Last weekend me and my really good friend went to a TREC competition. We chose to ride from the farm in Hillerød to Værløse where the competition was held. This means we rode about 22 km. We had rented a field they could stand on overnight so they were ready for the competition the next day...
For those who don't know what TREC competition is:
TREC competition is all about good team work between horse and rider. The horse should be obedient and calm. You ride in a team that consists of two people. It's almost one big mix of all sports within riding. There are dressage, jumping, distance and western trail about it. You ride a route, the one we rode was 7 km. On this route there are some exercises, everything from a tree trunk you have to jump over, hills you have to ride up/down, open gates or do gait test - walk, trot and canter. It's great fun!
...Both horses took the trip so well. The following day, we felt the horses were a bit tired after the trip, as they were kind of temperamental to the competition. But despite that, they managed the challenges really good. We came on a 14 place out of 30 riders participating. So I'm proud of Giga and my friend's Irish Cob Tonga.
Our trip was epic :-D We met so many funny people and we have decided that in the future we'll try to ride to every competition!
In our time we forget a little that the horse really was domesticated to transport people around. And exactly our breed the Irish Cob were bred to walk several kilometers a day to transport the Roma people. So we're trying a little to return to their roots and use them as real gypsy horses.
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| Me & Lady Giga |
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| Sir Tonga |
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| Team Traveler Girls! |
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| On our way home |
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| Farum midtpunkt, a ghetto area we held a break and got us some kebab :-D |
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