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Yesterday K and I entered our 2nd Hunter Pace. This one was in Pound Ridge, NY. We almost couldn't go as the grey I ride had some issues but my friend S lent me her mare. Good thing as we had already paid our entry fees.
Our start time was at 8:06AM so we had to leave early. It is just under an hour to trailer over. It has been a while since I have left my house before dawn for a horse event. It takes a while to hitch up load tack, hay, water and horses. Poor Triton was whickering in his stall as we loaded. "Hey Mom! You are forgetting ME!"
We arrived on the grounds at 7:45. Drastically underdressed for the Westchester crowd. All tweed and hunt dress with their over excited thoroughbreds. Us on our smaller but in shape animals. I had never ridden Robin before this but have ridden with her often. S has spook issues and I'm not going first issues with her. I think it has to be S as Robin was all "yes ma'am, no ma'am and how fast do you want me to go ma'am".
Very nice trail system. I'm not sure at this point how long it took to complete the 7 mile course but we were definately back in by 9:15. Three riders had already been dumped and the ambulance was pulling in as we left.
Well we just got a phone call. Out of 30 teams in our open division we placed SECOND! Once the times are put on the website I will decide wether or not to strangle K as she had to do the "photo op" jump 3 times and probably cost us the blue ribbon.
We will have to see if they invite "That Rockland Trash" back again to steal the ribbons from them.
Our start time was at 8:06AM so we had to leave early. It is just under an hour to trailer over. It has been a while since I have left my house before dawn for a horse event. It takes a while to hitch up load tack, hay, water and horses. Poor Triton was whickering in his stall as we loaded. "Hey Mom! You are forgetting ME!"
We arrived on the grounds at 7:45. Drastically underdressed for the Westchester crowd. All tweed and hunt dress with their over excited thoroughbreds. Us on our smaller but in shape animals. I had never ridden Robin before this but have ridden with her often. S has spook issues and I'm not going first issues with her. I think it has to be S as Robin was all "yes ma'am, no ma'am and how fast do you want me to go ma'am".
Very nice trail system. I'm not sure at this point how long it took to complete the 7 mile course but we were definately back in by 9:15. Three riders had already been dumped and the ambulance was pulling in as we left.
Well we just got a phone call. Out of 30 teams in our open division we placed SECOND! Once the times are put on the website I will decide wether or not to strangle K as she had to do the "photo op" jump 3 times and probably cost us the blue ribbon.
We will have to see if they invite "That Rockland Trash" back again to steal the ribbons from them.
But we stopped doing the shows and now do these Hunter Paces instead because of the clothes and the hours. My SIL always laughed because a horseshow was where I would wear the most make-up! I was pretty astounded by the attire and glad it wasn't a requirement
Keep in mind we DON'T know the optimum time when we start out. There were a few teams that came in earlier than us and placed further down. So maybe K's Photo ops weren't bad thing. 
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