Hünxe: The First International Event for my Youngsters

The Hünxe International Event has for many years been one of my favourite summer competitions. The setting being beautiful and spacious, they offer a variety of contests from grass roots and xc tests for Young Eventers up to an international 2-star event, which I was lucky enough to win last year with Louis when the German Team Championships were carried out there. Last weekend, I took Sam (Samourai du Thot), Beauty and Eragon to compete there. The first result to be happy about is due to Sam, who became 3^rd in an aptitude test including a xc course with a score of 8.2. He is coming on very nicely and obviously likes his job… Eragon started with a novice level Young Eventers xc test, where only some time pens kept  him out of the ranks. Additionally, he participated in a pre-novice (short format) which was carried out over three whole days (which will be difficult to imagine for anybody from UK, where you generally are done with a BE100 in a couple of hours, even if you have several horses!). He did a convincing dressage test which was awarded with a score of 7.9 .  In the quite demanding xc course we collected just a few time pens, thus we finally won the competition in spite of a couple of poles at the first sj fences ..:-) 

Beauty tried her first CIC* and proved that she has gained a lot of experience since the beginning of the season. The dressage test got her 48 pp (11th, still worthwile to improve..). Her clear round in xc was confident and in a good pace, rised us temporarily to a 6th rank. Unfortunately, she had two poles down in sj, which is rather unusual for her. The first one was probably owing to me, but the one at the last fence absolutely unnecessary. I assume that the practice arena set up indoors due to the rain disturbed her (she is still a little afraid of so many horses) and made her jumping tense, as usually she is really careful. We still achieved a placement, about which I (and hopefully her owner) am very happy The next event for her and Eragon is scheduled the CIC*  Bad Harzburg …

Until next time!  Julia

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