Well the weather was on our side for a change
Got to Manor Farm, tacked up and warmed up, William was very unsettled by a mini shetland that was aloud to roam, and freaked out on the way to the warm up arena.
Did some nice work in the warm up and in we went....................... William turned into a spookie sharp nutter as soon as we went in, he acted like he had never been there in his life . Had discussed with my instructor that I would do the first test in rising trot, so I did, but William was very high in the head he was still on the vertical, but jsut tense, and lookie, even managed to ride on the incorrect diagonal a few times . Came out wondering what I'd been working on all winter, Julie put it down to us both being nervous
anyway had an hour and 45 minutes before the next one, so sat and watched a few tests and had a cuppa, then went back and tacked up ready to warm up for the next test.
Went straight into the arena in rising trot, trotted round the edge and in we went in rising trot, much more settled and really relaxed the both of us that was Did poke his nose in the entry hault but other than that he was a very, very good boy, I was enjoying the test and William so much that I forgot the first give and retake across the diagonal , so she rang the bell and said I had to go back and do it as she had to mark it, I was cross with myself, but we went back and did it, he actually did it very well and finished the test
Came out so pleased it was 300% better than the first test, but I had no idea about the judging as it was a different judge from the first test.
Untacked and went for another cuppa and to watch some more test, and see my instructors hors strut his stuff
Results, well we got 60.3% in the N33 Really didnt think we would of got over 60% even if it was by .3 of a %. So William got his first British Dressage point
Then N37, on the board it said we got 61.04% so another British dresage point
BUT when I went back to tha car I added up the marks on N37 as we had lots of 7's and only one 5, so thought I should of got more, and yes I was right we got 63.6% and so gained another British Dressage point So I went back and told them .
We came 5th out of 6 in N33, and 2nd out of 10 in N37 in the restricted section, and 5th over all just .3% behind my instructors horse out of 17 horses
So William is now the proud owner of 3 British Dressage Points....................................How proud am I
Jane & William
ps William got a 7 for the give and retake that i forgot, so we lost two marks on that for my error
Got to Manor Farm, tacked up and warmed up, William was very unsettled by a mini shetland that was aloud to roam, and freaked out on the way to the warm up arena.
Did some nice work in the warm up and in we went....................... William turned into a spookie sharp nutter as soon as we went in, he acted like he had never been there in his life . Had discussed with my instructor that I would do the first test in rising trot, so I did, but William was very high in the head he was still on the vertical, but jsut tense, and lookie, even managed to ride on the incorrect diagonal a few times . Came out wondering what I'd been working on all winter, Julie put it down to us both being nervous
anyway had an hour and 45 minutes before the next one, so sat and watched a few tests and had a cuppa, then went back and tacked up ready to warm up for the next test.
Went straight into the arena in rising trot, trotted round the edge and in we went in rising trot, much more settled and really relaxed the both of us that was Did poke his nose in the entry hault but other than that he was a very, very good boy, I was enjoying the test and William so much that I forgot the first give and retake across the diagonal , so she rang the bell and said I had to go back and do it as she had to mark it, I was cross with myself, but we went back and did it, he actually did it very well and finished the test
Came out so pleased it was 300% better than the first test, but I had no idea about the judging as it was a different judge from the first test.
Untacked and went for another cuppa and to watch some more test, and see my instructors hors strut his stuff
Results, well we got 60.3% in the N33 Really didnt think we would of got over 60% even if it was by .3 of a %. So William got his first British Dressage point
Then N37, on the board it said we got 61.04% so another British dresage point
BUT when I went back to tha car I added up the marks on N37 as we had lots of 7's and only one 5, so thought I should of got more, and yes I was right we got 63.6% and so gained another British Dressage point So I went back and told them .
We came 5th out of 6 in N33, and 2nd out of 10 in N37 in the restricted section, and 5th over all just .3% behind my instructors horse out of 17 horses
So William is now the proud owner of 3 British Dressage Points....................................How proud am I
Jane & William
ps William got a 7 for the give and retake that i forgot, so we lost two marks on that for my error
