Trip out for the furry orange one. He still is not travelling as well as he used to. Loses balance round left hand bends although not as bad as he did just after he injured his leg. Am definitely going to take him back to Liphook in May before the insurance runs out and see what they think of him. He feels sound and he moves ok, but I dont think as well as he used to. I dont think I can sell him as I really worry what would happen to him but I wonder if I might be able to loan him out for hacking, sponsored rides, showing and some local dressage. He does really need some riding though so it would have to be someone pretty competent. We shall see what happens over this summer. I could do without another winter with 3 horses!
Anyway, toddled off to Priory with him, nice short journey. No plaiting required as he currently looks very Welshie carrying a bit more weight than last yr! Started with P4. No white boards as the arena is the right size. Sand was very very deep - wont be in a hurry to go back there! Bit tense, but not too bad. We'll excuse the bit where some numpty decided to unload their horse right next to the school just as I was doing my medium walk half 10m circles and he launched himself into the air at the noise the horse made coming down the ramp. He did charge down all 3 centre lines and was generally on a bit of a mission. Took me a lot to hold him but generally it wasn't too bad. He got 68.64% and was 4th out of 17.
10min rest, completely sweaty knackered horse and straight into the indoor for P12. He has always hated it in there. Thought I managed to hold together the trot work ok, but the canter work was quite awful! He didn't want to go within 2m of the white boards at either end so our shapes were interesting and he was very tense. Dont know how we managed 64.4% from a List 5 judge but hey ho. If you think on Friday Monty only managed 61% and his test was sweet and well mannered, there's no way Llewi deserved more but that's dressage for you. He came 3rd in this test out of 27!!! Not seen sheets yet so no idea on comments.
There are videos but they're not exciting and take hours to load so might give them a miss!
Pleased to have got him out again - not sure where is next for him. Would like to have shown him on Easter Monday but his coat is awful at the moment so no point going when he looks such a mess. Prob find some dressage for him in May, hopefully outside! Plan is to up my BD membership to competing at renewal in July and then get him out to some music qualifiers and some BD prelims to qualify for area festivals.
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