Gorgeous George
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This weekend George and I went off to another competition, dressage again at Norton Heath. I was still pretty nervous but I do feel like I'm getting better dealing with the whole competition experience etc. and not getting quite so wound up
We did the walk and trot test in the indoor arena and George was a little star and got 68% and came 2nd
We then had a go at prelim 4, quite a difficult test for us as it involves cantering circles in the middle of the arena, as we both have dodgy balance it was always going to be tricky
I was a bit nervous as it was in a big outdoor arena with display boards and a photographer and that got George all goggle eyed too! Anyway we had a go and did it, we did leave the arena once
and when we did right canter (his most unbalanced) he shot off quite quickly and I was heard to shout 'oh sh*t'
luckily the judge had his car windows shut
Anyway we got 54% and came 15th out of 30 so not too awful and the judge put 'very promising horse with 3 correct paces who obviously tries hard'
So all in all a pretty good outing
Hope I've not bored you all to tears!
We then had a go at prelim 4, quite a difficult test for us as it involves cantering circles in the middle of the arena, as we both have dodgy balance it was always going to be tricky
So all in all a pretty good outing
Hope I've not bored you all to tears!
