Sunday 10 June 2012

EGB Fordingbridge Riding Club team endurance

Yesterday I headed over to The New Forest with the endurance team from Rogate and District Riding Club, there were four of us in the team, myself on Cognac, Dawn Knee on Derry, Oona Hickson on Aggie and Sharon Wright on Aisie. I was quite a drive over with the trailer and meant an early start all round. After a bad weather report luckily the weather managed to stay fairly dry while we got round. The going was really lovely, all 33km of it and It was really nice to finish the ride on the long, straight grassy stretches of the UK Chasers course.

After a bit of a hectic ride last time the endurance team headed out, we decided to split into two groups, so Cognac and I paired up with Dawn and Derry for the ride. Cognac was impeccably well behaved around the ride and returned to the venue still bouncing. As we took the horses down to the final vetting I thought we had a grade 1 in the bag, only for Cognac to throw a wobbly in front of the vet, which sent his heart rate rocketing and when we managed to hold him still long enough to get a pulse rate, it measured in at 60 bpm! So we finished with a completion but were un-graded.

Thank- you so much to Dawn for organising the team and all our entries, Shaun for driving us over (and holding Cognac for me when he was being a pain) and Paige for crewing and taking photos.




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