Home now, hot and sweaty!!! (Regionals report)

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First of all lovely to see Big_Black_Beasty and FREESTYLER. Sorry to miss carthorse, and Well done to all.

My show was alright. Not amazing but pretty OK!
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In the Novice Open, Rhiannon did a nice forward, error free test, scoring 68.1% and into the lead........yay!
Unfortunately out of the last half dozen, three higher scores went up.
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So we finished 4th in a big class and with the first 3 qualifying by right I now have the horrible task of waiting to hear about the wild cards.
Will we or won't we get to the Nationals? Everythings crossed!
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Then today, in the Elementary Open, she was doing a stonking test. She felt really uphill and engaged................................


until we got to the canter/walk transitions!
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All three of them we fluffed badly.
I haven't really had her that long and we've just been working on loosening her up and in the canter/ walks or trot/halts I have to be careful not to prepare too soon or she anticipates and drops me. I guess on the day I just bottled it and didn't remember to wait until I was nearly on my marker until giving the signal to walk. Bu**er!
Even with 3 booboos we still managed a 7th place and 66.8% but I'm disappointed'cos it could have been so much more. The judge at C even leant out of her hut at the end and said 'shame', which was kind of her.

Never mind, another day tomorrow and we can all make excuses, eh?

Good Luck for those with regionals still to do.
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Well done, they are brilliant scores.

We all make mistakes and us riders are always the most critical of our tests.

Fingers crossed for the wildcard.
 
Well done I was sorry to miss you but we had to get back it was a long day.I'm sure you will get to the nationals with those scores I think it is a strange system and the rule book seems to miss lead you. I can't imagine any other discipline being so misleading and vague. Hope to see you there as it only down the road from me we will come and watch.
 
Was great to meet up with you....wild card....no probs.. I am on my knees chanting for you already.......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you go girl!!!!!!!
 
Sorry to hear the simple changes went wrong
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Such a shame as shes a lovely horse. Im sure you will get a wildcard tho with a score like that!! Fingers crossed for you x
 
Well done, if I had known you were there I would have come to say hello. I did the novice R, went ok but would have liked it to be a little better. Got placed in the warm up class which I thought was terrible then got 63% in the qualifier which is ok for us as we usually get around 65% and I know they do mark stricter at regionals. Had an unfortunate spook on the last counter canter which meant she changed and then broke, which was such a shame but I just have to keep reminding myself how far we have come in the last year but you know what its like you build yourself up so much for these things.
 
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