Bob and Claire

May Galway!

We made the long trek down to Galway for the 2nd time this spring with 4 horses in tow. Danielle and Ash finished their 3rd prelim and even got past the scary down hill hanging log that they were afraid of! Alexa and Kalypso were in their finest form, finishing on their dressage score and taking home 3rd in the Jr. Training! Alexa has finally learned to growl and I think "K" is scared.

I competed Claire again for second ever event and she was a true star, coming home with 5th and a blue ribbon for winning the BN team competition :) Claire felt even better than Ram Tap and was much more settled about the jumps, though the scary stuff around the jumps is another matter... a work in progress as always. Bob got a chance to do a dressage and jump round on Friday for schooling and I do believe there may be some progress :)

Noah has had a tough month with something clearly bothering him physically. We had a jump school with Gina Miles the week before the show and while he had some great jumps, there were definately moments where he wasn't himself. I did 2 practice rounds on Friday in hopes of working out the kinks, to no avail. Saturday's dressage was my best EVER earning a 28.2, good enough for second place. However when doing a final check of his jump boots before our stadium I discovered some slight swelling in his knee. Had to make the tough call to withdraw as something just wasn't quite right. We've since returned home and had Wayne out twice. I'm happy to report that Noah will be just fine! He had some iritation in his knee and an old splint had acted up causing him to be sore. I am so thankful I listened to the horse and pulled him out when he was hurting. He's good as new and will have a relatively easy outting at Woodside with Xander in the Training division as we want to ensure he is 100% before moving him up again.