River Valley

Lindsay and Java are participating in the River Valley show down at Whitemud if anyone wants to go watch! Might be a good show to attend with more rider's next year.

That said, it is definitely weather challenged this year!

Lindsay hauled in for schooling rounds yesterday. It was rather wet. They seem to be doing their best, and set up warm up jumps in sectioned off areas of the warm up ring, as the one sand ring was soup, and the elevated sand ring was being completely redone. Many jumpers were hacking along the side of the road!

Hunter schooling rounds were in the hunter ring, over a full course of hunter jumps, set at 2'9" - 3'0". Java was pretty good, although not sure about landing in soup.

Today Lindsay braided and bathed Java, headed over to show...and got there to find out they postponed hunters until noon. So Lindsay signed up for her class near the middle and corked so she was ready to go...only to hear them announce hunters cancelled for the day.

Now I get why they did it...rings were soupy/muddy, but couldn't they have set up an email alert or twitter thinger to inform people?

And, why did they set up a full 12 jump schooling course, at 2'9" - 3'0" heights? Wouldn't it have been better to set up a few jumps to showcase the various types of fill, set most of them lower so the horses wouldn't land so hard, and save the ring for the actual showing? And maybe have someone keeping a better eye on how many jumps people schooled?

Hoping they don't charge Lindsay the haul in fee for a wasted day.

Karen