Monday, 13 April 2015

Yesterday Em and I did dressage championships at Sykehouse. Rory and Pait had both qualified for the Intro and Prelim classes through the winter.
Both warmed up sweetly and Pait went first with me hopping off Rory to read for Em.She did a good test although she nearly had Em coming out of the arena as the wind was pretty bad and a dustbin blew over and the lid went across the arena.
I got quickly back on Rory and had a quick trot round then into the arena. Well he went down the centre line turned right and just as I got along side M the metal chairs blew across the patio right at the side of me so the poor lad spooked. Rest of the test he went brilliantly and worked the best he's ever done.
Then a long wait until it was time to do prelim 14 so both ponies got untacked and left to eat haynets for a bit. Again Em was on before me but the horse in between us had withdrawn so I had a quick dive back onto Rory and straight into the ring without having chance to have a quick trot and canter round the warm up first. Again he went fab he had one small blip on the strike off into the first canter when he struck off correctly then decided to do a flying change onto the wrong leg. Bit disapointed with marks to be honest 63% in the intro and 60% in the prelim not seen the sheet for prelim as we left before the class finished but felt sad that we were penalised for Rory's spook.
Thats dressage though I suppose it seems sometimes that unless your on a big moving warm blood they are a lot more critical.
I'm going to have a crack at affiliated at some point.

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