Red Ribbons - Francesca's first ever ridden show

After a lovely dry and sunny Saturday we unfortunately did not pick the best weather to take Frankie to her first ever show over at Cottenham Point to Point racecourse for the Cambridge & District Riding Club show.

We spent this week frantically searching for a tweed jacket small enough for Francesca. Luckily a lovely lady from eBay posted it to us and yesterday we were so pleased to see it had arrived.

Cute! 

I spent hours yesterday bathing Millie, so when I watched the weather forecast was dismayed to see it was going to rain, and rain hard all morning.

Well the met office got it right as low and behold I woke up at 6.30 to rain.

After loading the car, hosing off a very muddy Shetland and Thoroughbred we loaded everything up and set off.

We arrived about 9.45am and classes had begun in torrential rain. I'm not going to lie I did feel so sorry for those people in hand and ridden classes as it rained sideways!

Much to our relief the rain slowed and stopped just as we needed to get Frankie ready and onto her pony. I tacked Millie up as quick as possible and off we went.

We arrived perfectly timed as our class was about to start.

Millie was absolutely amazing and didn't put a foot wrong. Francesca's riding was equally as amazing and both did a lovely little show in trot. After a little walk round the ring we were so pleased and excited to be pulled into 1st place!

Then after a short wait we were back in the ring for the ridden Mountain and Moreland class. We were up against adults and horses! But Millie was an absolute star and behaved implacably and beat off a horse who wouldn't behaved to take another 1st place. 

For winning both her classes Francesca win a magic brush and a new flexi feed bowl for Millie, thank you so much to Equicentric 

I had a lovely time and really enjoyed myself.

Beanie was a really patent boy and waited while Millie showed so it was now his time to shine!

We tacked up B and went and warmed up. B seemed to have jets for legs and flew everything we out him over! 

We entered into the 90cm eventer challenge. What that entailed was going into the ring and having 2 judges look at your horses conformation, they then asked you to set off and jump a round of 13 fences which were a mix of cross country fences and show jumps. B flew round but annoyingly knocked a pole at a big upright. But the rest of the round was foot perfect! 

After a really long day, we made our way back to the trailer to unpack, tidy up and grab a well earned ice cream! 

Much to Georgies surprise Beanie was only 1 point off winning and came a well earned second. She even won a voucher for a group training session with Barry Meningen at Meadow Lane Equestrian. 

Someone is tired after her busy day, still wearing her shirt and jodhpurs!