Yesterday I had the most lovely show day without even sitting on a horse! 😅🐴
I was off being a corporate girl with work in the UK most of this last week so I opted out of competing on Saturday as I’d be too rusty.
Sometimes being on cheer squad / warm up / test calling / water fetching / video duty is lovely as it gives you time to chat to everyone, to see your friends ride, to watch a bit and learn a bit without the pressure of competing.
Emma was competing with Big Bird and got her first novice qualifying score of the season . Aoife and her horse Ri smashed it in the prelim winning both classes 🙌🏻🥇
Josephine got the day started with a demo of how to ride a 66%+ Grand Prix 👌🥇
Barbara and Scout are my #cobscan inspiration and I loved seeing them getting a brilliant score in the adv medium 👏
I hadn’t seen Rowena in way too long and her new horse is divine 😍🐴
Christa and 👑 Queen Ping were awesome in their adv medium tests.
Georgia and Jupiter cruised through the elementary 👌
Lastly but so not least Lynn went out for the first time in two years and competed on her own young horse 🍊 🐴 most people don’t realise Lynn learned to ride as an adult and she’s bloody amazing. I remember her doing her first ever dressage test on her horse Joe (who was not by nature a dressage horse 🤣) and the transformation from riding club all rounder to dressage diva is fully complete 💎 ✨ I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a big cheer squad around an arena wishing someone well!
I caught up with one of my besties Louise OBrien Photography for the chats 📸 and had some shopping at DSE Equestrian Outfitters where Emma did more damage than me for once!
We had made a girls weekend of it with a sleepover for BB and a gorgeous dinner at The Brass Fox 🥘 🍦 on Friday.
Thanks Eastern region for a fab show!
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