We came 2nd! Not bad for our first attempt at Intermediate level! With 1 ball down and a few time penalties we held our place to come 2nd overall. Its been an amazing weekend with glorious sunshine the entire time. Now for the long trek home and back to uni to start actually doing some work as my exams are rapidly approaching!

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Double clear! Jasper and I repeated last years feat to have the most amazing double clear!!
This enabled us to keep our 4th place meaning we have qualified to move up a level to compete at National Intermediate level next season. This is particularly good news to me as standing presentation is only compulsory in Novice classes and with my very old carriage we do not always get very good scores for this no matter how clean everything is.
Galloping round the arena on our lap of honour was the mo...
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Dressage went well today after the ever scary standing presentation. The going was far heavier than I had anticipated and I was pleased with another score of 57 and 48/50 in both phases respecitvely. However the best part of today is our fantastic double clear in the cones. I was really annoyed with the time penalties I had last time at Ashfields and was determined not to have any today. I also kept trying to remind myself I had driven far more technical courses than this one and we didn't to...
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Today was the final day of Ashfields National and we were the first driver in the arena this morning; an experience I always find nerve wracking. Jasper was fab today and we had a great clear with just a smidgen of time penalties. That is the annoying thing about going first is you have no idea how tight you are going to be on time, but oh well, nothing I can do about it. I was really chuffed with this until the judges told me I was eliminated! My heart just sank. They told me I had not drive...
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