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Summer

9/22/2017

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It’s amazing how quickly time gets away! We’ve had a good summer, and preparing for our Fall horse trials, I realize how much time has gone by since my last entry.

I’ve been staying local this summer, competing at events around Area 2 to save some money. The highlight of my season so far has been riding Volcan and doing his first 1-star at Plantation, where he finished fifth. He’s such a good jumper and a fun horse to compete. I have been lucky enough to have Rem (Urrem) out twice, doing the Preliminary at Loudoun Pony Club Horse Trials. It was the best that Loudoun has ever been, so hats off to the organizing committee and crew there! Rem also ran Seneca in the Intermediate in the pouring rain and managed to win in spite of having two rails down. To be honest, I think she didn’t see that well because it was raining so hard. Now she’s is going to have a little break and I'll bring her out next year. 
Anita Antenucci and my Dashwood (Nora) has has been a bit unlucky this summer. First, she got cut in the field and had to her hock flushed, so she missed about six weeks. Luckily, the hock has come back great. Then, I missed a turn on the cross-country at Loudoun and got a 20 because of poor planning. Nora was amazing at Seneca, but because they were running so late in dressage I was on her for about one-and-a-half hours and she was over warm-up. At CDCTA she pulled a shoe in the dressage and then proceeded to pull the same shoe in the show jumping when she went to take off, getting her hind foot stuck in her front. I almost fell off, and though I didn’t know at time, her shoe was halfway off. Unfortunately, she was favoring that foot so I decided not to run cross-country. 

Kortina handled the bigger jumps at Training well and finished 8th at Seneca. Although she’s not quite ready to run for time and fully understand her job, she will soon enough. 

I’m planning to run Morven with my horses, then go to Boekelo as a Selector. I’m looking forward to that because I’ve never been. I’ll be at Fair Hill as a Selector as well. To end my season, I plan to run the CCI* at Virginia with Volcan.

We're supposed to have great weather this weekend for our Surefire Horse Trials, and the really wet August has made for great footing and green grass. I'll let you know how it goes!
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