Little Downham

Milo was at Little Downham yesterday doing an OI class as a warm-up before his trip down to Pau at the end of the month.

We could tell that he was feeling great as his dressage was not his best to say the least! To be fair the first part was OK but afer the second medium canter Milo decided it was all a bit too much and with the cross country and show jumping running very close to the dressage he decided that trot was something he didn't need to bother with any more! He did his trademark 'tranter' - a cross between trot and canter - for the final part of the test and consequently only just scraped under 40 with a score of 39.6

He show jumped very nicely but did just tap down one pole for 4 faults but then went cross country, clear with just 8 time faults without trying and in a snaffle! Mark didn't tell me he was going to try the snaffle until after the fact. He schools at home in a snaffle so he thought he'd give it a go in a competition and all seemed to go very well.

His final position was 20th out of about 36.

Trip to Pau is all booked so fingers crossed for good weather and a successful end to the season.