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Eventing at Inavale farm

7/5/2014

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This was my first time competing here. Getting to Oregon was a bit of a "chore", first Seattle traffic, then Tacoma and Olympia, but Portland was the worst! Finally got to our destination close to Corvallis Oregon at Inavale farm.
Dressage was on the grass, and we had a mediocre score...
Then I did my course walk with Jessica Heideman, a god send if not for her invaluable information as to where to go!
The course was very challenging! At all levels! First time I have seen a trackhener even for Beginner Novice!
We had trouble on XC at the jump into the water...we had 2 stops, then at the trackhener 1 stop and the next fence we stopped and were eliminated! I was so dissapointed! Thinking I should go back to Training level, or have Paktaly in better shape..or...that's how I am...beating myself to see what went wrong,  Paktaly  definitely lost his confidence...
I decided not to ask if we could jump stadium and give him the day off, because on Monday I had a clinic here with Nick Holmes-Smith for 2 hours, meaning we need to be fit to get the most out of it, and at this point riding with Nick is more productive!
Watching stadium was
event full, again the course was though! Even at BN level rails were flying!
It drizzled or rained Friday and Saturday, but Sunday got nicer and Monday was hot!
Riding with Nick was as usual terrific...we started out jumping Novice jumps, and Paktaly got his nerves back and we jumped all the training jumps and other exercises  and I had my steady mount back!
After icing his legs I drove down to S Eugene to visit Pat who bought Ulduze, Pallas Athena and her foal Ehi
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