Could life get much crazier…? I feel like I haven’t had a sit down in weeks! It has got to the business end of the polocrosse season, with just the National Club Championships left to go on the 28th-30th August at Ashfields Polocrosse Club in Essex. We had an excellent ‘dry run’ at the Midlands Tournament with our club, Kent Target winning the A, B and E divisions. It’ll be a different story come the Nationals, with all the clubs sending out their best sides and no doubt the Highlanders Club, with 5 out of 6 players representing the UK this Summer, will be favourites to take the A Division title. It was also a great party on Saturday night – a wonderful trait of the hosts, Arden Polocrosse Club… shame I managed to fall off the stage after attempting to dance on a speaker. I’m still sore from it!
In my last blog I was stressing about my top horse being out of action with a suspensory injury and that I was going to have to rely on my young horses… well my four year old, Banjo, won Champion Horse! I couldn’t have been more pleased and excited about it. He feels really impressive and now it is all about teaching him the game… Penny is going to play him in the lower divisions and give him a nice time so I can get on him and go hard next year!
This weekend just gone, we held our annual Open Day at the yard. Everyone put in so much effort into making the place look amazing – I was really proud of all the staff. Over 220 people came along and my poor mother-in-law was swamped on the Tea and Cakes stand! I did a series of demos from loading a yearling to starting a young horse and getting a breaker used to traffic. Everything went well, except Diesel, my colt, decided to have different ideas to me when I was doing some ‘at liberty’ groundwork! Still, he worked well in the end and I got what I deserve as I just haven’t had the time to put the work in that he needs… that’s the thing about horses, you never stop learning from them!
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