We did a dressage test today at Waylands Equestrian Centre. Even after my realisation that it was on the 27 feb, instead of my initial idea of the 27th march, which I realised the night before! So after some pretty rapid test learning and tack cleanng, we were ready! Libby was brilliant! Especially condidering we had never run through the test!
We arrived, and she traveled very well :) unloaded, and were running a bit late, so it was a bit of a rush, but we got tacked up and went to the dreaded warm up area! There were about 4 horses in at a time, give or take, and except from wanting to meet every single one of them, (in particular a rather handsome skewbald) she was very good! She wasn't going forward, but this was because she was very tense and excited, so i let her off :) I also believe we left our outline at home (; So she was all warmed up and we went in (it was an indoor school) She was scared of the white boards at first, but got over them after a while, then was absolutely mesmerized at her own reflection in the mirror! We did the test though, and then walked around a bit to give her some experience points, and then went home. I then went back and collected my scoresheet. To my absolute amazement, I had come 3rd(out of about 5-8 people) with 55.3% mostly 5's six 6's and one 7 :) so very pleased with her :)
Next one is 20th March at Snowball farm :)
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Selina x
