Pepi's first jumping contest and updates

Little backstory for those who just met Pepper. Pep is a 3.5 year old paint x arabian mare that i bought and trained from when she was 2 years old. Alot of this journey is posted in my previous posts. January 11th i signed up for our first contest which happened to be a jumping competition. And this is how it went...

.: Day before the competition :.

The day before the competition there were some jumps in the arena. I worked with pep for about 45 min and we practiced the jumps for matbe 15 min. Really glad we practiced as we had a few refusals at the start.

.: The competition :.

The big day. I was pretty nervous but was one of the first so took a look at the course and what do i see... TREES EVERYWHERE. Immediately thought i was dead but hey let's give it a go.

.: First round in a nutshell :.

The first round was supposed to be 50/60, but people complained (idk why) and they put it down to 40/50. It went pretty bad xD. The crouds, trees and my nerves were too much for her and we got belled out with 3 refusals. As its just a practice course i was able to try and finish it. It was a bit messy but we were able to finish it. I awas happy we finished it on a good note.

.: Round 2 highlights :.

So i was greedy and tested my luck at another round, so i signed us up for the 60/70 (i think it was closer to 50/60 but not sure). So i had to speet tack Pepper and warm-up. This warm-up was 10x better and we got some good jumps in. Then it was time to go for the real deal. I wasn't expecting anything, just wanted to give her more experience with the croud.

But holy moly she flew over the jumps and gave me an amazing clear round. I was so happy and proud of Pep and she earned her first ribbon for 4th place!

.: 1.5 weeks later :.

A friend of hours was jumping so we decided to pop over a couple times too =3

And this was our jumping journey so far. We will now chill it on the jumping and only do it once every couple weeks/every month. When shes 4 we will slowely pick up the pace again and start training to get bigger and better. We both stull have a lot to learn and a long way to go.

Thanks for reading =3