Show Day 2

Last Thursday was show day 2 for Liam and I.  The plan for the day was for me to do one .80 and for my trainer to do Liam over a .90 class. 

We had a huge storm come through overnight and I pulled into the horse show at about 6:15am to a soggy mess.  I quickly sent my husband a text to not drive my car to the show grounds as it would get stuck.  I fish tailed it all the way to the tents to park with the truck.  I thought, hopefully the grounds dry out by the time I need to leave later or I am never going to get out of here. 

I arrived to Liam's stall to a wide eyed horse ready for his morning lunge.  He just needs that 10 minutes on the lunge to move around.  After the lunge we headed over near the ring to hand graze.

The photographers got this beautiful picture of Liam and I hand grazing.

Popped Liam back in his stall to walk the course.  My course had one tricky turn in it that I was a bit concerned about from jump 1 to 2, but my trainer was confinced that I could handle the inside turn without a problem.  Went back and tacked up Liam and headed off to the schooling ring.   Liam was quiet.  Hopped over a few jumps, trying to wake Liam up and then headed into the ring.

Liam seemed half awake to jump 1, 2, and 3.  The turn from jump 1 to 2 wasn't as bad as I thought we just were kind of backwards and he never changed his lead.  Tried to wake him up from 2 to 3, but I failed to get him balanced, just opened up his stride, so got a flyer to 3 whiched ended up in a rail.  Then we were awake and the rest of the course was beautiful.  I was all smiles leaving the ring again.

For our efforts in the .80s this week we walked away with a rail in each class, but some ribbons out of 16! Yay!

After my class, Liam was able to go get hosed off and a short rest in his stall before he had to come out to show in the .90 class.  I tacked him up and my trainer hopped on.  He warmed up beautiful.

Nice and relaxed canter in the schooling ring.

My trainer and Liam learning the course.

Then it was time for them to go in.  The jumps were a solid .90 meters.  As my trainer was walking in the ring I said to her, good luck and by the way this is the biggest course this horse has ever jumped.  Liam preformed beautiful.  He was a little green in the combination and drifted right and had a rail, but the rest of the course was very nice.  I am really proud of my boy.

The plan for the next day was to have Alicia do 1 .90 class in the big grand prix ring.  All our classes so far were in the side ring (which is pretty big too).

Stay tuned for the last day of week one.