The day started off auspiciously.. beautiful weather, plenty of time to prepare and lots of helpers on hand. I scored a decent enough dressage score with the pair of big kids.. their first public performance as a pair! Then descended into the abbiss....I went into the finish gate before I even finished the cones course and was
disqualified. What a horrendous mistake.. well, we all learn the hard way! Finding out later that had I put in a half decent cones score, I may have won the Combined Test (Cones and Dressage) for training pairs.
I split the pair after lunch and took Rascal. I thought he did a decent enough dressage test, we bumped 4 cones on a very tight cones course. I was disheartened. It sure didn't help that he screamed for his sister who was tied to the trailer the entire time. So embarrassing! So I readied myself and took him out for a clean and speedy Teddy Bear Trot.
To my tremendous surprise... we won! Just goes to show.. don't give up until the very end!
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