Out and about again

Saturday found us having a Big Adventure! Looked a bit like a spot of dressage but that wasn’t really the point.

Friday evening I picked up a hire horsebox from Atacanter in Radlett. This is the first time I’ve ever driven a vehicle of this size and I wasn’t sure how I would find it. Also Dino can be funny about travelling in small boxes so I wasn’t certain he’d agree to get into it.

The box:

Happily though after a bit of a sniff and a stamp he targetted right onto it, in the dark even!

Success at stage one! Saturday morning he hopped right on and we went off to Brook farm to do intro C and prelim 7. Wasn’t the best day’s dressage ever if I’m honest. I thought the intro was ok, but the score was very low – although that might just have been that judge. It was a small class though so we got a rosette anyway! The prelim was really not great as his canter has fallen apart again. But we proved that he will go into a box and that I can drive one which was mostly the point of the weekend!

Class 1. Intro C. Unaffiliated Dressage. Brook Farm training centre. Essex. UK. 28/10/2017. MANDATORY Credit Garry Bowden/Sportinpictures – NO UNAUTHORISED USE – 07837 394578

Class 3. Prelim 7. Unaffiliated Dressage. Brook Farm training centre. Essex. UK. 28/10/2017. MANDATORY Credit Garry Bowden/Sportinpictures – NO UNAUTHORISED USE – 07837 394578

4th in the intro!

So now we’ve proved we can do it I think it has to be back to basics for a bit. I need to sort my riding out. I rode him in the HM saddle yesterday and whilst I felt like I had more contact with him, I also felt like I couldn’t get him to move straight as I don’t think I’m sitting straight. So maybe so walk work without stirrups is called for!