oldie48
Well-Known Member
So, Rose and I went off showing today, me in my borrowed clothes and Rose beautifully prepped by the lovely lady who bought her at an hour old but had to sell when she was three and who hasn't seen for quite a long time (long story). Rose looked absolutely beautiful, for which I can take little credit but the warm up was initially quite challenging. She'd been stood on the lorry for quite a long time and went into the warm up somewhat turbo charged, which was fine until she decided to start napping. My fave trainer has given me so much help in maintaining control when things get a bit sticky and her voice was in my head. I am very proud to say I worked her through it and started to get some decent work from her. In both classes (Senior ridden and Riding horse) she behaved beautifully. I made some basic mistakes because I didn't know the rules, it was a lovely arena but spooky in parts but we coped really well with that and we were second in both classes. I think we were quite close to winning the RHC as the judge took ages to decide and kept going back and forth but I made a couple of errors. TBH I couldn't fault Rose, she was a complete star and I was very happy with our placings. We've qualified for some some further things but not sure exactly what they are. 
