This blog comes with apologies for having taken such time to write. My last blog ended with “but back to school now” and I must admit that Sixth Form has come as a bit of a shock to the system with a huge amount of extra work. I am taking Geography, Modern History and Philosophy, with a view to hopefully going on to study Law at University.
Paddy came out of the York race really well and for me I think that this was our best race yet – it took ages for the thrill to sink in. The plan was to have one further run this season at Musselburgh and then fingers crossed hopefully the final at Aintree. With three weeks between York and Musselburgh Paddy was able to have a quiet week before going back into proper work. This helped me get stuck in to my first week back at school.
It has been a bit harder work in the lead up to Musselburgh as we have had vey little rain and so the fields that we use here for working have got a bit too firm. This means boxing up Paddy all the time to take him to gallops but otherwise the preparation has been great.
Mum and I set off early for Musselburgh, not as early as some though who had been riding in Ireland the day before for the Shergar Cup! We went through all the usual preparations with Tim Reed before the race and it was soon time for the ponies to come into the paddock. Dad was a bit concerned about the quick ground as Paddy usually like it soft, I was more concerned about poor Paddy having to carry 11lbs extra.
The race went really well, Will Thirlby and Princess Propeller went off really quickly and we set off chasing after him, Paddy led into the straight but we were caught by Abbie McCain and Little Bull and were beaten ½ a length – we were thrilled to bits with the way Paddy tried, especially carrying all that weight. I was really happy for Abbie and Little Bull as like me, this is their last season and it has been great riding with her.
4 weeks to the big day – THE FINALS
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