First outing of the year!

So on Sunday Jack & Sunny went on their first outing of 2015 as we went to Ashwood to play Arena Eventing. Sunny did the 50cm where he was a good boy (in Sunny terms of good boy) and he warmed up beautifully like a little dressage diva. The classes were running extremely late and poor Jack had been stood around waiting for 4 hours. He's not the most patient horses at the best of times and he was also in a bit of a tizz because he is very attached to me and Sunny so got rather upset when left by himself but for the most part he was actually quite chilled and waited quite well (major brownie points to him for being a super grown up boy and staying lovely and calm when Sunny had a trailer accident) however just before his class he did get quite wound up and had a bit of a diva strop in the warm up ring... I mean he made a child cry because he reared and then lay down, so apologies small child and small pony for causing that commotion haha! He's certainly a horse that knows his job though because he forgets everything as soon as he's in the ring and switches on to the task at hand. He jumped probably the best round he has yet with just two poles which were both completely my fault to come 3rd and qualify for the finals later on this year, so that's a pretty fab way to start of the year! Also felt like it was a very beneficial round for both us, I learnt that I need to stop riding him so over cautiously and have a bit more faith in him, I need to sit back and not interfere or expect a stop and hopefully the poles will stay up next time! After feeling a bit rubbish over the last few months, Jack definitely put a smile on my face this weekend, so fanks baby pony!