welll varies. generally doing 2 tests in which case:
stretch in walk 8 mins ish
stretch in trot 2 mins ish
then long and low - circles & trans in walk and trot for 2-3 mins. Then a quick canter on each rein, Pick up into competition outline (stretching in canter? brilliant idea if i want to...
It has always put me off majorly in the past! however i did find a horse which ticked all my boxes, and was nearby. He turned out to be pretty expensive, but not quite as bad as I'd thought! He's now mine, and is arriving in a couple of weeks :D
With the sad injury-induced retirement of my pony, I am lucky enough to have purchased a fantastic, experienced dressage horse.
Although I have been doing 2-3 hours of sport a week, as normal, other than trying my new horse I have not ridden for weeks and was surprised how much muscle I had...
I'm really lucky in that I've always just been able to learn tests! having ridden very basic dressage tests on my shetland since age 5, and now moving upwards with my 14.2hh's, i've only gone wrong once in 10 years!
a brief lookover will suffice if i have performed it before, but recently...