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Saturday 6th July Combined Training

Sam Penn

Easy day for me today, the youngsters are all doing combined training and luckily for me it is at Golden Cross where I am based! So nice to be able to compete without having to go out in the lorry.

I rode Frankie in the Walk & Trot Test, he would of won but I competed him HC.Very pleased with his 4th place in the prelim 4 as he is struggling with the canter, and cantering a small circle is a big ask! He has only been backed a couple of weeks, being at a party and warming up with other horses is exhausting! Good experience and something he will grow from mentally.

 

Annoyingly Wesley did the BE100 and did't get as good a dressage mark as he usually would and seemed to be slightly playing in his mouth. I was very pleased with his showjumping round as he can be slightly 'inattentive' over a fence, but he jumped a fantastic clear to finish a respectable 5th.

 

Flight did a somewhat extravagant dressage test, but the judge loved him and even though he had a careless fence down he won!

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