Sack the jockey

Well after Jack's behaviour a la trailer last weekend, I decided to take Sparkie out to Penkridge show instead. He's been out xcing and other bits and bobs but he hadn't competed since the start of May and he was SO happy to be back out, it honestly made me so, so happy to see that he really loves his job and I think other people could see that too, so that was really nice. He was really taking me into jumps and didn't feel like he was going to hesitate at anything... until the jump off when I put him on the most awful turn of all time ever and he had no choice but to slam the breaks on, poor pony, completely rider error; fair to say I was very cross with myself, it was a stupid mistake and I should no better by now! Even more frustrating that he still got the fastest time by about 3 or 4 seconds even with a stop. Never mind, mistakes happen and at least I can learn with it and remember to ride my lines properly in future. 

he's so perfect!

Then today it was a jumping day for all the ponies! All of them behaved great and we had big smiles throughout; even when, once again, Sparkie put me on the floor, what a little bugger he is! He's definitely a challenge that one, he does like to keep me on my toes, but he's so fun to ride, he's such a little pocket rocket you can't help but love him anyway. Sunny was fab, both schooling and jumping, his canter is so, so much better, his transitions are brilliant now! And then Jack was, as usual, a little bit half asleep- he's so laid back about his jumping! He really does put zero effort into smaller jumps so we just kept putting it up and he ended up jumping 1m10... and made it feel scaringly small, it honestly did not feel like a big fence. Such a cool horse!