Pine Hill

December first was the winter Pine Hill schooling horse trials this year. Was a hard weekend to do this as we had such rotten weather the week before and no one was able to ride AND, it was Thanksgiving weekend. But several of the competitors competed with mixed results. 

Rosa had the best dressage test for her to date! But was eliminated in the stadium. 

JuanCarlos came from college to hop on Apollo at Novice level and had a tense dressage test... only to jump all phases clean and come with a 4th place. 

Kate and Louie weren't great in the dressage, had a rail down in stadium but cross country went like a dream and she placed well for her first time out at training level. 

Lauren tried Wiley at Novice for the first time, not so great a dressage test, but the stadium went textbook good and cross country clean with a few time faults. She came away with a ribbon at this new level as well.

 Samantha took Topper and did Goldilocks division. Nice dressage test and clean jumping left her in 4th place. Cross country was going well, when someone mounted on course jumped out of the woods towards Topper and scared him - Sam fell off and the jump judge told her she had to walk in. Found out later she could have got back on and finished - she only had one more fence to go! 

SaraBeth took Daphne for her first go. Dressage was not great as expected, but the staduim jumped around great and cross country started well too. Until the water, Daphne wanted no part of that one. Had SaraBeth known the rules, she could have chosen to the the log option (this was an option fence) and continued, but as it was, they were eliminated at the water. 

Grace and Strider went at Beginner Novice and looked great. They got around without any problems.
Kim brought Hank for some fun. Schooled on Saturday over some cross country jumps. Showed in some dressage tests on Sunday. They had good scores and good times!