Haha, my name is in print..... FAME at last

[mrgoop]

Not very exciting to most of you i expect, but to me it is fab......

I posted last night about my first ever competition, a level 1 Trec, where me and my boy won the control of paces

Well today down at the local saddlery i looked in the Equestrain Life for the write up..........
And there we were "me and my lad" mentioned by name in black and white

no photo unfortunately, but never mind, to me it was the icing on the cake

I know Sorry i am a SADDO

 

[Cop-Pop]

Well done

Is the control of paces where you do a fast walk then a canter that's slower than the walk?

 

[Spot_the_Risk]

Ha, I was just as excited when me and my boy won our first ever ridden showing class, we had our names in the local paper (alas, no photo!) and I was so pleased. Oh, and I think I was 31 when this happened!

 

[mrgoop]

The control of paces is in a set distance, i think it was 100 metres. It is in a corridor, and it was, firstly to canter as slowly as possible without breaking pace, and then to turn around and walk as quickly as possible without breaking pace. Each is scored with a maximum of 30 points, 60 in total. If you break pace its a "0". We got 27 for the canter and 24 for the walk.
Apparantly according to the judges it is great to have a horse that is good at both, as most get a good score for one pace but a crap score for the other.

I think the next highest score to us was 39, so i was very pleased with 51

 

[mle22]

Congratulations - I read your last post about how you got on and felt really pleased for you.

 

[redmerl]

Not saddo at all.

I would be v excied too. Well done.

 

[Chumsmum]

That's great - well done!

I would frame it