Last night was the first one in the series so I asked Liz to come down & warm us up. It was good as we did lots of transitions etc where as when I warm up by myself I tend to niggle and make things a whole lot worse than they need to be. We went through a few movements of the tests we had to do which was good also. Unfortunately Cobs is a little smart so soon cottoned onto some of the movements so tried to do them in the tests. Brat!
Our first test was 2.3 which was the harder of the two tests we had to do. Not a great test! He was really spooky and didn't listen throughout most of the test. When he was listening he got really good marks so that is encouraging.
Our second test was 2.1 & he was much more settled thank god! Still had a few spooks but no-where near as bad as the first one. He kind of gave up in it though and a few movements that we normally get really good marks in we didn't which irritated me. But I couldn't get after him like I normally would as he was in a rather explosive mood so who knows what would have happened!
We ended up placing 1st & 1st= in the tests - however the number of people in them was three & two so the placings don't really count!
I was happy with him for our first dressage outing in a few months. Was great to be out there doing it again. Liz stayed behind to watch the tests so now we all know what we have to work on next lesson!!
Warming Up:
Tests:
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He's looking great!!
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