Proudest riding moments???

What a lovely thread to pop up again - missed it before - and really made me smile. Thanks OP you and your fab horse look a great combination, and everyone - Serpentine I just saw your CC happening - brilliant. Going to have a think about me and Laddie and what was best moment for us.
 
Brilliant stories.

Mine is taking my first horse, a lovely little PBA mare from hacking around the block to competing against the Sheikhs in an FEI 1* event at Euston Park. I was born with the horse obsession but into a family who I love to pieces but didnt have the means to fulfill that obsession until adulthood. I never dreamt when I first rode that mare home in the howling wind and rain that she would take me so far.
 
Great story OP, and seriously well done for overcoming your fears. you look fab together. :D Hes a lovely looking chap x

My proudest moment was the other week, finally getting on my homebred 4 yo. That was terrifying, and emotional all in one. Just got back from the yard hes at for schooling, and I am seriously chuffed, as I have cantered him today, and he was amazing. Im off to horsecamp on Friday with him, so hopefully will have some more proud moments after that !!
 
my proudest moment came today, after paying someone to come and school my trotter cross for canter we have succeeded in a very short space of time, in the school. today i took her into her field and schooled her in there, very chilled a bit looky but nothing major. And my amazing mare did an amazing trot to canter transition no rushing and a lovely balanced canter on both reins, at the end of both rein canters i gave her the reins and asked for trot with my voice and she came straight back absolutely made up
 
Great thread with so many heart warming stories!

My proudest moment came many years ago in my first ever affiliated elementary dressage test, riding my 13 yo ex riding school heavyweight cob, who had been nick named 'the plank' by the working pupils due to his unwillingness to bend and tendency to bolt!

We went in and did the test of our lives, coming a close second to Stephen Clarke riding Eternal Spirit, judged by a List One judge! (Was back in the days of all open classes). I got an 8 for my riding, and my cob an 8 for his paces! It was a dream ride.

I had come through Pony Club, and although I was very keen, could never sit properly or get my horse on the bit, and was never good enough to take my B test. I was very stiff and the harder I tried, the stiffer I got!

In my mid twenties, I bought the cob and carried on bumbling around on him as I'd always done. Then I joined a local riding club and decided to enter my (and the horse's) first ever dressage competition! I rocked up to a local instructor, the late Julie Basil, who's heart must have sunk when she saw us (she didn't let on for years that she already knew my cob, and not in a good way!). In that first lesson she gave me the advice that started to transform my riding - 'Relax your elbows' she said.

No instructor had ever told me to relax before. I had always been told to keep my heels down, sit up, keep my hands still, look up etc. The harder I tried to do all these things, the stiffer I got. Julie's advice was a revelation. Once I relaxed my elbows, the rest of me started to relax and then the horse did too!

It was only two years after that first lesson with Julie (there were many, many more to come!) that I entered that elementary test.

I had many more great times with that horse, but that result topped them all!
 
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