We were doing Dressage walk/trot and Traditional Ridden Mares. The dressage was between 11 and 12, and you could slip in whenever you wanted. We had arrived at 10, and were all ready to go at 11, so went first. The judge was a tad late, but well worth the wait; she was lovely! (Then they didn't have a bell, so had to find one, which they did) So we set off
When I had finished, I was happy with our test; Libby was much more relaxed than usual, and came onto the bit at times, which again showed she was relaxed (and probably showing off (; ) AND it was her first test in an outdoor school; (more distractions ahaa) when we were warming up she was looking at everything-especially her reflection in the judges hut window! But when we were in the marked out arena, she seemed to focus alot more :) The dressage photographer was Fab and got some lovely shots (I bought 2, but am going to buy another when they are put online!) Anyway, it was a 2 hour wait till our next class, so i decided to collect our dressage scores. There were 3 in our class, and I wasn't expecting anything at all; the other 2 fells were very good! Imagine my amazement when the secretary gave me a lovely red ribbon! I was astonished! But so so proud! I put it on her, took some pics, and then a huge gust of wind blew the tails arouhnd suddenly, and she must have seen it in the corner of her eye cause she just walked backwards, breaking the bailing twine in the process, but we laughed it off, fixed the twine and started to shine her up a bit for our next class.
In the meantime, the judges who had judged our dressage came and talked to us, gave us some advice, and even said that Lib was a show quality animal! Absolute music to my ears, best compliment of the day!!
We then got ready, tacked up and went to TRM. There was a bit of a wait as they were just finishing off WHP, but we went in after a short while and started the go around. The ring next to us was ridden geldings, and Libby was soo good, as they were cantering around next to us, and she didn't even thing about joining in! When we lined up, I thought I'd be a bit clever; I had watch Traditional Geldings/Stallions, and they did their show left to right, and I had never done this class before so I thought, 'well I'll go at the end right side and watch what everyone does' And did they go left to right? No. They went right to left, so while the judge was looking at Lib's conformation, I was rapidly planning a show (I had a rough idea anyway) It went very well, with libby again coming on the bit every now and then. Out of 5, we came 3rd! So I am chuffed to bits with the Plibster!!
