EVENING JUMPING

My finger is mended now thank goodness and I can ride again HOORAY! This week I rode Ellie properly for the first time (I hurt my finger a few days before she arrived and have been desperate to get on her but didn't want to risk breaking it again). She is a lovely, sweet horse and I know I will have to sell her quickly otherwise I will want to keep her! I jumped her a couple of times at home in the field and really liked her, so took her evening showjumping at Trent Valley Equestrian centre this evening. She jumped fantastically in the 65cm getting a double clear round and coming 3rd. This was really suprising because I kind of forgot the course in the jump off and went a really long way round to the 3rd jump, which must have wasted loads of time - so it just shows how quick she was to still come 3rd. We also did the 75cm class but had the FIRST jump down AARRGHH nothing more annoying (except the last jump maybe).

She is a very easy horse to jump and basically just needs to be pointed and steered! I was telling Jon on the way home how I would have loved to have had her when I was a teenager - my 13.2hh Whisky would always get into the jump off by jumping very slow and precise rounds but once in the jump off no amount of kicking (or wishing) would make her go faster! Whisk was brill in other ways though and we used to kick ass in the big wall classes (higher and higher) and win all the riding club dressage tests!

I have put a new horsemart advert on today, with reduced prices - this is because there are several horses I am wanting to buy at the moment - but don't want too many at once at this time of year. - I intend to sell a couple before I restock.

We are starting our woodchip riding menage next week - can't wait to have somewhere a bit drier to ride the horses in. Our fields are very wet at the moment, but then It is January, so what do I expect!

Jon took some pics of Ellie with her rossette, but the camera is downstairs and Violet (our lovely baby/toddler daughter is asleep next to me. I just know that if I go and fetch it, she will roll out of bed (even though she hasn't moved a muscle for the last hour). So apologies, but I will upload pics tomorrow. Night night xxx