CHJA Medal Finals 2008, Nina Maddux

Nina Maddux and Vertical Limit in the Columbine Junior Medal. Phase one. Over all placing, 17th.

This was my first time at medal finals and my horse pulled up lame the day before the finals started, so I was lucky enough to find another horse to ride. Thank you Jill for letting me ride this awesome horse!!! Wish things could've gone better!

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Medal
• Finals
• Colorado
• Hunter
• Jumper
• Association
• Jumping
• horses
• equitation

[EqGirl92]

i really want to make it to the CHJA medal finals(this same class) is it hard to qualify? :D

[Elis207]

The sooner you start the easier it will be to qualify. In 2008 it took me 2 shows, in 2009 it took till Copper Penny in july. You just have to keep trying till you get the 12 points you need!

[horsesrockmylife08]

is this the columbine in littleton?

[Elis207]

It's not the barn, it's the name of the medal class.  But this is in Colorado

[EquitationChampion]

@EqGirl92

haha , this is actually the year that I won.

[EquitationChampion]

@EqGirl92

I won this medal 3 years ago, and it was extremely easy for me to qualify.

I did 2 medal classes that year, won both, and that got me to 12 points.

[Elis207]

He seemed like and Eq/jumper when I rode him, but I'm such a hunter/Eq. rider that I'm pretty soft. And that fence was a blind one, the horse couldn't see in until about 3-5 strides out. So when I didn't close my leg, that's what happens.

[Kirilya]

Well he's a jumper! In my experience hunter courses make jumpers kind of nervous because you ask them to be soft and go easy, which they're not used to, so it makes them doubtful and think that something must be wrong. So that probably contributed to the refusal. But otherwise he looks nice and huntery which I didn't think he could be!

[Elis207]

Yes it is, and he didn't have the eye issure (that I knew of) for finals. He was a great ride, and the refuseal was my fault...it's what happens when you come around a corner to a clind fence and don't close your leg!

[Kirilya]

Is this the same Vertical Limit from Jill Pelzel's barn? The huge bay with the eye issue, Mez? If it is him, I LOVE that horse. Tried him when I was looking earlier this year, jumped him around 3'6", he's FANTASTIC. His eye thing is what dissuaded us but man, can that horse turn and jump. Nice round! I'm surprised he looked at that one jump, though. Everything else was beautiful.