Saturday, August 02, 2008

um ... should I?

do a walk/trot test tomorrow?

i don't think so, but it's at the yard, so can't very well not! and can always just not trot and get null points for that!

Molly was struggling with the flexions this afternoon and we took a while to get a sensible walk.

i did try some trot, but it was choppy (partly my fault, i imagine).

i think i'm back to trying too hard, oopsy!

finished when we'd done a reasonably nice walk round the arena both ways...

then to gateshead flower show to pick partner up. didn't get there until nearly 4.30, it closed at 5.30, and they still charged me FULL PRICE to get in! I was NOT happy, as you can imagine, and have complained (in writing, we were all given a survey to fill in so i said it was poor value for money, and explained why!)

ended up at our favourite curry house for takeaway though, via Ikea.

Molly spend the afternoon in the stable, as all the mares were in so she had to be; had just been turned out again about 5 seconds before I arrived back!

3 comments:

Jean said...

Yes! Yes! Yes! Do the test. It's always good practice to ride a test no matter what happens.

When you ride a test, you focus on the movements and where you are going so you don't think so hard about how the horse is going. It's surprising how that can make it all go better.

Bummer about the flower show. They should have had a reduced rate for latecomers. *sigh*

cptrayes said...

YES!

C

Nicola said...

Well did you????????