This month started with an Easter trail ride at Equine Sports Breeding. Rumble and Itravelled up on the Friday to stay overnight for the big ride on Saturday. Weset out in the morning on our ride which was 15km to the spot where we had anamazing relaxing lunch by the river. Rumble was quite relaxed which I wassurprised about because along the way there were many scary cows and sheep. Hewas also very good crossing the river, going straight through the water withouteven hesitating which is a good sign for water jumps! We followed the riveraround until we got to a nice spot where there was a sand bank down to thewater. We all took the horses down to the water for a drink and Rumble had afun time splashing around. after we had eaten we went for an easter egg huntand then started our 15km back so by the time we got back he was very tired.
On the easter Monday I had a showjumping competition on ESBGolden Ambition (Greta) at Drysdale Leopold Pony Club. We didn’t place at all but we got twoclear rounds which made me happy and as soon as we finished we were on our wayback up to Equine Sports Breeding. It was Greta's first time back in a few years and was a bit unsure to start with but settled down well. Westayed with Vanessa for the week and I got to spend heaps of time with ESBIrish Judge. We worked with her for the week which started with her being ponied out in thebush and gradually built up to me being able to ride her in the round yard.
I had another showjumping competition with ESB GoldenAmbition at Leighdale Pony Club. We went clear in our first round but didn’tplace and in our second round we went clear making it into the Jump off andwent clear again to come 5th.
