Horses for courses

Did a lot of work on Saturday and cleaned up.

Sunday was horseriding day.

Rosie went to ride at a beginners training showjumping day. (that's one event) In Port Elizabeth. We all went to watch.

Now going to ride in another town is just like going to an away regatta.
All very exciting packing and getting there. Great fun while the event is on. But.......................... all the time you have it in the back of your mind that afterwards you must pack up all this lot and still get the horse (the boat) back home. And it's going home where things normally goes pearshaped. I.e. trailer wheel comes off, delivery trip home with the boat always turns out to be a headwind, etc.

Luckily none of that happened and all went well. The horse she rides is called Lizaar. I call the thing Bizare.
She had two clear rounds and in the third round the horse stops short of the 3rd last jump. Not a sausage is he jumping. She gives him a smack and over it goes. Kinda like you have to put in an extra tack to clear the weather mark in a sailboat race.

Two jumps to go. Over the next one, but the horse is now really acting Bizare. He spots the exit gate and takes a sharp right out of the arena. Like when the guys at the back of the boat misreads the sailing instructions for shortened course and heads the boat for the finish line and leaves out the last mark by mistake.
On the way to the exit gate Rosie loses it and starts to slide off the horse. Some chick catches her at the gate and slides her back on again. Almost like a man overboard, but not quite.

So they miss out on the last jump and gets a no score for that round. We're all happy that she gave the day her best shot and try hard not to laugh about the bizare incident with Lizaar (Bizare).

Great day out.

Oh, yes. I now know why the boat's outboard engine is refered to as how many horsepower.
"horsepower" taken from horses. An ouboard engine is as tempremental as a flippen horse.

And all those hot girls at the riding. In those tight riding pants. Gee.........they've got terrible panty line problems. Well, most of them.