Kimchi
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I am so excited I just had to post on here! Yesterday Whin and I went to our first affilated (rated as I am in america) Show.
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The day started out a bit stressful as I had to find my way around a parade while driving my trailer to get to the show and it made me a bit later than I wanted to be.
We both went into warm up rather stressed, I am not sure who needed the warm up more, Whin or me. but finally we hit our groove. Whin is a bit of a ham so she actually gets a bit of extra spark when we are at shows (at least for the first test)
I felt good about our first level ride (sorry I get the BD levels a bit mixed up its the level before elementary) We had a spook away from the judge on our strechy circle but then she streched nicely into the bridle but the circle was a bit wonky. I also forgot to steer on the 15 meter canter circle and it got a bit pear shaped. But other than the fact that I can't steer I felt pretty good about it.
Whin came out for our second warm up in good form, last year she felt that it was very unfair to be ridden twice in one day so she would quite on me sometimes. So I was happy she wasn't sticky. My friend came over to me in warm up smiling and asked me if I had seen my test for the first ride. I said no, she told me I had gotten a 70% which is the highest score I have gotten. I was over the moon about it, as I was not expecting to score that high.
We went in for our Second Level debut (elementary level in BD) We started it out with some excitment as we were rounding the corner to enter at A Whin spooked threw her head in the air. our test would have read;
A enter Wild Gallop
X halt salute
some times you just have to make dressage exciting! She did come back to me quickly but our first medium was not as great. We fluffed one of the turns on the haunches and still had some steering errors, our last canter medium I asked for alot and it turns out I couldn't quite get it back, so we cut our corner badly. All in all I felt it was a good first, second level test. My goal was to score over a 60% and we ended up with a 62% so I was pleased with that.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20198478/photo-55.JPG
I was very pleased with Whin yesterday she tried her heart out, and is really becoming a very sweet mare!
If you have made it this far thanks for reading!
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20198478/photo-53.JPG
The day started out a bit stressful as I had to find my way around a parade while driving my trailer to get to the show and it made me a bit later than I wanted to be.
We both went into warm up rather stressed, I am not sure who needed the warm up more, Whin or me. but finally we hit our groove. Whin is a bit of a ham so she actually gets a bit of extra spark when we are at shows (at least for the first test)
I felt good about our first level ride (sorry I get the BD levels a bit mixed up its the level before elementary) We had a spook away from the judge on our strechy circle but then she streched nicely into the bridle but the circle was a bit wonky. I also forgot to steer on the 15 meter canter circle and it got a bit pear shaped. But other than the fact that I can't steer I felt pretty good about it.
Whin came out for our second warm up in good form, last year she felt that it was very unfair to be ridden twice in one day so she would quite on me sometimes. So I was happy she wasn't sticky. My friend came over to me in warm up smiling and asked me if I had seen my test for the first ride. I said no, she told me I had gotten a 70% which is the highest score I have gotten. I was over the moon about it, as I was not expecting to score that high.
We went in for our Second Level debut (elementary level in BD) We started it out with some excitment as we were rounding the corner to enter at A Whin spooked threw her head in the air. our test would have read;
A enter Wild Gallop
X halt salute
some times you just have to make dressage exciting! She did come back to me quickly but our first medium was not as great. We fluffed one of the turns on the haunches and still had some steering errors, our last canter medium I asked for alot and it turns out I couldn't quite get it back, so we cut our corner badly. All in all I felt it was a good first, second level test. My goal was to score over a 60% and we ended up with a 62% so I was pleased with that.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20198478/photo-55.JPG
I was very pleased with Whin yesterday she tried her heart out, and is really becoming a very sweet mare!
If you have made it this far thanks for reading!
