OMG early dressage time!

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Birker2020

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Aaarrgh my dressage time for my one day event on Sunday is 8am. :eek: Luckily I am only a fifteen minute drive away from the yard and I live at the venue at the weekends when I stop with my other half so its not too bad!! Its my fault as I asked for an early time, but I was thinking 9 or 10am not 8am!! LOL. :D Think its because they have got so many entries/classes. I am really looking forward to competing and as the arena is on grass and its meant to rain the next couple of days and the grass will probably be quite slippy I am glad I will be the first horse to go in an arena.

It got me wondering though - what is the earliest dressage time you have ever had? :confused:
 
8:30 am I think with an hour long drive to get there so that was an early alarm.

Worst was that latest dressage time - 10pm and it was running late so I think it was about half 10 when I actually rode and didn't get back to the yard until midnight - yuck!
 
I've had a 7:30 I also asked for early times as was Fleur's first tests as a 4yo. That was unaffil dressage though not a ode.

edit to add and it was a 45 min drive from yard and I lived 20 mins from yard! I arrived at venue at 6:30 and unsurprisingly was first one there :p
 
8.00 am at a BE event two and half hours drive away. Showjumping and xc times were also at 9 am and 10 am, so no time to walk xc course after dressage, so had to be at event at 6.00 am to walk xc course and get ready and warm up for dressage. Yard is 5 minutes drive away from home, and we have a skewbald with white legs and white bum, who always needs a full bath before leaving, so allow an hour at the yard. Do the sums! Yes, getting up at 2.30 am was not too much fun and I am only the driver.
 
8:00AM for just dressage when I still had Smithy - we had to ask for early times as seeing lots of horses would blow his tiny little TB mind! :p
 
Wow 7.30 and 8am thats rather early!! Mine on sunday is 9.14am and i thought that was early and im a livery at the yard :p
 
7.30 (if I remember correctly) doing a young horse class on Rauti, here the big multi-day shows always start around 7 and young horse classes are always the first ones. However there is no travelling involved as you'd travel the day before and stable at the venue.
 
Lost track of the number of days we have left the yard at 4.30 to get to an event. Worst one was Gatcombe on the weekend the clocks changed, so lost another hour. Daughter can sleep in the lorry, leaving me to drive. I find the hard bit is the drive home. Aston Le Walls this year, we were finished by 10.30. Last person went XC at 1.30 and prize giving was 4.00 !!!! Meaning we left home at 4.30 and got back to the yard at about 7.30. I'm sorry to say I couldn't do it without coffee and pro-plus.

One rule I have is no matter how early we leave, stable is left ready to put horse back in. There is nothing worse than arriving home and having to muck out.
 
Not dressage, but show classes at 8am. Meaning I was catching in at 5am, plaiting (takes me ages), sprucing up and going. Arrive at show ground at 7.15am, get ready and warmed up... 8am is plenty early enough to be there thanks!! lol
 
15yr old daughter did her 2nd ode last year, had an 8.10am dressage time & the venue was over 2 hours away. She did pretty well getting 9th place but she hated the long day! she decided afterwards that it really put her off having to travel so far so early so decided to stick to SJ & occasional dressage - can't say I wasn't relieved!!
 
Hmmm I think I have been quite lucky then judging by your accounts of getting up at four and five in the morning. LOL.

My latest dressage time was 9.54pm and we got there and back in the dark. Wasn't nice but was interesting nevertheless!
 
I'm competing tomorrow and I only found out my times this morning - how's that for advance notice from the organiser! Thankfully I've got a post 10am start time :)
 
All our shows over here start at 7 or 8 :) Often have classes at 8am/7am for DR and SJ...and all the venues are an hour away at least, typical! Showing is the worst, SUCH early wake up times.
 
I guess it's not the start time but the distance to venue combined with start time! Especially if it's too far away to drive up in the car the day before to walk the XC, so you have to factor in a course walk too! I've often been one of the first on site, with a 4am alarm call.

That said, at a BE 2 or 3 years ago, I was first or second in my section. Luckily it wasn't far away. But the joy was that I was done all 3 phases by 10am :eek:. Even better as it was an unusually hot day, so my horse was home snoozing in her field by noon, and I was cleaning my tack in the sunshine with a GnT :rolleyes:
 
My earliest has been about 9am ish so not too bad, although the other day I took someone with me who was on at 9.07 and I wasn't on until 11.45 which was a bit of a drag :D

Good luck with your one day event :)
 
Hey done the one day event, and was delighted with how we went even though we never got a placing or so i had thought as for some reason it was decided that it would be timed (think its a new directive from BRC but don't quote me on that). We got 30.6 in the dressage, and a double clear SJ/XC but massive time faults on the XC as I had no stud holes and the ground was slippy from continual heavy rain from the previous day and that morning. And I was quite content with getting round safe and sound.

Then the o/h who lives/works at the riding club text me this morning to say well done I'd come third after all as they had decided to do away with the timing for the last two classes of the day so then thought they would do away with the timing from all the classes. Woo hoo. :)


But then the other half
 
I pulled an 8.30 time for the Regionals at Addington which, as it was a good 2 1/2hr drive away meant I had to leave at 5.00am :eek:
 
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