The week leading up to Seneca was wet and stormy, causing the organizers to cancel both the preliminary and intermediate divisions. With good reason! When we arrived on Saturday with Vernon for the training, we found the beautiful course at Bittersweet Field muddy and wet. They had already removed fences from the course, and removed a few more as the day went on. It was a beautiful day, though, and the majority of the footing was quite good.
Vernon put in a nice dressage test that was scored rather harshly, but found jumping out of the deep footing in show jumping unnerving. Amanda decided to call it a day, choosing to save her young horse's confidence for another day. It is never easy to withdrawal, especially when a nice cross country course awaits you, but we always rather err on the side of caution, especially with young horses like Vernon.
On Sunday, the footing was much better and our three beginner novice pairs all put in fantastic dressage tests. Kendall and Cass won the dressage in their division with a 28.4, while Julia and Indi were just a couple of places behind in third. Alfie and Curran were well up the order, as well, in a competitive open division.
Show jumping also went very well, with the girls both jumping lovely, smooth clear rounds, and Curran and Alfie having one rail. The organizers did a great job with the footing in show jumping by tamping down divets and moving jumps to keep horses from jumping out of churned up footing.
Cross country went mostly well, although everyone had silly stops caused by rider errors. However, everyone finished the day happy, proud of their horses, and excited for the next event!
No pictures, this time. Amanda forgot the camera.
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