LauraWheeler
Well-Known Member
Those who saw my post last week know I entered Herbs into a dressage show on a spur of the moment thing. 
Well Sunday dawned. (Well not to begin with our time was 8.30am So it was a 6.30 start in the dark) I kept him in over night to keep him clean and he rather enjoyed having hay to eat. 
I got him ready and firmly attached his red ribbon to his tail
then waited for my lift to arrive. I had said I wanted to leave at 7.30 so as Herbs didn't load very well they should get to me about 10 - 15 mins passed 7. But as usual they were late and didn't get to me till 7.30 
Herbs true to form refused to load and we didn't leave till 7.40. 
It should have only taken 20mins to get there but we got lost so we didn't arrive till 8.10. When we arrived the gate was locked so I had to go find someone to open it. I ended up only having 5mins to walm Herbs up But there was another horse in the warmup with us and Herbs didn't try to kill them so that was good 
. I had a quick trot round and a very brief canter on each rein. Herbs was going well. We were called in and Herbs suddenly changed.
He was very worried about being in an indoor school. (He's never been in one before) and he just switched off. He does this as a way of coping. He never realy spooks He just switches off.
I just rode the test as best I could. Trying to get him awake again. We managed to canter on both reins on the correct leads but he broke both times. I didn't want to push him to much as if he gets realy stressed he'll just lie down.
Anyway we did it and thats all I care about
This is the test (It cuts out near the end as my card ran out of room Our halt at the end was fab )
[youtube]63TlaJXUVxE[/youtube]
After the test Herbs refused to load again But we got the lungelines out and he soon went in I went home chuffed to bits with my little man. Later when I went back to see the results I couldn't believe we got 59% No where near the placings but about halfway down the class. (there was 33 in the class) So I'm very proud of our first attempt at this level. The judge was lovely about him and just said he needs to be more forwards
Please please no Crit constructive or otherwise. I'm fully aware i'm flapping at him, My reins are to long, I'm leaning back ect ect........ He was totaly switched off and I was doing all I could to keep him going. (and I'm a crap rider anyway ) This little guy has come such along way from the pony I bought 3 years ago and i'm so proud of him.
Thankyou for reading my post and watching the video. xx
Well Sunday dawned. (Well not to begin with our time was 8.30am
So it was a 6.30 start in the dark) I kept him in over night to keep him clean and he rather enjoyed having hay to eat. I got him ready and firmly attached his red ribbon to his tail
then waited for my lift to arrive. I had said I wanted to leave at 7.30 so as Herbs didn't load very well they should get to me about 10 - 15 mins passed 7. But as usual they were late and didn't get to me till 7.30 Herbs true to form refused to load and we didn't leave till 7.40. It should have only taken 20mins to get there but we got lost so we didn't arrive till 8.10. When we arrived the gate was locked so I had to go find someone to open it. I ended up only having 5mins to walm Herbs up But there was another horse in the warmup with us and Herbs didn't try to kill them so that was good . I had a quick trot round and a very brief canter on each rein. Herbs was going well. We were called in and Herbs suddenly changed. He was very worried about being in an indoor school. (He's never been in one before) and he just switched off. He does this as a way of coping. He never realy spooks He just switches off.
I just rode the test as best I could. Trying to get him awake again. We managed to canter on both reins on the correct leads but he broke both times. I didn't want to push him to much as if he gets realy stressed he'll just lie down.
Anyway we did it and thats all I care about
This is the test (It cuts out near the end as my card ran out of room
Our halt at the end was fab )[youtube]63TlaJXUVxE[/youtube]
After the test Herbs refused to load again
But we got the lungelines out and he soon went in I went home chuffed to bits with my little man. Later when I went back to see the results I couldn't believe we got 59% No where near the placings but about halfway down the class. (there was 33 in the class) So I'm very proud of our first attempt at this level. The judge was lovely about him and just said he needs to be more forwards Please please no Crit constructive or otherwise. I'm fully aware i'm flapping at him, My reins are to long, I'm leaning back ect ect........ He was totaly switched off and I was doing all I could to keep him going. (and I'm a crap rider anyway
) This little guy has come such along way from the pony I bought 3 years ago and i'm so proud of him.Thankyou for reading my post and watching the video.
xx
