Coyote Springs show

Coyote Springs ran their horse this past weekend - the previous weekend show being cancelled from all the rain that fell. This weekend was dry - and really hot! The disappointment was the organization let the jumping phases run really late... and it just kept getting hotter. The good part was the gang had a good show anyway!
These shows, called a derby, have a dressage test first, as a normal horse trial. Then the jumping starts in the stadium arena, then continues out into the cross country, then comes back into the stadium arena to finish up. Kinda fun format.

Samantha rode Topper, still working on a confident ride, but she got around. Especially the cross country! They had her scheduled a bit backwards, with her jumping before her dressage. Glad to know she got around!

Alyssa and Tucker had a long wait til the end of the day. But they were right on with the whole thing and earned a 3rd place on their first time out!

Katie took Savvy and had great jumping rounds, no mistakes at all! Now, just need to work on that elusive dressage. Ended up in 7th place in that big class.

Lauren just knew she had a good go... dressage ran early, absolutely no warm up - and she did great anyway. Sailed thru the jumping with "only" one stop at the ditch - which is real progress, this used to be the eliminator! Ended up in 3rd place in Beginner Novice, a step up from her previous competitions.

Rosa had her best dressage score to date on Apollo. Got thru the stadium round just fine, but had problems with that ditch on cross country as well. She also brought along Maximus to his first outing since his injury. Only schooling, but he went around like a pro and is now deemed ready for real competition.

Ready for MeadowCreek now!