Weekend of Events

Last weekend Gamble and I decided we needed a hacking fix. So we headed to Numurkah PC gymkhana on the Saturday. We were washed and polished and looking the part. We went in 5 classes (which was plenty to give me my fix for at least another 12 months!) We went in the Led hack class first, and running in sand and trying to look polished and eligant is not an easy task! We didn't place in this one, awww! Next was our rider class and we placed 3rd. We then went in Show hunter and didn't place, working hunter and came 2nd, then Ridden hack and came 1st! Woo hoo. So back we went for Champion and Res champ. We missed both, but I think we got robbed of the Res Champ. The horse that came Res, got the wrong canter lead and broke back to trot, where as Gam did, in my mind, a perfect work out. I don't get it?!
Anyways we were finished by lunch time, so happy days! Back home to re pack for tomorrow's trip to Wangratta Dressage day.
We had entered the unofficial 1A and 2A test and were 2nd to ride in the 1A, so that meant an early start Sunday morning.
It started with me having to wake Gammy up in the paddock, he was all curled up still snoozing, aww poor man!
At Wang he warmed up perfectly, I couldn't have hoped for him to feel better. We went into the ring and it all changed. He felt tence and was not flexing to the left like he was in warm up. Aghh! I was disapointed as I walked out of the arena, as we should have done soo much better for such a basic test. I watched a few of the other horses and saw plenty that I would have scored better then mine. I had about 1.5hrs before my next test, and I was determined to do much better in the 2A.
Again he warmed up beautifully in the warm up. We got into the arena and he still felt good. YAY! We tried to keep the nice forward rhythem and be as accurate as possible. Serpintines are tricky, but I was pretty happy with this set.
Overall I was much happier with how we both rode this test. So back to the float we went, unplaited and packed up ready to go when scores came up. I wasn't expecting to place, especially in the 1A, and the quality of horses in the 2A, I doubted we would be in the top 6, but hoped to be in top 10.
It wasn't too long until results were up. I started looking at the 1A from the bottom of the page..kept going up, and up...and up?! Umm where is my name?? Oh maybe they havn't put the names in order from 1st-last, so skipped to the top, as I was 2nd to ride...hmm hang on, my names at the top..but I rode 2nd..What the??? We won..! How did that happen!?? I had to stand there for a few minutes to process that yes infact we had somehow won the test I didn't like and that there was a 1st next to us?! Woo hoo!! I think I would have been more excited if I was happy with our test and that we had given it our best shot, but I felt we hadn't and that there were nicer tests ridden. Oh well! A win is a win!!
Next up was the 2A, and I was stoaked to see that we had placed again, coming 5th! YAAAY! Go Gamble! So we waited for presentations and picked our 2 ribbons and $50 prize money for coming 1st! That was a nice suprise!
We don't have a lot of competion coming up but hopefully we will find somthing soon, we seem to be on a roll again :)

2A results

TIME	BRIDLE #	RIDER NAME	HORSE NAME	SCORE	PLACE
11.29	2350	Elise Zorzutti	Dundas Piper	73.333%	1ST
12.28	100	Tina Anderson	Charcoal Park Latte	73.333%	2ND
10.30	117	Francesca Greene	Esprit De Corps	71.296%	3RD
10.38	109	Linda Beverly	Mandalay Fizz	65.741%	4TH
11.21	3110	Jill Lockhart	ESB Irish Gamble	64.815%	5TH
10.54	3386	Sophie Anderson	Janderlea Delta Blue	64.074%	6TH
10.00	113	Tamlyn Godfrey	Orthodox Star	62.778%
11.53	111	Alicia Tua	Not So Sweet	61.111%
10.22	118	Javais Ham	Ho yuanjia	60.370%
10.16	114	Lynn Gent	Irish Heights	60.185%
11.45	119	Dona McQueen	Trusty Ted	55.925%
11.37	104	Sam Semeniuk	Hansa Waneeta	55.000%
10.08	102	Geneve Manning	Wirringulla Cobber	53.889%
11.05	120	Dona McQueen	Face Painter	49.630%
11.13	112	Bianca Knight	Willindigo Baylee	48.704%

1A results

3110	Jill Lockhart	ESB Irish Gamble	66.750%	1st
100	Tina Anderson	Charcoal Park Latte	65.500%	2nd
2640	Tegan Muirhead	El Tigre Estrella	65.250%	3rd
110	Amie Hourigan	Boot T Licious	65.250%	4TH
P681	Andrea Williams	Gilgarra Guiness	64.250%	5TH
121	Charlotte Redman	Big John	62.500%	6TH
3386	Sophie Anderson	Janderlea Delta Blue	61.250%
118	Javais Ham	Ho Juanjia	59.750%
129	Kayla Bacchetto	Orana Park Centro	59.000%
128	George Howe	Owendale Barley Sugar	58.500%
119	Dona McQueen	Trusty Ted	58.000%
116	Bella Butterworth	Chippenham Citation	57.500%
111	Alicia Tua	Not So Sweet	57.250%
107	Sophie Killalea	Stormhaven Yasmar	56.750%
104	Sam Semeniuk	Hansa Waneeta	55.500%
133	Abbey Walsh	Another Gunn	54.500%
122	Jodi Homer	Junior	54.250%
112	Bianca Knight	Willindigo Baylee	54.000%
132	Charlotte Chambers	Wyam Oliver Twist	53.750%
123	Jackie Gee	Cushaven Park Bonnie	52.750%
120	Dona McQueen	Face Painter	52.250%
134	Nicole Sullivan	Candita Amarello Fudge	48.250%