IDA Mt. Holyoke Spring 06

Well this weekend we went to Mt. Holyoke for the Spring Dressage Show :). It was great! We all had personal bests and overall it was the best the team has done. We finished 8th overall in points, and laura and kat both got ribbons! They both recieved 6th place, I got 10th, and Amy got 11th. But we really did very well for our individual scores :). I got four 7s in my test, basically the canter work/transitions and the freewalk I got 7's on. Unfortunately I was on a very young percheron/tb mare and she absolutely wouldn't stretch out during the stretchy trot circle which counts double for the test. The judge gave me a four, which is sad because it was due to the fact that my mare was young. But She is going to be awesome in a year or two! I fell in love with her. She also baulked a bit at the judge when we first entered the ring for the halt/salute.

I am very proud of her though, and my test with her because this was the frist time she had ever been in a show, much less a dressage show!, and I was her first ride. I am thinking that I'm just going to have to get a percheron/tb cross for myself one day because I keep getting to ride them and I absolutely love them. But a draft cross would probably just suit me best in general! My test was scored a 58.33. So not wonderful, but I still am so happy with the score :). Typically I get atleast a 6 or 7 on my trot stretchy circle, so I recalculated my score with a 6 in the stretchy circle and I would have recieved a 61.66 so thats not bad either...but that is a if I woulda coulda type of thing. So look at the pictures below taken at the show. I think that some of them came out really nicely.