Barn Pixie

umm - woot, I think?

Training level test 2: 62.85% (with her mother whinnying  like a maniac from the sideline - Bob was joking about Kaboose as a stage mom) = 4th place

Training level test 3: 66.8% (with much better behaviour from Kaboose) = 1st place (definitely a woot!!)

Course of 2'/60cm fences with no run-outs or stops, but two rails down (How can she DO that with 2'fences??) = pounding heart but good fun, another definite woot!

ETA: Those two training test scores combined to give us Reserve Champion Training Level Big Woot!!

Kaboose at Training level test 3: 52% = say what? it didn't feel that way at all, but looking at pictures Red Kate took (side note - Red Kate = Total WOOT!!!! it was so awesome to have you!) I guess it wasn't as nice as the work Penny was producing

Bob's daughter Hannah took Kaboose over the Novice and roughlyTraininglevel fences with stops in the first but none in the second. Funny mare.

Overall, lovely day. Kind judge, even if she didn't see what I felt, lovely lovely weather, wonderful people running and supporting the event.

Well, a success on several counts. No puking. No falling off. I did breathe, for both tests. There was laughter and stompage. And a ribbon.

For Ruby I maintained a sense of humor (I burst out laughing at the halt, she was that foolish) and a good thing too because she was classically squirmy for most of the test. Glenatron - we had ring stompage! you would have been proud! One section down, but a majority of feet remained in the ring and we were not disqualified. Final score 54.0% from an Extreemely generous judge. It won us a ribbon! Sixth place, because all the ribbons I have won since I restarted this process are Sixth Place!

Penny behaved verry badly for Bob, cutting corners, failing to canter, breaking from the canter and finally plowing right out of the ring to eliminate herself. I hopped on her and spoke severely for a couple minutes, and we had some much better moments in our test. Again, the judge was generous. She broke the canter in the first canter circle, and then we failed the last canter depart in Training 2 (because she was tired and it was in a mud puddle) but there were some very nice trot circles, and the judge gave us 7s (!!) for the free walk to med walk transition, and for both changes of rein. Final score of 57.14, which is waay better than we deserved.

I compete because I like to know how I stack up. I like to have a goal. I like dressing up in silly clothes and prancing around on a pony. I actually like memorizing my test, and practicing it. I hate the nerves beforehand, and I have trouble talking myself down from them. Once I am riding, I like being watched, and even judged, and I loove the comments.

Also I rather like being done before lunch? I think that is specific to dressage shows, and competing at the lower levels (where I have been all my life!)