One of the things we have been enjoying lately are test riding training clinic combining a thirty minute lesson with a coach followed by fifteen minutes with a Dressage Ireland judge to ride through a test and recieve written feedback. Recently, Barbara and I qualified for the British Dressage area festivals and she and IContinueContinue reading “Prep & Perform – Dressage Test Training”
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When a dressage judge hits you in the feels!
Yesterday a dressage judge hit me in the feels. For once, not due to a bad score in what my friend Christa calls “the rectangle of judgement” 😂🐴 Nope instead because they saw through everything else and understood what my horse means to me. We were in a test riding clinic and did a warmContinueContinue reading “When a dressage judge hits you in the feels!”
Prayer To The Dressage Gods
Our Dressage Judges Who art in jeeps Hallowed be thy marks May my flatwork come And movements be done In the arena as they did in practice Give us this day an eight or ten And forgive us accidental half passes As we forgive those who give bad marks against us Lead us notContinueContinue reading “Prayer To The Dressage Gods”
Dressage Sheet Comments Deciphered
“Nice Entrance” – Don’t get cocky we are only one movement in “Wobbled on centre line” – horse wandered from A to C like a drunk trying to walk a straight line “Could show more inside bend” – Horse should be looking where it is going not gawking out of the arenaContinueContinue reading “Dressage Sheet Comments Deciphered”
Equestrian Reality 