only_me
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So dreaded dressage was on saturday, the area dressage dengie. it had that HORRIBLE dressage test in it, with 2 10m half circles with simple changes over X.
Wasnt feeling very hopeful, since riding on friday I couldnt actually get left canter from trot let alone walk
turns out why we have such difficulty in getting walk to canter on left rein is that he throws his right hind out, partly due to the way i ride and partly due to him saving it.
lots of work needed there
Warm up was ok, just concentrated on getting him to bend and trot to canter on left rein, with some very nice walk to canters on the right rein.
The actual test rode quite nicely, shame about the half circle simple change
I even remembered it all - There were very few people who remembered all their test!! my hands are awful, so his head was moving and we got 5's for the half circles which was about right
but most of other marks were normal, 6/7/8s were the range. the little sh*t shook his head numerous times in the free walk - i was swearing under my breath
Ended up on 61.29% which i was very pleased with, as i was expecting very low 50%!! even better it was good enough to come 10th
the winner was on 67% so we will get there eventually lol! rossettes went down to 10th so happy days
then on way home from dressage we decided that we would go jumping (in dressage tack
) at the arena eventing
We arrived just as it finished, but very very very nice owners said we could jump it (we use the arena a lot in the winter) so learnt course and jumped
was fantastic course, lots of interesting fences and merlin was fab
he didnt look at any of the scary fillers/skinnies/giant water trays/pipes/bank/drop, and gave such a good jump over a park bench!
then today i had my B test stable management! I passed
i was a very good pass they said
then hacked horse after B test, and on way home YO bet me £20 that i wouldnt jump the hedge into my garden. Couldnt pass up that bet, so decided to jump it - merlin couldnt understand what i wanted to do
but then worked it out and jumped it beautifully
had to a quick turn though as our garden consists of an orchard
dad wasnt the best pleased - he had just mown lawn
but he didnt think that i could do it either
lol
cookies and cream for those who got this far!
Wasnt feeling very hopeful, since riding on friday I couldnt actually get left canter from trot let alone walk
turns out why we have such difficulty in getting walk to canter on left rein is that he throws his right hind out, partly due to the way i ride and partly due to him saving it.
Warm up was ok, just concentrated on getting him to bend and trot to canter on left rein, with some very nice walk to canters on the right rein.
The actual test rode quite nicely, shame about the half circle simple change
I even remembered it all - There were very few people who remembered all their test!! my hands are awful, so his head was moving and we got 5's for the half circles which was about right
Ended up on 61.29% which i was very pleased with, as i was expecting very low 50%!! even better it was good enough to come 10th
then on way home from dressage we decided that we would go jumping (in dressage tack
was fantastic course, lots of interesting fences and merlin was fab
then today i had my B test stable management! I passed
then hacked horse after B test, and on way home YO bet me £20 that i wouldnt jump the hedge into my garden. Couldnt pass up that bet, so decided to jump it - merlin couldnt understand what i wanted to do
dad wasnt the best pleased - he had just mown lawn
cookies and cream for those who got this far!
