Your very worst dressage test/score....was what?!

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PLEASE make me feel better about getting not one, but 2 '3's for my blinking 'walk on long rein' and 'medium walk' (please read stand, spook, run backwards instead of walk)...!!!

lol!!!
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Some years ago now...my daughters little pony at pony club Horse Trials ... it went something like this....
Enter at A, proceed down centre line without halting: unless your pony is a bit peckish, in which case Halt at X for a few minutes, kick like crazy while your pony has a little snack on the lush grass, then continue in working trot. C track left ....
She got a very generous 3 !!!!
 
No idea what my score was as it was a while ago but I came last in an RC prelim with my crazy mare (who i sold!) and got a rosette saying OOPS on it! I was 26 at the time.... think the rosette was for kids lol but the organiser decided to cheer me up!!
 
my friend got two 0 for two canter movements in a affiliated dressage test!! and she did canter!!
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and my worst was in 2003, at the area pony club trials were i did the novice on my old pony who didnt go on the bit - we got a 78
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and thats were the lowest counts
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i have improved a lot since then
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The first show i went to i forgot my test half way through the pre lim test, the judge had to prompt me, then i got 43% in the novice test. v.v.embarrasing.
 
Well you should have schooled your horse properly beforehand! I would never do anything as bad as that!
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The dressage arena is for Divas only!

Love Dozzie.
 
My very worse - 36% on my ex race horse turned, I left the areana twice (oops). It was my very first ever.

Oh well have since got nearly double so I can say admit to the above
 
39 per cent on a totally mental 7/8 TB chestnut mare. SHe had never done dressage before and just wanted to gallop around the arena. The good news is that eventually she calmed down, got good scores and even won a dressage competition!
 
well, i managed to go wrong twice and get a couple of 0s or 1s *(can't remember exactly) in an Advanced dressage test, top hat n tails and all. i truly can't remember the percentage, i must have deliberately wiped it from my memory, or i would have totally given up, i think!
it went: enter in the tensest canter in the world, skid to a halt, salute. proceed at canter (supposed to be trot), turn left, spook violently at boards and end up in middle of arena... in fact, the mare pretended to be so frightened of the boards the whole way round, through the entire test, that we didn't get within 6' of them... not easy to do a canter serpentine in a mini-arena made by horse's hyperactive imagination within the 20x60 arena!
i was so worried i'd go wrong a third time and get eliminated that i froze with horror and could only think and steer... really helped, as you can imagine.
since i was wearing the full rig, i think that's got to be the worst, hasn't it? i nearly died of shame, anyway.
 
Kizzy & me used to leave the arena in gallop fairly regularly in the olden days, we once careered through the arena of a very fierce looking lady riding her test in the next arena
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the writer for the adjoining judge said later "I will dine out on that story for weeks, every time I looked up there was a black pony galloping past the car" OMG, time to curl up & die, though on reading the post above, at least it was an unafil prelim!!
 
I got a 2. We did 'canter left at A' sideways across the arena....... I also got a 4 for 'halt at x' with 'eventually' written as the comment
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Haa haa CL - are you still dwelling? I'm aiming to a) beat you next time and b) get atleast 10 points more than we did last time......

Healthy competition is what we need me thinks.

Lowest score have to buy the beers afterwards x
 
My first dressage test on current horse 5 years ago - DNF!!! Refused to go anywhere near the gallery with lots of scary people and glass and such. Treid a few "tense" circles at the other end, and basically ran out of time. Judge was very sweet and encouraging. Luckily, improved now - got to Regionals two years in a row and almost made the nationals. So there is a god.
 
Firstly, CL, Dozzie is very naughty and should not have said what she did. Success has gone to her head, I think!!!

Dont think I've ever got lower than a 4 tbh!

