BD report with Pictures! Good girl Genie.

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After Regionals didn't go entirely to plan I was keen to get Genie out and competing again with the simple aim of having fun and building my confidence in my ability to ride her. So I entered Mount Ballan last Saturday, all rather last minute, and decided to do the P13SQ and the N28S in the Training section to start trying to get our Novice sheets for Petplans.

I got lucky with a later time (nice to have the first test at 11.30!) and so myself, Mum, Bradley & G-I-T (14 year old Groom-In-Training who came to Addington with us) piled into the lorry on Saturday morning and headed over to Wales. Had fun finding a place to park (downside of a later time) and also found that we were running late. Got her ready quite quickly with the help of G-I-T and jumped on the pony and headed off to warm up.

Warm up she was great, seemed really on-side - as some of you may remember her attitude can be an issue. She doesn't do anything nasty or dangerous, you just have to 'discuss' everything. The lovely PapaFrita met us there armed with camera! She came to visit a few weeks ago and rode Genie and it was lovely to see her again. However G-I-T was under strict instructions not to leave her unattended with Genie in case my pony found herself on her way to Argentina!

Pootled in and did the test, was really pleased with her. She dropped me in the walk and went ploddy but other than that it was nice and obedient. To me she felt better at Regionals, but on the whole I was rather chuffed.

Headed over to get the scores and mine wasn't up despite being right at the end of the class (big class as well!). Then I realised the test sheets had been released and were inside. Tried to find mine and was very pleasantly surprised to find a rosette attached to it! The fabulous pony had scored 70.41% and we came 4th! Hello nice points towards Summer Regionals.

We had over 2 hours between our tests, so a leisurely lunch was had by all!

Unfortunately G was not so on-side when she came off the lorry for the Novice. It wasn't a fab test and I was pleased to get 62.5% (It was more than I felt we deserved!) Glad to be able to use it towards Petplans at least and it was good experience for me to ride her through a Novice test when she's being a witch!

PapaFrita took some most wonderful photos of her. She could be a bit rounder in the medium trot (both taken from the warmup) and she needs to give with her lower neck more, but as the only real comment from regionals was 'needs more spring in the trot', I am quite pleased!!!

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Thanks everyone! Really chuffed with her! Perhaps she wants to become a hover-pony?

monkeybum - Slightly better than they seemed before, but all the same colour and not the nicest. At least I got one this time though!!! (For those who are wondering, when mb13 groomed for me at Mount Ballan a while back, I came 3rd and didn't get a rosette which was rather disappointing, and they were incredibly cheap tiny ones which when you pay £19 for one test is not very inspiring! Not that it's all about the rosettes of course...)
 
Cracking trot and well done.

As a very new person to BD who is finding it all incredibly complicated, can I ask why you did the training section - is that so you don't get points and put yourself out of a level or something along those lines. I know I could look at the rule book but being lazy what are training sections all about?
 
humblepie said:
As a very new person to BD who is finding it all incredibly complicated, can I ask why you did the training section - is that so you don't get points and put yourself out of a level or something along those lines. I know I could look at the rule book but being lazy what are training sections all about?
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Training sections don't get points, don't affect rider group (though novice doesn't put you out of prelim rest. anyway so this is only relevant for elem & above). They also don't go on record if you're a little worried about getting a bad result. You can use them to qualify for area festivals, but not regionals :)
 
Thank you!

humblepie - We have a RC Qualifier coming up at Prelim, and she wouldn't be able to do it if she had BD points. :) So we get the feedback and can use it towards Petplan Areas without making ourselves unable to do the RC class. :)
 
Ah, thanks for that. I do find BD immensely complicated compared to showing where it is novice or open and that's about it! We are not a million miles away from you so will keep an eye out to say hi if at the same place.
 
It's certainly very different to showing! Please do say hello, I'm in a purple 7.5t and will often have G-I-T and a fluffy white dog with me!
 
Well done! I'm very upset that everyone can see the pics except me, though, as I love a nice Genie pic :)
 
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