Update
So Dante and I did Jumpers Stumpers about a week and a half ago. Despite it being cold and him not having been consistently ridden the previous week, we did very well, jumping up to the 3' classes. Out of 5 classes, he got a 2nd, two 3rds, and a 4th. The fifth class was our warm up class, the second 2' 6'' class, and I went as slow as I could so he wouldn't get too excited. Despite that, we still got 7th out of a class of almost 40, not half bad.
We were supposed to go do our first BN this weekend at Spring Bay, but the farrier trimmed his feet a little too short the week before and when we went for a blow out, he was lame the next day. So we withdrew from Spring Bay, but it turned out to be a good thing because the weather was AWFUL. It poured and rained and the wind blew and the temperature was in the 30's and 40's all weekend. In mid-April! Dante would have had to cross a creek bed that had turned into a river on cross country; waaay too traumatizing for his first event. We'll do May-Daze instead, hopefully the weather will turn out better then, and no school then!
We were supposed to go do our first BN this weekend at Spring Bay, but the farrier trimmed his feet a little too short the week before and when we went for a blow out, he was lame the next day. So we withdrew from Spring Bay, but it turned out to be a good thing because the weather was AWFUL. It poured and rained and the wind blew and the temperature was in the 30's and 40's all weekend. In mid-April! Dante would have had to cross a creek bed that had turned into a river on cross country; waaay too traumatizing for his first event. We'll do May-Daze instead, hopefully the weather will turn out better then, and no school then!