Well, its been a fairly crazy few weeks with lots of dressage and showjumping outings and lots of lessons, so at the moment things look to be progressing well and hopefully we shall be ready for our first outing which is planned to be to Isleham. Mary Ann Horn is my dressage trainer and she has been helping me get to grips with the moves that I will be finding at advanced level such as half pass and flying changes, having an experienced horse like Smurf has helped enormously with this although poor Brooke has a lot to learn, but he is getting to grips with it pretty well and my new 'magic potion' called Perfect Performance from Forest Farmacy is is really helping to keep his anxiety levels under control. As ever Brooke's showjumping has been super with two 1sts and a 3rd from two outings.
Coevers Diamond Clover has progressed exceptionally well over the winter and is being much more polite about his dressage now regularly scoring 65%+ at novice level, I am hoping he remains as nice outside the safety of four walls and in large open spaces, although I am learning not to get involved in a test of strength as he will win everytime, sometimes though, that is easier said than done. His jumping has been fab, he has already got 4 double clears at both British Novice and Discovery level plus 2 already from his only two starts in Newcomers in which he has been 1st and 3rd, I will be quite sad to see him go when the time comes but he will very soon be for sale as his owners are rather overstocked.
Perhaps my biggest piece of news was of my 'stage debut' in our local village pantomime, I played the part of the Genie in Aladdin, dressed up all in pink with large fake boobs and a pink wig (with tiara)!!!! It was great fun but I dont think I shall be giving up the day job and moving to Hollywood just yet.
I cant believe we have already done entries for Isleham, eeeeeekk, its nearly that time again....
