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Midsouth Pony Club horse trials

June 24, 2009 on 10:17 pm | In Events | No Comments

It was a hot weekend in Lexington for the Midsouth Pony Club horse trials! Susie Gertz competed Practical Magic in the Open Training division and started the weekend with one of the best dressage tests that I’ve seen this pair perform. They set out on XC with a respectable 35.8. An unfortunate run-out early in the course over the challenging course at a Trakehner dropped them down a bit. However, they finished Sunday just adding a few time penalties (like many of the other entries) to the final score and landing them in 10th.
As if competing one horse in the heat wasn’t hard enough, Susie also competed her mare, Zooby-Doo, in her first BN. I was very pleased with their dressage test and, unfortunately, disappointed that their score wasn’t better. Such is norm many times – just when you think it’s a good test, it seems the judge never seems to agree. However, they continued onto stadium w/ a very nice, hunter-like round w/ the exception of one greenie glance-off at the second fence. Sunday morning, they set out on XC and were rolling around their first BN course with the confidence of a pair that had been competing much longer. It was definitely a confidence-building weekend for the pair and I’m anxious to see how they progress through the season.
Next up is Gemwood events right in our backyard at Twin Towers.