18/10/2025
Tatti finishes her season on a brilliant DOUBLE CLEAR! 🎉🎉🎉
What a way to end our first educational eventing season! I couldn’t be prouder of how far this little mare has come — especially her brave, bold attitude in the jumping phases. The dressage is still very much a work in progress, but that’s what winter training is for!
Today’s dressage was… eventful to say the least. We arrived just after first light, only to hear there was already a loose horse in the lorry park — which set the tone for the morning. Tatti stayed calm until a third loose horse came galloping past and caught at the bottom of our lorry ramp about four minutes before I was due to get on! At that point, every calming supplement I’d used may as well have gone out the window 🙈
She was tricky in the warm-up and even trickier in the test, so I was quite surprised (and pleased!) to see we’d scored under 50 with a 46.8. The judge’s comment was: “Well managed on not an easy ride.” — fair enough! We know what we need to work on.
From there, she absolutely redeemed herself with a lovely clear showjumping round — still things to polish, like controlling that left shoulder, but it’s all coming together.
Then on to XC, where she was MEGA BOLD! She flew round — finishing 22 seconds ahead of time (even with a trot!) and picking up 2.8 time penalties for being too fast. Her confidence has just skyrocketed and there’s not a lot out there that backs her off anymore, and she absolutely loves it out there.
I’m honestly so proud of this mare. She’s come such a long way since I bought her in February — back then she was green and weak, and now she’s finishing the season full of confidence, strength, and enthusiasm for what’s next.
