This weekend's show was GREAT!
Day 1 was dressage and it went completely fantastic and we placed 1st and scored a 22.5 (or 77.5% for the dressage people) which was my lowest score ever and the lowest score of the entire show which had to have had over 150 riders!
Day 2 was cross country. The course was simple and nothing that we haven't done so I wasn't too worried. The only thing I had to concentrate on was speed since at the last show I was working so much on keeping her quiet and letting the bit go that we were 1.06 seconds too slow. In the end she went double clear and we kept our standings with 1st!
Day 3 is stadium. When it comes to stadium I'm never worried about a stop but more about dropping a rail. For some reason Rori has a tendency to drop a rail at shows because she's either tired, too fast and clumsy, or I bring her into a jump wrong, but today was successful! She listened, I rode her well, and she jumped clear and clean and we finished 1st overall in the Novice Rider division.
I'm so happy with Rori, but more so I'm proud of myself for having a better attitude than I did at the last show. The first show down here was stressful for me because I had too high of expectations and couldn't let things that went wrong go. Instead of moving on and progressing I harped on the past and in turn, my rides later on in the show went downhill. The difference in my attitude changed that of my horse's, and in the end produced a better (and kick ass) result.
Next week we're moving up to Training which neither Rori nor myself have competed in but I'm excited to give it a shot and challenge myself and my horse a little bit more. I feel like if I can keep this attitude I can at least feel confident in all three phases next week and from there we can only move up!
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