Mighty Mangaroo - The Journey Continues

Excitement is growing as we get closer to leaving for Bromont CCI! Roo is doing fantastic and feels great as we make our final preparations. We had a chance to jump with Buck Davidson last Thursday and he thought we looked ready to go. The hardest thing at this point is to not over do anything, trust that you are ready and just keep everything tuned.

We have a couple of gallops left which will consist of some short fast works to develop wind and sprinting fitness. We are also doing a couple of dressage schooling shows that will allow us to ride through our CCI** test in a competition ring atmosphere. Roo's dressage is good and keeps getting better. I am hoping that we will put in a very competitive test.

I know that several people have made plans to join us to watch in Quebec. If anyone else is interested check out the Bromont website for dates, times and suggested accommodations. Bromont offers a fabulous venue with an international flare. The cross-country is spectacular and very spectator friendly. We would love to have you join us!

Mighty Mangaroo Update

Hi Everyone!

I just wanted to send you an updated schedule of the competitions that Roo will be running. We decided to aim for the Bromont CCI** in June rather than the Jersey Fresh CCI in May. Bromont offers a beautiful venue, fantastic footing and phenominal cross-country course. It was the site of the Montreal Equestrian Olympic games and still holds some of the same flare. It also gives me a chance to ride a few more competitions at the intermediate level with him in hopes of continuing to develop a partnership that will be very competitive in June.

We had fantastic runs at both Southern Pines and The Fork Horse Trials in March and April. I am sending a link to a couple brief videos that Steve took at The Fork horse Trials for you to see. An unfortunate rail came down in stadium (he seems he barely touched it!) that kept us just out of the ribbons in some extremely tough competition but overall Roo put in a great round.





I am looking forward to this coming weekend at Poplar Place in Georgia. I will be riding both Roo and Kathleen's horse King Billy in the Open Intermediate division. We were lucky to catch a couple of fantastic lessons and schooling sessions with west coast rider Amy Tryon while she was in Aiken preparing for the Kentucky Rolex Event. She had some great ideas to focus on in the show jumping to keep Roo's feet moving quicker and some pointers for my position to help keep Billy straighter on the cross-country course. I am anxious to give them a try this weekend.