trendybraincell
Well-Known Member
Its been a rather eventful lead up to the team dressage yesterday. Another livery and I made up the Novice half of the team with Miss_C and another RC member doing the Prelim.
I was getting a lift with the girl from my yard, but she sold her lorry and it went to its new home last week
luckily the dad of another livery kindly said we could use their lorry, we were a bit concerned as both Shadow and Vogue can be difficult to load so we'd been planning how we would best approach the situation. I got the the yard thursday and got told that Vogue had a cut right across the width of her tongue so she was out of action We could still go as a team of 3 but that really put the pressure on. So, another livery came to our rescue and donated her horse for the day
So yesterday comes round, I had an early start plaiting everything an loading the lorry etc. The owner of the donated horse drove us their as its her old lorry. Other livery was up first, and despite only having sat on the horse the day before she put in a stellar performance. He's a gent of the horse, but not easy to ride and the judge picked up on all the obvious problems, but the test was mistake free. She got a very respectable 62. something. Placed 13th, but 13th to 7th were all within 1% of eachother
The Welsh Cob and I were up next. I have a real problem of recent forgetting my tests half way through, I have even been going wrong with a caller so I was uncharacteristically nervous The warm up was mayhem, I'm just so grateful the cob is unflappable. headed over to the test arena, pushed for a few big mediums before starting.
I didn't ride him to the best of my ability, but I was more focused on riding the correct movements and accurately. I got to the end, was so pleased about not making a mistake I was all ready to hug the pony so my salute was a little muddled Anyway, I finished 5th with 66.1% (first was 68.1% so not far off)
The most fun was had on the drive home the borrowed lorry is a 31 year old bedford and other livery had to drive it back (having never driven it before). It took us several tries to get the ramp up and closed properly, it took another 10 minutes to get it started and find a gear...any gear. Then I had to hold the gate whilst she drove through and run to jump in after! The whole drive back people were laughing at us, probably because of the look of terror on her face But we made it back in one piece and I'm very proud of her for driving!
Have permission to post this picture from our photographer friend
Sour cream & chive crisps with giant red bull can for getting to the end
I was getting a lift with the girl from my yard, but she sold her lorry and it went to its new home last week
luckily the dad of another livery kindly said we could use their lorry, we were a bit concerned as both Shadow and Vogue can be difficult to load so we'd been planning how we would best approach the situation. I got the the yard thursday and got told that Vogue had a cut right across the width of her tongue so she was out of action We could still go as a team of 3 but that really put the pressure on. So, another livery came to our rescue and donated her horse for the day So yesterday comes round, I had an early start plaiting everything an loading the lorry etc. The owner of the donated horse drove us their as its her old lorry. Other livery was up first, and despite only having sat on the horse the day before she put in a stellar performance. He's a gent of the horse, but not easy to ride and the judge picked up on all the obvious problems, but the test was mistake free. She got a very respectable 62. something. Placed 13th, but 13th to 7th were all within 1% of eachother
The Welsh Cob and I were up next. I have a real problem of recent forgetting my tests half way through, I have even been going wrong with a caller so I was uncharacteristically nervous
The warm up was mayhem, I'm just so grateful the cob is unflappable. headed over to the test arena, pushed for a few big mediums before starting.I didn't ride him to the best of my ability, but I was more focused on riding the correct movements and accurately. I got to the end, was so pleased about not making a mistake I was all ready to hug the pony so my salute was a little muddled
Anyway, I finished 5th with 66.1% (first was 68.1% so not far off)The most fun was had on the drive home
the borrowed lorry is a 31 year old bedford and other livery had to drive it back (having never driven it before). It took us several tries to get the ramp up and closed properly, it took another 10 minutes to get it started and find a gear...any gear. Then I had to hold the gate whilst she drove through and run to jump in after! The whole drive back people were laughing at us, probably because of the look of terror on her face But we made it back in one piece and I'm very proud of her for driving!Have permission to post this picture from our photographer friend
Sour cream & chive crisps with giant red bull can for getting to the end
