I'm Not Dead...

I promise(; I've just been extremely busy! So, let me go ahead & say that this entry will probably be verrrrrrrrrrrrry long. We had an interesting weekend at Poplar, to say the least. It started out pretty well but the second we crossed A, to go down centerline, everything went "bleh." We had a few good points in our test but the rest was just "bleh." We rode in a pony trot & looked at EVERYTHING.

  Plus, our dressage was in the grass arena next to the first cross country jump for Prelim, Intermediate & Advanced. Perfect. We were in last place after dressage... Cross country was great though. Dargenzio loved it. His ears were forward, looking for his next fence, the whole time. We did have a stop, but I'm fine with it just because it was his first Novice & he's a babbbby. Show jumping was just perfect.

I don't normally come out of show jumping feeling that great. We left all of the rails up & got around in style. I watched two people fall off right before me so I was a little nervous walking in. But, Dargenzio knows it's his strong point & took care of me over the first three fences where I was kinda still in awe that we were getting around. We ended in seventh, but we're determined to get a blue ribbon at our next Horse Trials! We will be heading to a few more HTs this year, one is definitely Chattahoochee Hills in October. I'm excited, nervous, but excited. I love Chatt, but I know that their courses are always difficult & generally max everything. But, we did get around Poplar & we did have a few interesting questions on course.

Hopefully, I will have some exciting news over the next month, but I can't reveal what it is yet!