Rushing home on Friday after 4 great days at the lake with my family in GA, I had a lot to do before the Saturday Gayla schooling show.
Saturday was cool and gorgeous and Odessa had a really good dressage warm up and while she wasn't perfect in the test, she was more consistent and definitely drove better than at the last schooling show. I added a flash (not super tight) and latexed the bar areas of her egg butt straight bar bit a few days prior to the show and that seemed to make her listen better for dressage and we scored a 47.86 (I think) and had the best Intermediate dressage score out of the horses and ponies and second best of the day. Darryl got me with a 45. <G>
The flash seemed to make her crazy in the cones and marathon though. We knocked three cones and had time penalties because she was not listening, not listening, not listening and then all of a sudden she would listen and really over react, and I had almost no contact. On the marathon we had an awesome first obstacle and she plowed through the water like she never has before. On the second obstacle she had to do a hard left turn through A and she wasn't turning, wasn't turning and then when I took more of a hold (really not that hard) she reared up and spun to the left, over a post and came down with her right leg over a board on the obstacle. She managed to get her leg off thank goodness and we immediately stopped and made sure she wasn't hurt. The boot was squished down around her hoof so TJ fixed that and double checked everything and we cautiously trotted off. She didn't appear to be lame or freaked out so we continued on to finish the remaining two in good time. She has a barely noticable scuff mark on her chest but no swelling or obvious injury from the ordeal. It was scary as hell though watching her leg go up on the board. She did a simliar move minus the leg over the board in FL when I had the flash on her so I need to figure out why she's reacting so much to what should be a mild setup or just not use the flash on cones and marathon. It's like something is getting pinched.
The Hermitage Classic is a month away so hopefully we will have some of this figured out by then.
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