But there was a funny occasion when i was eventing my old boy. A friend came with me who had only gone to pure dressage with me before. I sent her off to look at the score board and she came back looking very glum. When i asked her how i had got on she said "not very well." " What do you mean not very well?" "Well" she said "You are not last....but you are second from last! " "What?????? I know his dressage isnt fantastic...but he is normally in the top 10" "Yep" she said, "score of 32. " Suddenly realised that she hadnt realised in eventing the lower the score the better! We did laugh!!! So I guess thats the lowest Ive had but it was a good score for eventing!!! LOL!!

From Dozziesmummy!!!
 
My worst is 54.5% out of the three dressage tests I have ever done
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dressage is like a mental block for me people are like yeah its boring int it i'm lik no I quite like it but I just can't do the test
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Cant remember the score but I do remember doing my first test on my new horse (after moving up from ponies) - we left the ring twice and I dont believe we did the correct pace at all (ie. we cantered when we should have trotted etc.) - dreadful.

My most amusing was at a BE thing with one of my current horses, did my test ok and just came to my halt at the end and salute when horse shot sideways and spun round chucking me off and bolted out of the arena back to my mum!

My best score was a crazy 82% for a test I did on my Welsh Cob who was only a 4yo a the time. Just a little riding club event but made me laugh so hard because it was truly awful - I think the judge was blind.
 
47%, on idiot boy in a very spooky indoor. He refused to go near A as there were clearly evil ghosts there. When I tried to make him, he ran backwards on his hind legs. That was probably the best bit LOL.

Same horse got something in the high 60s (can't remember exactly what) ten minutes later in the outdoor school. Sigh.
 
we're yet to try dressage, but I'm sure when we do we will have some amusing comments. We're both a bit dysfunctional on our own, let alone as a team!
 
Several years ago I stupidly agreed to ride a friends new horse in his first test ( prelim) in the days when you entered and halted at X - we entered sideways at canter, couldn,t halt and did the whole test in about 60 seconds !!!!!!

I got several 0's movement not performed and the rest 1's - out of control.

She said it was the best he had gone cos I was still in the saddle at the end!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
well i guess my worst was when i executed a change of rein early in the test in trot however my mare clarly felt that the white board is for jumping and we jumped out of the arena reentered at A and proceeded continue the test where we left off...

judges comments read "very promising horse, much suited to the jumping arena next door" --> thankfully it was a low key affair held locally!!!

the lowest actual score I recieved was 52%, having said that ive only ever done 10 dressage tests in my life
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I once got 55% in an affliated novice at Merrist Wood. Not sure how I managed that high TBH. The horse was terrified of the giant father christmases, tree, flashing fairly lights and garlands around the arena. I couldn't get the the edge of the arenas, didn't canter at all and she leapt and ran into the middle of the arena everytime I attempted to go near the fairy lights! I took her back in for the scond test and DNF as it took me 4 and 1/2 minutes to get her to A to enter the arena! She then stood in the middle scared of the decorations and wouldn't go to the exit of the white boards- in the end the judge got out of the car and led me out- very embarrassing!
 
I remember watching my brother do an intro dressage test on my mare and being helpless with laughter as she refused to do anything properly! She was so excited because she could hear the xc tannoy that she just couldn't focus and saw the dressage boards as jumps. They got two 0's and several 2s but the best part was the judge was crying with laughter as well. My brother actually managed to get a 6 for his halt at the end as she did stand still, just for a second. The comment was "I'm completely lost for words. Good glue on jodphurs I think. Watch out for flies on the cross country!" I have always remembered it because she could have slated him but recognised that he was trying and that the horse just wasn't playing ball. He wasn't discouraged and actually found her comments fair but light hearted. He went on to score 65% in their next test and finished 9th and said he probably wouldn't have competed her again if the judge wasn't so nice! There's always hope!
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48% on a friends ex racer, it was his first ever dressage test and his first outing since finishnig his racing career, he behaved well and I was very pleased with the progress he made, so I was happy anyway.
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LOL at these, and yes, ParkRanger, I am still dwelling on Bruces poor 3s for walk...fine in canter, but WALK? Peeeerrrrllleeeeessseee

Prelim 7 here we come...and they dont call it stressage for nothing lol x
 
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