Dressage with natives & an intro

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How many of you successfully compete at BD with a native and if so at what level?

I'm not aware of many but have seen plenty at unaffil levels.

I've taken the plunge and bought myself a new baby pony to eventually bring on and compete :)

meet my new unlikely dressage pony Pepper
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He's a 2 year old pure bred Highland. He currently resembles a ski jump being totally bum high at the moment, but has a lovely fluid movement and I have high hope for him.

might start buying the matchy matchy for him now!
 
star said:
I've done up to Elem BD with 2 different pure Welsh D's. There are plenty of natives out there doing BD.
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I second Star, theres lots out there. There have been quite a few recent thread on the BD forum about competing natives, think it was mostly about D's, somebody has a D competing PSG :D

I have done elementary with my D but that was just testing the water :rolleyes: he's very well established at Novice, in fact we have a wild card to the petplan championship next weekend :D I'll take him as high as he can go, and I will certainly be after another D in the (far) future to continue in dressage
 
LOVE your pony! I have one very similar :D

Do you go on the highland talk forum? I have read about someone competing their highland at medium or possible higher, can't remember who but sure it would be easy to find.

Best of luck with him :)
 
Thank you :)

Am excited about the future with him and am lucky enough to have access to some fantastic classical trainers.

I'll have a mooch on BD and have a look for that thread.

Trendbraincell - love your D, stunning horse!

Star - love the pics in your signature
 
BuzzLightyear said:
Thank you :)

Am excited about the future with him and am lucky enough to have access to some fantastic classical trainers.

I'll have a mooch on BD and have a look for that thread.

Trendbraincell - love your D, stunning horse!

Star - love the pics in your signature
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Thank you :D he's a super chap, although I am obviously biased.

You're wee chaps BD career is obviously a way in the future yet, but do keep us updated. How is he bred?
 
My spotty horse in my sig is half welsh and im hoping to go as high as possible in BD with him! He is only 4 atm (will turn 4 beginning of may) so just started backing but he has really lovely paces so he should do quite well.
then I have my pure exmoor filly (also in my sig) who is rising 3 this may/ june time. probably wont be getting amazingly high with her considering she is 12hh and i am 5ft6 but def aiming to compete prelim and novice level with her!
 
I do unaff elem with my D, everyone says should aff though. I know a quite a few m+m's that do aff BD. One welsh D was on GB teams last year, another D who is only 5 just did his first elem's at the weekend getting 64% and 68%. Both ponies usually get about 70% if not more!! Always good to see a nice m+m go in and do fab clean test as a warmblood is dancing on its back legs for no apart reason. Might as well go for it and give the horses a run for their money :)
 
I have a mostly welsh d with a little bit of arab in him who has been doing well at unaffliated and I have joined BD with him this year. Even though he may not be as flash moving as the warmbloods he still scores well. Hes 13 now and has had some unsoundness problems in the past so not sure how far he will go but will see how things work out. :)

This is him:
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Good luck with your guy. Hes beautiful. :)
 
Arrr! He looks sooo cute! (and hairy! lol) Annabel I like your boy he looks very smart!

My new forest pony competed up to novice level and still gets over 60% consistently at unaffiliated novice dressage (he is 25 now!) bless him. I think natives are great for dressage and they keep going for a long time!
 
After a very successful showing career Quest of Mendick turned to dressage qualified for the regionals up to advanced medium and he is a purebred Highland :)
 
I have a 13.2hh welsh sec C and he has a lovely natural movement! Would love to take him further but sadly don't have the time or funds at the moment.
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my 18yo welsh D did affiliated dressage for the first time this winter we did several novice tests and didn't disgrace ourselves in and elementary to finish off. Now gone back to schooling as he really needs to learn counter canter (who says you can't teach and oldie new tricks :D )

this is him last may.. have improved loads since then .. and chopped his feathers off, which TBC has told me off about!

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photo_jo said:
After a very successful showing career Quest of Mendick turned to dressage qualified for the regionals up to advanced medium and he is a purebred Highland :)
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I remember watching Laura Fry with him when I was first starting out with my Welsh C - I loved him and it was so inspiring! My pony and I are now dipping our toes in BD medium and see loads of other natives out and about :)
 
OH welsh D is now competing (and winning) at BD Adv.Med level.
They started their dressage career 9 years ago at unaff prelim where the only objective was to NOT drop canter. Now has over 300 BD points.
Cant see any reason why she wont get to PSG. :D
 
Lots of new forests do BD and very successfully. I do some unaffiliated dressage with my New forest and have beaten warmblood dressage type horses.

I don't do BD with mine as I don't ride well enough but he would be more than capable with a more competent rider. My instructor reckons any horse or pony can be schooled well enough to be competitive at up to elementary affiliated with the right rider.
 
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