Second dressage outing of the year.
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Truck ran well there and back. (Scoring a win, there.) I remembered to pack all of my horse tack and my boots and my helmet. (Scoring another win.) I backed the truck and trailer appropriately into the parking space. Horse did not roll and be filthy after I washed him the night before. I remembered our coggins paperworks. Seriously chock full of winning. I also roped Trys into bringing Tinnie along for moral support.
Intro B there was breathing. It wasn't my best Intro B ever, but I did fucking breathe and I didn't lock up into meltdown. It had bobbles and inconsistencies but it wasn't a shitshow like last time. We got a 64.38%.
Notable comment was "Use aids to get horse connected over back"
Impulsion & Submission were 6's, 7 for Rider Position, 6.5 for everything else.
Intro C was better than Intro B. It wasn't fantastic but it was workmanlike. 64.25% with a comment of "Nice consistent test, start to use your aids to get more from your horse"
Collectives, still a 6 on submission, 7 for gaits, rider position, geometry, 6.5 for impulsion and effectiveness of aids.
We got second place and reserve champion in both of our tests. The Reserve Champion thing comes with a honkin' big sash thing that is embarassingly large. It is also going to hang to my rather dainty Arab's knees, but I will get a picture of him tomorrow wearing his ribbon sashes. (He will look feral. I'm OK with that.)

There were actual other people in our tests so we beat people (Six in the one class, seven in the other) if that matters.
But MOST IMPORTANTLY OF ALL, dressage judge was the SIDE REINS judge from 2015, the one who kept telling me to put my horse in side reins and wrote that on all of my tests. (I keep my old tests.)
GUESS who did get any fucking comments about side reins? THIS WOEFULLY REDNECK RIDER. Go me!
Things to work on...
1. Still working on breathe in the ring, ride the damn horse.
2. "Use aids to get more from your horse"
3. More energy in trot
4. Bend more in corners
I gimped around the show when I had to be on foot because I bust up my toe last night stumbling to the bathroom around 3 AM. I knew it was not a happy toe, but I'd already paid my entry fee and the ER just tapes that shit to the next-door toe and tells you to take it easy. I can do that at home and save my $$ so I did.

Intro B there was breathing. It wasn't my best Intro B ever, but I did fucking breathe and I didn't lock up into meltdown. It had bobbles and inconsistencies but it wasn't a shitshow like last time. We got a 64.38%.
Notable comment was "Use aids to get horse connected over back"
Impulsion & Submission were 6's, 7 for Rider Position, 6.5 for everything else.
Intro C was better than Intro B. It wasn't fantastic but it was workmanlike. 64.25% with a comment of "Nice consistent test, start to use your aids to get more from your horse"
Collectives, still a 6 on submission, 7 for gaits, rider position, geometry, 6.5 for impulsion and effectiveness of aids.
We got second place and reserve champion in both of our tests. The Reserve Champion thing comes with a honkin' big sash thing that is embarassingly large. It is also going to hang to my rather dainty Arab's knees, but I will get a picture of him tomorrow wearing his ribbon sashes. (He will look feral. I'm OK with that.)

There were actual other people in our tests so we beat people (Six in the one class, seven in the other) if that matters.
But MOST IMPORTANTLY OF ALL, dressage judge was the SIDE REINS judge from 2015, the one who kept telling me to put my horse in side reins and wrote that on all of my tests. (I keep my old tests.)
GUESS who did get any fucking comments about side reins? THIS WOEFULLY REDNECK RIDER. Go me!
Things to work on...
1. Still working on breathe in the ring, ride the damn horse.
2. "Use aids to get more from your horse"
3. More energy in trot
4. Bend more in corners
I gimped around the show when I had to be on foot because I bust up my toe last night stumbling to the bathroom around 3 AM. I knew it was not a happy toe, but I'd already paid my entry fee and the ER just tapes that shit to the next-door toe and tells you to take it easy. I can do that at home and save my $$ so I did.
