The last time we stayed with a bit of a tough day, but with a plan to place that in the rear -view mirror and to move forward. Fortunately, that is exactly what happened. Since I had that little accident at Meadowlake, I have chosen to move Maverick to my trainer’s farm, and although it means much more for me, he has absolutely drunk there.
The day after Meadowlake we did a light XC (cross -country skiing) school to see where things were afterwards and it turned out to be the best XC school he had so far. He was almost too daring in some places, but I was so happy that I felt it after the day before. Afterwards we established him and introduced him to his new turnout buddy, who happened to participate in the 4* level, so hopefully he can bring some wisdom to the highest level in him while they are together.
Our focus then shifted to a show jumping to prepare for WEC (World Equestrian Center), but also especially on the Maverick flatwork. Everything you need to happen about fences always comes from the flatwork, so you have to start there. He really starts to grow in himself and understand how he can now use his power that will certainly help our scores in the dressage ring.
WEC Ohio is always one of my favorite facilities to show and it was so nice that they had a less expensive training show for us to take the young horses for some kilometers. Maverick exceeded my expectations about how he dealt with the large environment. On the school day he was a bit impressed by the jumps and exceeded quite a bit, but because of his first class the next day he was completely business. It was a great opportunity for me to play with his speech and some inside turns; We had a few learning rails (and one bad rider rail), but in general I could not have been happier with him and we have some great photos to start up!
The following week was Kentucky Classique Horse Trials, also the Hosts for United States Eventing Association Area 8 Championships. I discovered fairly close to the competition that we were eligible for the Starter Championship Division, which was pretty exciting, since this horse only jumped its first full courses in May. Dressage was usually good – there was only one small miscommunication in our left leader Canter transition, but he brought a 32 score home that I was very happy with. Then we went all over the country, where he proved to us that Meadowlake was just a day off. A few jumps went in and out of the trees on which I had to keep my focus, but in the last half of the course he took it over and just drove home. I accidentally went about 14 seconds too fast, so we made a few speed errors, but we have what we needed and that is all that I care about. Show jumping on Sunday was also great-we had a rail of the last that I just needed a touch to increase a touch to prevent. We finally finished ninth and he got his first prize ceremony and victory Gallop. He had not been investigated very much because of all this.
In the coming weeks we will spend on the pleasant coordination of his flatwork, working on a few schedules and the schools a little more cross -country skiing before his last run for the make -over that will be held on Stable View the last weekend of September. With every ride I am increasingly happier that I did not throw the towel in the towel when he was off the track his first month.
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