Lgd
17th Sep 2002, 12:58 PM
Had a useful trip down to Fry's dressage on Saturday. Tavia was quite inattentive in her first class and then settled to finish 5th in the Elementary freestyle with me. She did a nice test for Claire in the Elementary qualifier, although she was out of the top placings.
Peri showed a big improvement on her first outing since she put her back out. She finished a frustrating 3rd in the Medium Freestyle with just under 66% (top two qualify for the finals) and was only beaten by 1 mark :( We were 3rd in the Medium qualifier but marks were not so good (57%), felt she did a better test than shown by the marks. Went quite well in the Advanced Medium finishing 2nd with 60%, although we both made a couple of annoying little mistakes that cost a few marks and probably first place. What really pleased me is that it was the same test and the same judge as we had at the Festival and there was a big improvement in the marks. She aso commented that she looked much looser and more relaxed when I spoke to her afterwards.
Next outing is New Moors on the 29th, which will be our first Advanced class since June, fingers crossed !
Peri showed a big improvement on her first outing since she put her back out. She finished a frustrating 3rd in the Medium Freestyle with just under 66% (top two qualify for the finals) and was only beaten by 1 mark :( We were 3rd in the Medium qualifier but marks were not so good (57%), felt she did a better test than shown by the marks. Went quite well in the Advanced Medium finishing 2nd with 60%, although we both made a couple of annoying little mistakes that cost a few marks and probably first place. What really pleased me is that it was the same test and the same judge as we had at the Festival and there was a big improvement in the marks. She aso commented that she looked much looser and more relaxed when I spoke to her afterwards.
Next outing is New Moors on the 29th, which will be our first Advanced class since June, fingers crossed !