Again
this month it has been a fight against the weather most of the time were
getting wet and when its not raining we nearly get blown away. ESB Golden
Ambition and I spent a week at Equine Sports Breeding. We spent the week
working with ESB Irish Judge and teaching Greta how to pony her so that she will hopefully be able to come home soon.
On the Sunday we had pony club and ESB Irish Rumble got to
come along and have a look. He was very chilled out about it, having a look at
everything. The only time he got nervous was when we took Greta away because he
couldn’t understand why he couldn’t go with her.
The next week we had a big interschools competition at
Werribee. In our showjumping we had poles in two of our rounds and managed to
go clear in the third but didn’t go fast enough to be able to do very well. Our
dressage was a bit of a disaster with Greta finding the sand hiting the side of
the arena very scary and not wanting to go near it. But even so we still
managed to get a 59% and a 64%.
On
the Sunday after interschools Greta pretended to be a racehorse in the speed to safety trial at Geelong
Racecourse. The idea of Speed to safety is to ride at a given pace over a given
distance. We had to ride 1000m in 120 seconds. The two people from the zone who
have been able to get closest to the given time in the two trials go through to the
final at Moonee Valley racecourse on the 25th of August. At the
first trial our two qualifying times were 122 seconds and 118 seconds, only two
seconds off the time. the final trial is on the 3rd of August where
we will have two more goes at getting as close to the 120 seconds as possible. 