I started out 2014 with a trip up to Vanessas with ESB Irish Whisper, Rumble and Judge (Judge Judy) for a week. We spent the week working to get Rumble ready for his first competition and to be able to ride Judge Judy for the first time. Rumble was perfect all week and we even started to canter into some small small showjumps and went out and schooled over some x-country jumps. By the end of the week he was well and trully ready to get out competing.
We started out ponying Judge Judy out around the bush off of Whisper. She was so good that within a couple of days she was ready for me to get on and be ponied around the bush. after a lap around the bush we went into the round yard where we were let off the lead and were able to walk and trot all by our selves! the next day we went for a ride around the bush off the lead with the only problem being that she didn't quite understand what I was asking when I used my legs.
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| ESB Irish Rumble (45cm round) |
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| ESB Irish Whisper (90cm Round) |
On the 11th and 12th of January I competed at Terang Showjumping with ESB Irish Whisper and Rumble. It was a little bit scary for Rumble as it was his first competition. On the Saturday I started out with a 30/35 cm round on Rumble which went surprisingly well. He was quite nervous in the warm up because there were lots of small ponies which kept coming very close to him. Once we were in the ring he calmed down alot more and seemed to have a heap of fun. over the weekend we did 5 rounds of showjumping and managed to work our way up to a 50cm round. Whisper started out doing an 80cm round and only knocked one rail. over the weeked we managed to work our way up to doing a 1m round which was slightly messy and we knocked 3 rails but it was also the highest that we had jumped together.
