Well, after spending ALL YEAR showing dressage, you are probably expecting to hear how wonderful dressage went for me and Roanie at Running Start. I mean, after all, we did win horse of the year for dressage... Alas, we put up our absolute worst score yet. It went so poorly that the judge commented on how cute Roanies color was and the photographers walked away.... Ouch. I don't quite understand what happened that Saturday morning but Roan clearly did not show up to the same dressage ring that I did. She was 100% convinced that those test directives were mere suggestions and that she really could go wherever she wanted at whatever speed she wanted. Oh well, I put it behind me and went to walk my XC course a few times to avoid tying her to someone else's trailer and pretending she wasn't mine. Like I always say though, who goes to horse trials to do dressage? It's all about the cross country. And lemme tell ya, after XC, I wouldn't trade that mare for the world. Yet again, the only problem we had was making sure we didn't come in too fast. Instead of slowing her down I just took extra long lines between fences, it was good to get the extra galloping time in for our move up in 2015. In the end, we finished in the middle of the pack but had a phenomenal time jumping! 2015 here we come!! Hopefully with better dressage scores ;)
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