Mission Accomplished!

I entered a show with the intention of riding Sealy in her very first "Mini Event." For those of you who do not know what one is....you compete in a dressage test, a stadium jumping round and also you ride a cross country course. The reason it is a "Mini" Trial is that the show is unrated and the division go to very low heights (as low as 6 inches) for people who are either starting young horses, little kids on their ponies or people who want to dabble but don't want to jump the big jumps.
Turns out that Sealy wanted no part of galloping cross country and tried her very best to get me off of her when I took her to a hunter pace a few weeks ago. She definitely convinced me that she needed to sit this one out. So Sharon let me borrow her horse. I had two weeks to teach him to put his head down and act like he knew what he was doing! He actually picked things up very quickly and put in a wonderful effort. He already knows hoe to jump because he's been a foxhunter for a while now. He had just never seen the brightly colored and decorated jumps in the stadium round. So this was the first time in years I had a horse that was not only capable to competing but sane and safe as well. Mission: go out and have some FUN!!
We did a lower division because, while the hunt horse knows well how to run and jump, he doens't know jack about circles, correct leads and all that mess. So
the division I chose was called "Very Greens" and allowed us to do a test without a canter....but the jumps were somewhat small (2 foot max) and Yankee was less than impressed.
Thanks to Kim for coming along and taking great pictures! She kept me organized and on schedule thank goodness!




All in all it was a fun day. We ended up second in our division! Surprise to me! Hopefully someday it will be Tipping out there competing, but for now Yankee was a great substitute.