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What a day!!!! Aren't horses great levellers...last weekend we were on cloud nine and today were booted back down to earth. Not through any fault of our own though. We headed to Myerscough College for the British Dressage Regional Finals at Open Novice. Florence has been going really well but today when we arrived at the warm up arena she had a mini meltdown because there were 13 horses in the warm up area, which is a relatively small space for 5 or 6 let alone 13!!! Anybody that knows Florence has probably seen how she can react when other horses get too close, so this was like her worst nightmare. It's just typical that the arena was so busy for our warm up, earlier in the day there had been 3 or 4 in at any one time and it was the same later on. But for some reason people thought it was expectable to use that arena to school in even if they weren't competing in that class. There were even people that weren't even competing at the show that decided they would bring their horse along for a school. And it's not like they were just having a little trot about, there were some clearly that compete at a much higher level that thought whilst a novice class was going on it would be a perfect time to practise their canter half passes, flying changes and passage!!!!! Poor Florence was beside herself and she wasn't the only one struggling with the atmosphere 🙈 I even went to ask the stewards if this was expectable and they just said they would ask the non competitors to leave if it got too dangerous. Surely their should be limits to how many people can be in the arena at any onetime. The arena did start to quieten down after about 20 minutes but she was still pretty nervous. To be fair when our time came to do our test she did go into the arena and settle quite nicely and did a sweet and accurate test but I just didn't feel we'd had a great warm up to get the best out of her. She came out with a 63.9% which was very disappointing and her worst score ever at a BD competition. Not a good day, it's such a shame because she's been doing so well up until now. #notahappyBonnie |
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