I think we can all be guilty of accepting our lot, doing the same old same old and therefore getting the same old same old!I have posted about going to a new instructor and I had a bit of a revelation in my last lesson, although we are going through the motions I wasn't really 'riding it' and Topaz certainly wasn't really 'giving it', this is what happens when its the blind leading the blind ;). We worked on opening up Topaz's range of movement within the paces and well blow me down, she felt AMAZING and it suddenly clicked what it was I'd been trying to achieve :).So with the words "what can we do to make it an 8" ringing in my ears, we went out for M61 and M73 on Sunday. I figured what have I got to lose (well the competition :lol:), but thought lets do this, and really rode for the engagement. I know if I get her in front of the leg it curbs the spooking, but what I'd not strung together was she can be forward and collected ;). First test, felt mega, it's a super easy medium and she is fairly established, but actually it was nice to find it easy and therefore ask more :). If she hadn?t squeezed a flying change in :mad: we would so have been seventy percent... I know it?s not about the score really, but omg so close and I?m really starting to believe that yes she IS a seventy percent horse :o. 69% and overall first.Unfortunately the tests were almost back to back and well the fatty hippo is not renown for her stamina :o, so not really enough time to get the energy back up between tests, so we were a bit tired :o. This did mean we scored another 9 for our collection, for our walk :eek::lol:. So a slightly less together but no flying changes test for 68% and first again :D.Image: https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net...c1&oe=5AE49F1F Image: https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net...58&oe=5B238F54 Clever Topaz, it's funny I've loved training her but it's only really now that I?m really starting to believe in us and stopped putting a limit on just what we can achieve!In other news Skylla is now beyond smug, all the work and years Topaz has put in and she gets the swanky new sponsered bridle from CK Equine :rolleyes3: :lol:, what she isn't banking on is the plan of work for her this season now ;).Image: https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net...57&oe=5B107AFD Thanks for reading!
02-06-2018, 04:00 PM
Dressage Never set yourself a limitation!
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