Can I please see your dressage pics

[terrijane]

Hello, i'm new on here and would love to see your dressage pics especially with grey horses. I'm hoping to do my first dressage comp next month and want to see what i'm letting myself in for

thanks all

 

[JoBo]

Well I don’t have a grey and only compete unaffiliated, but here’s mine on my boys Bodey and Badger.

Go for it, you will do great!

 

[terrijane]

thank you, and you look fab on your boys, I was only going to do a walk and trot test as its my first go

 

[OskyWoskyPonio]

here are mine

is that what you were looking for?? sorry for the pic overload! lol

Edited to add: welcome to the forum and give it a go

it's great fun and you can get some great pointers and tips from the judges

 

[terrijane]

yes exactly what I wanted, what colour did you go for with your grey, im going to be wearing black hat and jacket. Was wondering what colour numnah?

 

[AutumnRose]

Hello

I have a few pics of my boy....he's almost grey/blue/yellow!!!

 

[OskyWoskyPonio]

Well I normally wear my lucky tweed hacking jacket especially if it's at a ODE and a black or navy silk on my skull cap (although in the top pics i am wearing my multicoloured hat! lol) I have a blue jacket that I wear sometimes, just depends which i feel like

at unaffiliated they are more lenient about what colour you wear so long as you are nicely turned out, black should be fine

(remember first impressions count

)
As for nummnah's I usually use a black or white saddlecloth but i have used grey, i think so long as it's fairly plain and nothing like a bright orange or green

They allow horses names on the sides of saddlecloths as i have just had a white one with silver piping done at olympia with oscars name on the side and i will be using that in future

hope that helps?
P.s. it has taken 2 years and much sweat and tears to get him to be like this!

lol and you will come across a wide variety of people on all different horses and ponies at walk and trot and prelim level

 

[terrijane]

oh hes beautiful i love his markings. Ive tried a white saddle cloth on my mare for my local annual show and it really didnt suit her as she is pure white (yellow at the mo tho, hehe)

 

[AutumnRose]

Thanks

I hate using white numnahs too as it definitely shows up his yellowness. As i comptete at BE and BD though i have to really.

At unaff and local stuff you can use black though which i think looks much smarter on greys.

 

[OskyWoskyPonio]

lol that's why i went for a grey coloured nummnah...ohh the trauma of having white (grey) horses!

i need a giant washing machine and some of that vanish oxi-action!!

 

[terrijane]

thank you oscars mum, thats very encouraging. I have only had a my girl for 6 months and i finally feel ready to start some small comps, its exciting stuff

 

[MegaBeast]

Go for a numnah rather than a saddlecloth then you won't see so much of it and maybe have one that's the same colour as your saddle. and Good Luck!!

 

[terrijane]

thank u, i have just bought a black saddle cloth with silver piping, i have black tack so hopefully it will look ok, oohh im getting excited now, i better start practising x

 

[IsabelleJ]

This is my boy and I. He is a pro when it comes to dressage, and I am the green one!

Isabelle

 

[MysteryGirl]

My mare is dapple grey, there's a dressage pic of her in my sig. I use a white saddle cloth which I think looks fine, I do think it's traditional to use white in dressage, not compulsory though. Good luck with your dressage

 

[spookypony]

He's not grey, but he's cute, so here you are:

This one's a bit far away, but it's the only action pic so far...

 

[terrijane]

thank you everyone for your input, will deff post some pics

 

[Mari]

Sighs - Must learn how to put photos on here.

 

[jnb]

Here is my cob (we normally show, but do dressage as well):

As you can see, I wear navy (better for ladies, and I think less harsh against a grey) and I have a champagne coloured saddle cloth. I have seen lemon, which also looks good on greys.

 

[terrijane]

very nice jnb, i agree about the navy jacket and hat it does look better with greys

 

[Befney3]

Seeing as you're giving me an excuse to post pictures, here you go. Chilli doing dressage (we're not great at it, we showjump really)...

Please excuse the bad riding.

 

[Madam_max]

Not grey, but what the heck!

 

[digitalangel]

 

[millitiger]

not grey but here are 2 pictures of my mare's first ever dressage test as a 5yro hence the v.babyish outline;

i always wear tweed but only because i prefer it!

 

[trendybraincell]

I haven't got any more recent competition pictures unfortunately, and these are over a year old I think, but our first affiliated outing

 

[Evadiva1514]

Here are a few pics of my boys, the bay competes in BD and the black cob does unaff dressage. I always wear navy with them both.

 

[TableDancer]

OK, slow Friday morning so here are mine - only grey one first, sorry there's a jumping one too but they're attached to each other

This is Bilbo at his first 3 day event:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=209934&id=1036805569

Then a couple of bays...

This is Piers
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=209948&id=1036805569

And this is my horse of a lifetime Herbie:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=209938&id=1036805569

Apologies for the dreadful position in that one but I never did really master sitting to that trot

And, btw, the tails in all of them aren't because I'm a grand dressage person (as you may be able to tell

) but I'm an eventer and these were all taken at 3 days...

 

[Noodlejaffa]

Here's The Mighty Imp in action just before Xmas...

 

[Baydale]

Not grey, but quite a good one of HH behaving for a change - it was only in the warm-up though!

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?filter=...mp;id=510773133

 

[TGM]

My daughter doing a Pony Club walk and trot test with her old grey pony:

And doing her first affiliated Prelim with her current pony: