Three rides for me to finish off a long but enjoyable season.
Ballycullane Dundee in the BE100 and Argentinus taking on his second novice and Angellus stepping up the grade to his first novice.
The track had plenty of technical questions including a corner to roll top as well as a bounce into water, so plenty to ask of the inexperienced novices.
Angellus was first of the 3 horses, he did a rather wobbly, green test and his mark resembled this but then followed this up with a nice round in the show jumping having just two down on the much bigger track to what he is used to. Then a fantastic clear XC being very accurate and bold but we just took it steady for his first run at this level incurring rather alot of time faults.
Argentinus did a nice test but loosing his bounce this late on in the season and is in need of a holiday to take in everything he has learnt this season. He behaved well and scored an average mark. Show jumping he felt fantastic and jumped the most amazing clear! certainly feeling plenty of bounce in this phase! XC he was going very well and towards the end of the course at the water he had a stop at the log before the bounce step in - something he had defiantly not seen before and completely took him by surprise but very willingly he jumped it well on the second attempt such a shame but yet another thing he has learnt about this season!
Plenty of things for both horses to think about over the winter now. holiday time for Argentinus after a long season and for Angellus a few months of Dressage and Show jumping for him!!
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