Showjumping/Cross Country Practice day

The practice day certainly had it's ups and downs. Me and Sky had quite a spectacular fall at the cable systems rolltop fences after we tried the 1.05 one. He tripped coming into it and got stuck on top while I sumersulted over his head. He got himself unstuck and stood on my arm in his escape. Fortunately he wasn't lame however, just a bit shocked!!!! The rest of the cross country went alright though, with no major faults. Tried him in the grackle, it made such a positive difference!!! I will definitely use it in the future! Showjumping was good. Sky had a refusal at one of the the fences because  OMG, a PUKEKO flew out trying to maim him!!! After he had braved the pukeko we worked on lengthening and shortening the stride through the double. We got a comfortable two strides, and awkward one stride and a disastrous three strides. In the morning Sky was dancing around like a real prat, with his head up in the air being an idiot. In the end I took Sky out to the jumping paddock bareback and cantered until he stopped being an idiot. That was really fun, it is almost easier to ride his bucks bareback! All in all it was a great productive day, until Sky wouldn't get onto the float. Amanda came over to help any Sky eventually went in. He is really naughty like that, just trying us on. Had a great day - we certainly learnt a lot!