Well… considering I hadn’t jumped Magic for over two months before this lesson and have never jumped in this saddle, I think it’s fair to say I was a little concerned when the instructor suddenly announced we would be doing a Chase me Charlie competition 😂 Fortunately we started off with a little cross pole so I could get my act together and see how Magic was feeling (it was only two weeks ago that he bronced round the school in his old saddle!). Unsurprisingly, Magic was very much up for jumping and during the warmup I realised I had nothing to worry about. By the end of the lesson, I had a massive smile on my face, Magic was rather pleased with himself, and it was a perfect way to end 2019!
We didn’t do the Chase me Charlie as a proper competition as although everyone jumped successfully in previous rounds, not everyone wanted to jump to the top of the blocks, so it was a bit more relaxed than a real comp! We obviously also couldn’t go any higher than the top of the small triangular blocks, so the instructor also made the fence wider with every round - I’ve jumped higher and wider than this separately before, but I’m pretty sure this is the ‘chunkiest’ I’ve jumped as a height/width combination, and certainly the biggest I’ve jumped on Magic! I haven't really lost any confidence jumping recently, but at the same time we rarely get to jump fences of this size in the riding school, so I'm always a bit on edge these days when the poles go up!
When it came to the final round with the biggest fence, I completely messed up our distance (as always), but Magic being the superstar he is flew over it easy peasy without even touching a pole. The last time we jumped this height together was 11 months ago and we completely demolished the first fence and knocked the pole on the second, so for Magic to jump over this wider fence, from a terrible stride while the useless human got left behind and STILL make a beautiful shape over it honestly made me feel so proud of him! He’s come so far over the last year in terms of technique and it's days like this that really make me realise how much he has changed! 💗
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