novice 37 test help please

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Hey everyone, i've just started dressage a few weeks back and me and my pony did our first ever dressage test not long ago (prelim 18) we did okay at 52.6% (and we beat other people who had been doing dressage years) for my first ever and my ponies first ever test as we have always done showing, i was really proud of myself and her, however theres another test coming up in a few weeks and its either prelim 12 or 13 or go higher at novice 37, so i've decided to have ago at the novice level and see how we go and if we improve or not, but i can't find the test anywhere and i've heard that the 2007 test had an error or something, so i'm worried in case i learn it wrong, can someone please help me as i don't want to look a fool in front of everyone! Thanks :)
 
Off the top of my head I think Nov 37 is one of the more difficult novice tests if your making a step up, but good luck if you give it a go.
 
As Harry44 says, novice 37 is really quite hard! It's a big step up from Prelim: includes medium trot and canter strides, walk to canter etc.

Maybe look out for a nicer Novice to start at - as mentioned, dressagediagrams website is a great place to source tests
 
Okay thanks everyone, might go to another show then and do an easier dressage test, and was going to anyway as my mum asked her friend their opinion on whether or not i should go up as he does dressage quite alot but anyway it turns out that he knows the judge and they told him about me and my pony, i think at the time he didn't relize but from what he messaged my mum i agree partly with what the judge had said to him that i was on the big side for my pony but i can't help that, my pony was too fast and yes i agree but it was something entially new to both of us and i admit that i was alittle nervous which probably didn't help but the other parts didn't match up at all to my dressage test comments and my scoring and it doesn't match up to what many other judges (from my showing experiance, and comments from people whom have had horses many, many years and they comment that me and my pony are brill) have said in the past, the judge said that my pony wasn't working in an outline at all or engaging her hindquaters, when she was e.g. head in the correct postion (poll at the highest point) extending and really throwing her legs, and she was engaging her hindquaters as i could feel it (if that makes sense) and the photos also showed this aswell, but yet the ones who got told that their horses were working in an outline had their horses head thrown up in the air, noses sticking out and ignoring the riders instructions and some of the horses had their backs bowed inwards (i think thats what its called, can't remember) and i know that my pony was throwing and tossing her head alittle but once she setled she was fine, so i don't think i'm gonna go back their seems alittle like who you know not how good your horse is. but i guess that every judge and show is different and somtimes they just might not like you or your horse, i guess like at every show.
Anyway back on topic, i think that me and my pony should be fine as was praticing some of the movments today from youtube videos etc and we did them fine, but i don't want to over practice them otherwise she'll try to guess. We can do rein back, halt (sort of, still gotta practice that, bless her she doesn't do stand still very well) 3 loop serbentines, canter from walk etc so i don't think it'll be massivly hard, just learning the test and keeping calm and not getting nervous will be the hardest part.
But i'll give either novice 37 ago or go for another novice test at another show, at the end of the day, you don't know unless you give it ago, it could go really well, or it could go really wrong, i don't know until i try :) but i'll have alook at dressage diagrams, thanks :)
sorry its soo long and sorry for any spelling mistakes can't spell for my life
 
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