A brilliant day with my top lad Rory. We FINALLY got out to our first event of 2013 and it wasn't even showing. Local riding club was running showcross so decided to take him and enter the prenovice as he wasn't been jumped properly since last year and actually has very little experience jumping in a competition environment.
First had to get him in as he's currently living out and decided that the major advantage with jumping is that he's black and doesn't need to be clean (as long as mud was flicked off he looked fine). He loaded himself as I was tying his haynet up in the wagon and Em let him go at the bottom so he promptly came and joined me.
He really was mr cool to warm up with loads of other ponies whizzing round the only bit of interest was a coloured mare he took a fancy to.
The round was brill he was so honest if a bit looky and went round with only one refusal at a fence that caught nearly everyone out.

He went straight over on second attempt and rocked round the rest of the course. As I had gone first I then had a very long wait as the class was huge. Didn't really expect anything but the fence had everybody and Rory only went and won the class as the only one on 4 faults.

Now all I need to do is get Pait in the school to practice a dressage test for her first ever ridden outing, walk/trot test next sunday!