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| Not pictured: The profanity leaving my mouth |
The annual pilgrimage to Aiken in late February was yet another amazing time. I am so lucky to have a horse like Hampton who puts up with my shit rolls along with anything I ask of him, and the friends who enable the insanity.
We spent the first few days hacking and lightly schooling. Sunday included a trip to The Vista where I was peer pressured and tricked encouraged to try some cross country jumps and see where we were at. The Vista is absolutely gorgeous and features a very friendly starter/BN field as a warm up, complete with a little water and tiny banks.
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| Yep that's a jump saddle! |
To my surprise, Hampton was GAME and jumped everything I pointed him at. Keep in mind, we maybe schooled 5 xc jumps in Aiken 4 years ago? It's not something we do.
We moved to another field which has BN/Novice and maybe some Training Questions. (I mind my own business in the big Training/Modified/Prelim field.)
We ended up jumping a number of Novice questions (including mine and Hampton's first corner!), unbeknownst to me as I was TOLD they were BN. I had one messy jump where I missed the distance, but Hampton took care of me and got us over the jump safely. That was actually a huge confidence boost that it can be messy and nothing bad happened.
What a good little test for my secret little plans I had for the end of the week.
So fun!!! Hampton the event horse!
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