Super showjumping lesson!

This weekend, we headed up to our instructor's facility to have our last lesson for a while - she is due to go on maternity until the end of November. We were really looking forward to it as we hadn't jumped properly in a good few weeks and were still beaming from our progress at the One Day Event earlier in September.

Fab showjumping lesson yesterday - Louie's coming on a treat 👌🏻 #EquineHour pic.twitter.com/7RhBmkwQRg

— Sophie Tunnah (@TeamTunnah) September 25, 2016

Louie warmed up, very tense and very excited!! Starting with some canter poles on the ground, and making a four stride distance in three easy strides!!! :-/
So we spent a little bit of time getting back the rhythm, consistency and fluidity to the canter before starting to jump.

August & September Round Up

So, it's been a busy few months, with a hectic summer work schedule, lots going on outside of work, as well as lots of fun with Louie!! So much, we've missed out updating our blog...

We had a great start to getting back to it after I came back from holiday at the end of July, and this continued into August. We started the month with a great showjumping lesson - getting back into the rhythm and jumping round a course. It was a great lesson, and Louie loved to be back working and doing some jumping again! After the lesson, we headed home to enjoy watching the first day of the Olympics & the Eventing Dressage...

Perfect day: jumping lesson this morning with Lulu 🌟💕 & #Rio2016 #EquestrianEventing this afternoon! pic.twitter.com/pjlBpIcFvJ

— Sophie Tunnah (@TeamTunnah) August 6, 2016

Our First One Day Event

We took the plunge, and even though we felt a little unprepared, we entered our first ODE! Louie took it all in his stride, and behaved impeccably, even wanting to do more when we'd finished!

We hadn't done a dressage since the beginning of July so Louie was a little excited and tense in the warm up. But he soon settled and worked nicely before heading into his test.