Busy weekend.
Our troops attended two different shows during the weekend.
Friday was Camden ag show.
Camden has changed their timetable from two days to one day with two rings, because of last year's aftermath of EI.
The result means more room to warm up and ride ,no harness horses, sorry they are a real hazard for us and we had a really good day.
Camden Show has reinvented itself in the last few years.
They have changed and enlarged their parking and the water taps are close as is the toilet block,all considerations when we have very early starts and late finishes.
John Valance and Jane Frankum are the chief organizers. Jane is the main steward/marshall and she is wonderful. John was the CD in the number one ring, his tracks always take some jumpingbecause of their technical nature and the light rails. The jumping equipment is very attractive, the footing was great and the numbers were good. There were 40 entries on the mini Prix for instance but only 8 horses fronted up for the GP. There were some notable ommissions because of the big event in NZ last week.
Brad Longhurst from Canberra was the CD in the 2nd ring and he is coming along very well. He is keen to learn and is putting in the miles and hours to be as good as he can.
Australia certainly needs more keen CD's.
Our troops had a day called experience, a rail here and there enough to put us out of the money.
Peter Carcary rode his horse Poet's Corner for a clear in the mini prix and he had a go in the GP for one down in the first round.
Peter did marvellously as he hasn't ridden in a class since riding Poet in the World Cup at Toowoomba in August 08.
We went to the local jump club on Sunday for the Hawkesbury Riding Club's annual jumping day.
Hawkesbury runs their days at our jump club and we have a crossover of members.
Harry was the main rider yesterday, he rode two young TB chestnuts, and he had a go with Dale again.
The two TB's haven't been out and they coped very well, both jumped around the 60cm and the 75 without penalty.
Harry was placed 2nd and 5th so he was very pleased.
I was 4th and 5th with Tango in the 1.05 and 1.10m.
Harry had a very busy day and he rode well. It was the sort of day riders to have to enlarge their experience.
When we can get an uninterrupted run at the computer we will put some pics up.
cheers,
colleen