No ribbons today;-(( Sara was first up and had her best 1st level ride ever. It was wonderful! It was only the fourth time she had ridden 1st level test 3, it was really good! She placed 18th in the class of 38!!! Kaluah went about 4 hours later. She warmed up wonderfully. When she got in the arena she got worried so she was a bit tight and whinnied a couple times before her test started and when she was done. She still did a great job and placed in the class right behind Sara in 19th place.
Safarr didn’t ride till 5:00. He warmed up really pretty nicely. He did great in his trot work but when he got to the walk he decided the walk should be more like a stroll. unfortunately he had to do walk pirouettes… He didn’t do the best one the first directions but he redeemed himself on the second one and got a 7 from one judge and a 6 from the other. When it was time to canter I didn’t collect him soon enough for the walk-canter transition so it affected the whole rest of the test. He did get a 6 on his first canter pirouette! I know PSG is a stretch and we’re still working on figuring it out but if I don’t ride it I won’t learn it and I’ve NEVER been one to ride one or two levels above what I show at. I just don’t have the patience to wait 
Needless to say, we didn’t place ;-(
Tomorrow Ra goes at 8:07 and Kizzes follows in the same class at 9:12 or so, they’re doing 2nd level. Safarr is doing 4th level around 1:46. Maybe tomorrow we’ll get a ribbon? Wish us luck! You can do all the training and have your horse really ready and yet there’s lots of luck involved with having all the pieces come together for that one ride.
