Yesterday Woodz and I went to a Dressage comp, his first *proper* one in years. He loaded and travelled like an angel
Despite my friend getting us lost and ending up having 5 minutes to warm up
He was very excited but didn't spook at anything despite being in a strange place.
The test was er..interesting
He couldn't contain himself and decided to canter in a walk-trot test...the poor girl who was reading the test made a few mistakes because she was so nervous of getting it right for me! Despite all this we came a respectable 7th with a score of 62.14%, there were affiliated horses in my class so I'm proud of him, he was getting mainly 6s and 7s despite being excited, sticking his hooves in his ears, and cantering
The judges last comments were that he has lots of potential and marks would have been higher if he wasn't so tense and that is was well ridden
(probably means well done for not falling off
)
Hopefully next month he will be more settled as it's not such a strange place for him. I actually liked that he was so excited by it in a way as he obviously still has a lot of interest in going to parties and being ridden despite him now being 20!
Oh and I couldn't forget a piccie could I! Apologies for my hands, he gets very strong when he's excited, and I can get a bit *handsy* when I'm nervous
