Pop was very excited to be eventing again and came off the lorry rather wired and dragged my poor mum around the lorry park for a while, but thankfully then settled down into his normal chilled mode. He warmed up very sweetly for the dressage and went in and did a nice, fluent test, apart from inserting an extra canter transition into the trot work when it wasn't needed! Very pleased with a score of 25.5 but there were some fantastic tests in my section so there were actually a lot of scores in the twenties. The show jumping was interesting as I didn't ride my best and let Pop get rather long and fast, but thankfully he helped me out and jumped a clear round regardless. Finally on to the cross country and he stormed round a fairly testing course to finish clear and inside the time which gained us 6th place! So a very positive start to the eventing season. Really grateful to Nigel Goddard of KSDigital for taking these fantastic photos:
I was back at Tweseldown on the Sunday to ride Polly Affect for Ania Cox - she is a fantastic mare with a lovely temperament but has had some problems cross country. Really pleased with a score of 30 in the dressage and clear in the show jumping, and she jumped nicely round most of the cross country course but unfortunately then decided that the jump before the water was far too scary and we ended up walking home.