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I took her out arena eventing at The Jays recently and she behaved impeccably. I went for a training round, not expecting to come anywhere but we ended up with 4th place! We had a couple poles, one which was a silly mistake made by me, and the other was just unlucky where she just tapped it. However, because our time was so fast, we were still in the placings! This time last year, we would have crashed through a lot of the jumps but now she\u2019s flying round, I\u2019m so proud!
We also had the very exciting opportunity to have a lesson with Ben Hobday and his wife, Emma! It was hosted at Topthorn Arena and was organized very well. Mystie was flying over everything the whole time, even doing some new tricky lines that she hasn\u2019t seen before, absolutely perfectly! We warmed up with Emma over a little course, working on the consistency of the rhythm in canter, and making sure they were forward in front of the leg. It was so fun, I feel so grateful to have met her. We then went inside with Ben and he told us to canter round the arena, whilst working through our different \u2018gears\u2019, and told us to imagine we were riding around Badminton! That made me laugh and Mystie flew off, I even had to overtake the person in front, oops! We then did jumping, working on bounces and related distances. Mystie was absolutely awesome the whole time, I really can\u2019t fault her. Ben made us all laugh, dancing and singing throughout the lesson. <\/p>\n\n\n
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It was such a great opportunity, I\u2019d love to have a lesson with him again. I\u2019m feeling very lucky and thankful that I was able to go! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hi everyone! How are you all doing? Mystie and I have been quite busy since I did my last blog post. We\u2019ve been out competing and doing lots of training! I have had a lot of lessons with my local instructor Barrett Watson. He has really helped me and Mystie progress with our jumping, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":2200425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[94,133,134,115,135,117,136,137],"class_list":{"0":"post-1915383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-equestrian","8":"tag-arena-eventing","9":"tag-barrett-watson","10":"tag-ben-hobday","11":"tag-showjumping","12":"tag-the-jays","13":"tag-topthorn-arena","14":"tag-training","15":"tag-turbo-cob"},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/flld\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2020\/08\/CM4.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Kirstie","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/flld\/author\/kirstie\/"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/flld\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2020\/08\/CM4.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/flld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/flld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/flld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/flld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/flld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1915383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/flld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2201350,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/flld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915383\/revisions\/2201350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/flld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2200425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/flld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1915383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/flld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1915383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/flld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1915383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I\u2019m looking forward to getting out to some ODE\u2019s with Mystie soon, all the training will pay off!
I hope you\u2019re all having a lovely summer so far, and that your all keeping safe!
Charlotte & Mystie \u263a\ufe0f
Photo Credit to Carol Street<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n