Longton Dressage 🐴☀️

On Saturday 15th April I did the longton Dressage with Cedric. As usual we did the intro & the prelim class and he was fab! The sun was shining when I arrived to the yard which made the early start a little easier!

When I began to warm Ced up he felt really flat and behind the leg so I spent a few minutes in a stretchy contact long and low just getting him really forward and swinging through, once he’d woken up I then began to pick him up and bring him together. He felt really good and I went into the first test feeling really positive. He did a really sweet test didn’t put a foot wrong but it just didn’t have that usual ‘oomph’ about it.  Never the less he scored 72% and we won!!

I put him away for 20 minutes and he had a little break before his next class. I knew he wouldn’t need much working in as he’d been really soft and supple before. I jumped back on had a quick play on either rein and then it was our turn. It was Prelim 2 which we’d done the month before so I knew the test well. He was really good, the canter transitions weren’t as neat as they should be but for a 5 year old I can’t complain! Big pats and off we went.

Once id put him away and tidied everything away I went to check my scores and was shocked to see we’d got 2nd with 66.% 😆 Only 1% behind the lead!!

Courtney