Carlos and I headed to our first showjumping yesterday and I'm still beaming from ear to ear!! Carlos being a very spooky horse usually refuses to go over one pole on the floor so I've been gradually building him up and I felt it was time to try out the real stuff and get out to a competition.
The aim of the day was to get him over the fences and hopefully get a confidence giving round. I planned to enter the 50cm and enter it again HC if needed but as soon as I did some warm-up jumped I felt as long as we got over the first fence in the course we would hopefully be ok.
I'm over the moon that I've worked out how to ride him so he's not thinking about stopping, there were some super scary fillers and although they weren't under the fences completely they were still heading towards the middle of the fences so he definitely could have taken a look. However, the biggest spook I got was coming around the corner from one over to fence two when the inside turn was close to fence four and he looked at the fillers there.
In the 50cm we had to do the jump-off straight after the first round if clear and silly me forgot where I was going. However, Carlos seems to have a naturally fast canter when jumping and is quite agile and we were able to get some nice tight turns around a couple of fences making up some time to take 4th place!
In the 60cm, he absolute flew. He knew exactly what his job was and took on every jump. In the jump-off, we did the same turns and because I didn't have my moment of hesitation forgetting where I was going like I did in the 50cm we managed to take 2nd place.
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