06/10/2025
Spring Windermere 2025 was a successful, if wet, show. At least I was sitting in the barns when the crazy rainstorm went through and not caught out on course or in the ring!
Both horses got good dressage scores (29.7 for Valor and 30 for Gracie. I’m consistent I guess 😂). Valor had some issues leaving warmup at the startbox but once past jump one and through the tree line had a focused, careful, cross country round.
Poor Gracie had to do her first beginner novice as a mud run. She handled the terrain well; she was a little more cautious than Val but that’s to be expected. She glanced off two of the “scarier” jumps that were pretty muddy at the base but circled around and went right over them. Gracie was the last to go in the division and it looked like a couple jumps had been painted with a brown stripe of mud down the middle 😂
Both horses were pretty slow around the course but I preferred that they have a confidence boosting run in what’s the muddiest terrain either has seen yet than to try and push for speed. The footing at Longview held up pretty well and I was pleased that neither horse ever felt in danger of slipping or loosing their grip.
I didn’t ride either perfect in show jumping but felt that both had major improvements there and came away better educated from the experience.
Looking forward to Silverwood in July!
Thanks to Nexus Saddlery MidWest Saddle Fit Norse Horse Designs danielson CJF for keeping the horses fit, happy, and well turned out.
