Ribbon Day

Ribbon Day Recount

On Sunday the 3rd of May, I went to my pony clubs ribbon day (if you do well in events you can win ribbons). I had been excited about it since the day I found out about it.

We had 10 events. They were turn out (which is presentation and how clean your gear and pony is), rider on the flat (the riders position and aids), best mannered and behaved horse/pony (the pony that listens to the aids and behaves best), tip ‘n’ out (a jump starts off at a certain height and each person jumps the jump but if they tip the jump, your out and each round the jump gets higher. The person still jumping is the winner), walk, trot, canter, jump, halt (walk then trot then canter over the jump and stop a few strides after the jump), rider over jumps ( the riders position over the set jumps), a trotting race (the horses race only at a trot, if they canter you have to go back to the start), best match (the horse and the rider who work together the best) and one where you had to jump a tarpaulin that was lying on top of barrels. In that one my pony took off for it, jumped it and nearly sent me on the ground!

My favourite one would have had to be the one where you race up to a drum and eat the chocolate fish and drink the lemonade that's on the drum and then say RUMPELSTILTSKIN, mount and race back over the finish line! Everyone had a sore stomach after that.

The judges then announced the champion and reserve champion for overall points. We won champion!!! After that we had a dress up and I dressed up as a jockey and Cheeky as a galloper! We ended up getting 3rd. At the end of the day I was so proud of myself and Cheeky.

We went home with one 4th, four 3rds, one 2nd and five 1st place, and A BIG CHAMPION RIBBON! We both had a great day together and had lots of fun.