Phase 3: Stadium Jumping

The end of championships snuck up on us while we weren't looking. It feels like just yesterday that we were setting up our tack stall, but then we found ourselves taking it apart. However, before that happened, we finished the third and final phase of eventing.

There were some complications with the warm-up ring. For dressage, the ring was insane and the horses were a little spooked because of the disorder. Pony Club tried to make up for that by only allowing ten horses into the arena at once. The trade off is that some of my teammates only got a ten minute warm-up.

In spite of that, one horse had a clear round, and the other two only got four fault points. Overall, everyone did pretty well. Our friend in beginner novice also got a good score in that last phase.

Afterwards, we all kinda relaxed for a bit, glad that the competition was mostly over. We began taking down our tack stall and cleaning up the place. The awards ceremony was interesting--apparently Bill Gates was there--but we didn't place. For the most part, that's okay. We all agreed that it was a huge achievement just to make it to championships and not to come in dead last!

Here are some pics of a couple of my teammates warming up.

Here is one of my teammates in the ring.

And I could be wrong . . . but I believe that in the picture below, Bill Gates is the one is the green poncho/raincoat and blue baseball hat??