china
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Took the five year old to his second BD yesterday. It was....interesting ;-) his first BD (and second ever prelim test) he scored 60.4%. Yesterday was our second BD we arrived in plenty of time, tacked him up and then came the dreaded puddle that covered the whole entrance to the warm up, clearly it was acid and his feet were going to melt.. ;-) on the way to the venue I realised I had forgotten my neck strap but he is generally an old head on young shoulders bar a few spooks here and there. Warmed up and he felt lush, really listening and settled, stretching down well and generally gave me a good feeling. Our time came for the first test, P14. This is the first time we had been to this venue and the arenas were lovely, nothing to look at, not even white boards, just the judges shed. We walked down the path and across the grass to the arena and he proceeded to start prancing like a dufus and snort at the rubber in the arena... Bell goes, trot down the centre line and track left, we did trot down the centre line and at X go backwards as fast as you can! I think I even managed to get abit of whiplash with him jumping of the floor like a goon! The score sheet said cautious after X :-D we scored a deserved 53% for that test! Surprised we even got that!
Managed to borrow a neck strap from someone for the second test. Second test was his first long arena test, identical arena next to the previous test just longer. Someone very kindly called for me, he didn't spook anywhere near as much but was extremely tense which was a shame otherwise it would have been a lovely test but I was just pleased he went around without launching himself in the air like a gazelle! He scored 62.17% in the second test so very pleased with that! Just another over 62% and we can do the area festivals. I don't give him enough credit sometimes as he is only five and has only been in full time work since may. He just gets you into a false sense of security with how well behaved he usually is. He is doing county level showing next year and royal Windsor being our first large show, definitely taking a neck strap for that as he has proved how sharp he can be :-D chicken roast dinner up for grabs!
Managed to borrow a neck strap from someone for the second test. Second test was his first long arena test, identical arena next to the previous test just longer. Someone very kindly called for me, he didn't spook anywhere near as much but was extremely tense which was a shame otherwise it would have been a lovely test but I was just pleased he went around without launching himself in the air like a gazelle! He scored 62.17% in the second test so very pleased with that! Just another over 62% and we can do the area festivals. I don't give him enough credit sometimes as he is only five and has only been in full time work since may. He just gets you into a false sense of security with how well behaved he usually is. He is doing county level showing next year and royal Windsor being our first large show, definitely taking a neck strap for that as he has proved how sharp he can be :-D chicken roast dinner up for grabs!