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Been quietly plugging away at the old dressage lark since we did our last event early September. Did a couple of Advanced Mediums in early September and surprised ourselves by qualifying for the Area Festivals with two scores over 63% so also half qualified for Winter Regionals. Area Festivals didn't go quite to plan with the spooky silly orange thing not appreciating a new scary arena he'd not been in before and throwing in unwanted flying changes here, there and everywhere! He redeemed himself tonight at Priory though. Dressage in the dark and he coped very well (all that riding after work in the dark pays off!). We managed to complete our Winter Regionals qualification, a year to the day since we did our first Medium - he has just come on in leaps and bounds - still can't believe it! Despite another impromptu flying change ruining one of the simple changes and getting 4's for those 2 movements (expensive mistake!) he got 64.852% and would have been on plus 66% without that mistake. Gobsmacked the little orange dude is pulling this off and even more excitingly, there is loads more to come as I improve my riding (both my seat and ability to think quicker and prepare the movements better) and we get a few more tests under our belts (these were only our third go at each one).
Vidoes in my blog:
http://competitiondiary.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/priory-bd-08-11-15.html
And just to reassure everyone we haven't gone dressage mad, we had a jump lesson on Thursday and jumped some cool, big fences which he appears to find sickeningly easy!
We also did some XC schooling at Tweseldown with Bill Levett and he aced the new coffin complex and some chunky corners. Oh, and he's been for a bit of hound exercise and been like an over-excited child ever since!
If only I could clone him!
Vidoes in my blog:
http://competitiondiary.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/priory-bd-08-11-15.html
And just to reassure everyone we haven't gone dressage mad, we had a jump lesson on Thursday and jumped some cool, big fences which he appears to find sickeningly easy!
We also did some XC schooling at Tweseldown with Bill Levett and he aced the new coffin complex and some chunky corners. Oh, and he's been for a bit of hound exercise and been like an over-excited child ever since!
If only I could clone him!