Bean and I had a good, but slow, XC round. We took our time, I had decided solid round better than fast round. She gave me a crazy collected canter between fences 2 and 3 that just made me laugh. She spooked a bit every time she saw a person and did not like when we saw another horse through the trees, but she was really quite good. By about halfway through she stopped over jumping and I was able to ride proper like. I was shocked when we were approaching the last fence and there was a rope where there hadn't been when we walked the course, causing us to have to turn around, go back, and reapproach. Oh well.

Touching back on our stadium round: the Taskmaster had neglected to mention that Bean hadn't jumped a course of fences in ten years. And that she was the only one who had ever jumped her. Wish I'd known that Friday morning, as we could have schooled a stadium round and perhaps saved us the messiness of our one that counted.

All good though.