I was entered with Jack today in the BE100 at Balcarres, from the photos it looked like it would be fabulous but unfortunately the torrential rain we had for days leading up to the event forced the organisers to sadly cancel. I really don't blame them, they must be gutted. I also heard from a friend who ran in the Novice yesterday and she said it was such a shame as the ground was very muddy.
I really hope it doesn't put them off organising and that they run one next year.
Anyway, was having a little chat with John when I found out it wasn't running and said I might take Jack over to Rowallan as they had a progressive show on indoors. He said that would be fine
I then asked if he thought I should register as they have a 6 month membership - John mentioned that last year I did this and only went to 2 shows
I did say in my defense that the weather was rotten and we did manage
to be placed at those 2 shows so at least I won some money back whereas I
wouldn't on a ticket 
John said that it might be worth giving it a try again as I have Trudy the Truck now, and if any more events cancel I can rearrange the day to go BS instead if I am a member. I was quite surprised that he agreed but renewed immediately
. Unfortunately I have yet to mention that the computer would only let me renew Jack for a whole year (not 6 months)
so it looks like I'm going to have to do some 3 days over winter to show him its worth it!Got up at 6am which isn't too bad considering what times I have been up before. Bathed and plaited (decided to plait as his mane is a tad long and I couldn't be bothered to pull it)
I thought I might miss the British Novice (90cms to those who don't know - like my John
)
but I arrived as the first one went in. Entered and headed back to the
lorry. Threw tack on and then climbed aboard only to remember I hadn't
even watched one go so had no idea of the track!!! Idiot that I am! Thankfully Rowallan has a big enough entrance that I could watch one go. It was a 2 phase and someone thankfully pointed out that there was a fence 14 - I would have missed it!
Warmed up and went in. It was a lovely track with loads of room, J popped round for fun, and ended up with a double clear. I did try to do an easy flowing turn inside fence 3 back to fence 10 but J was having none of it as there was a large white plastic horse standing next to fence 3 surrounded by flowers!!! Lost a bit of time trying to convince him before giving up and going round
but I was a bit gobsmacked when they announced we had come 2nd (out of 30)! So we won £20 (John will be pleased) a nice frilly and if I remember correctly £12 notional on his card to add to last years £2
Discovery (1m class) wasn't as good. Firstly I didn't warm up well as there was only a couple of us in the collecting ring, the upright was a nice height so after warming up I popped it a few times, then went to jump the spread only it was around 1.20m
there was some guy and his grooms building it bigger each time. So I
waited until they finished, but they walked off and left it big 
by this point I was next to go, so jumped the upright a few more times and went it. Now the first fence (a parallel
)
was beside the scary gremlim of a plastic white horse and J hit it
quite hard. I thought he had it down and later in the round I saw the
coursebuilder standing close to the jump so assumed he had put it back
up again. Once over fence 8 (2 phase again) I carried on to the double,
(expecting the bell to go off) cantered wide around the arena with no
bell still so decided to carry on, had the next fence, but jumped the
rest lovely.Annoyingly we ended up with 7 time and 4 faults. Kicking myself about it now!
Anyway, following the Discovery, I made a cup of tea using the lorry stove (for the first time
) and sat and shared a packet of crisps with dug and watched an episode of friends (have the full set in my lorry now ) while Jack dried off and had a munch. No piccies of me jumping, should have worn my helmet cam but not sure about BS rules on that. The only pics I can show you is of my chief course walker:
Note she has a seat belt for safety in the cab! (and the photo was taken while we were stationary!)
And J in the truck:
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