFILIATED SJ FINALS.

We had anticipated this show for a couple of weeks and and were looking forward, with Molly qualified in the green novice and novice finals and Jayde in the open finals we had it all to play for.

Everything was running late on arrival and due to my injury of my achilles tendon, i decided to put Jayde in the Novice Derby Championship instead and let leona take her in the Open Champs. Anyway we walked them round the grounds to loosen them up when it came to Light that Molly is petrified of Donkeys and thats what had been spooking her in that arena.

In the Green Novice Molly had one stop and in NoviCe Championship she went clear and then again in the jump off but it wasnt really Mollys sort of jump off course and she came 11th. Everything now running really late and darkness closing in on the non flood lit arena they decided to time the first round of the rest of the classes, i cant deny i was nervous but i decided to keep it steady to help me build my confidence back and it worked jayde put in the best round and went clear, jumping as and when i asked, unfortunately i was 0.28secs outside of medal positions but i Came 7th in the Derby Championship, now really dark Leona took jayde in the Open Championship which stood between 3'3 and 3'6 and had one rail however with only one clear in the class Leona and Jayde took Fourth place and won a medal too, a great day back for my first show!

The weekend after we went to sandtoft to practice for the hunter trial on ther 7th of october and i'll let you all know how that went later on.
Laura x