We have been to Fairoak for a BE jump clinic before but not been in the indoor school so good chance to get him to cope with a spooky indoor with loads of mirrors. It was meant to be xmas dressage o I put his reindeer ears on and a bit of tinsel to make some kind of effort but was well outclassed by elves and santa clauses which had his eyes on stalks in the warmup!
We started with P14 which is the test he won at Merrist Wood 10days ago. Seems it must be our lucky test as he won again today! I think the judge had had a little too much mulled wine or something as probably got an extra mark for every movement compared to normal but so did everyone else from the scores and I'm going to frame the sheet anyway cause we got a 9 for a right canter circle. Previously I'd have been happy with a 7 for a right canter circle as it's always been his problem rein. So, even a generous 9 is well appreciated! The judge wasn't listed but is an Advanced rider. We got 76.25% and her comments at the end: 8778 "Fantastic horse! Kept rhythm and balance throughout. Lovely to judge" Bursting with pride at that - my fantastic orange horse!
Then came to our first Novice since coming back to work - N28. Seem to have found his medium trot in the last week and he did a stonking one in the warmup but not quite ready to produce it in the arena yet so dropped a mark there and a couple more due to him deciding I wanted another canter transition after coming back from counter canter to trot which cost him another win. Marks really close so he ended up 4th. Same judge still on the mulled wine - we got 74.58%. Collectives 7778 "Lovely test and well ridden!" Got another 8 for our centre line comments: "very straight" - never seen on any of our sheets prior to this break as we were like wiggly worms down the centre line. So many comments about good transitions which was always our weak point before. So proud of him!
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