Lovely happy pic Flight!
Rosie - you are super inspiring. Actually, you all are, and I love these threads.
We had a pretty good test this morning. The canter strike-offs were horrendously wrong, which is very frustrating as they are supposed to be our strong point, and we got a very expressive 'change' during the first serpentine. So three 4s on the test, but balanced out by five 7s: one for the trot 10m circle right, one for the medium canter, one for the extended walk, one for a simple change, and (crazily) one for the last halt. Seriously, CL halts are normally fairly drunken affairs for us.
I ended up with 60.96, which is our best score to date for Elementary. So I'm super happy. Much to work on, but so much better than the first few shows. I am so tense with the sitting trot when I get before the judge. I lose my stirrups constantly, grippy knees, haywire legs in general. But now it's just practice practice practice.
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Flight, I have to laugh at your "making faces at the judges" line. Odin thinks the salute is the PERFECT time to have a look around
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I have yet to convince him otherwise...
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The aim of argument or of discussion should not be victory, but progress. ~ Joseph Joubert