Heck, we decided…let’s go for Third Level! Quite a few Dover Medals, which was very exciting. Extra adrenaline? He earned a 69 percent his first weekend at With those talented horses and riders, but I think Pre enjoys the showĮnvironment. Once again, we had no idea if we belonged in that arena Pre spooked when receiving his neck ribbon at the GAIG/USDF Regional Dressage Championships. Fortunately, he got away cleanly so they couldn’t take our award back! Somehow, that big spotted hunk, with the hugest heart, took reserve champion! In true Pre fashion, when they presented us with the neck ribbon, he spooked. That year we qualified for the Great American Insurance Group/ USDF Regional Dressage Championships. We worked as much as we could over the winter, and felt we could try our hand at First Level. Other’s barns to help out, share relevant videos, and download over cocktailsĪfter clinics or lessons. We warm each other up at shows, go to each Ground.” We don’t have the big barn budgets or resources, so the help we giveĮach other, be it advice, observation, or just plain support, is critical. Of other adult amateurs who support each other with what we call “Eyes On The Notch clinicians and excellent trainers, but these are occasional luxuries, not She and I have been lucky enough to get help from top Partner in crime, Amy, who keeps her horse at PreView and is the reason weĬontinue to improve. In Colorado is wonderful, but poses training challenges: no indoor, no program, So we bought a little horse property, and named it PreViewįarm, so we could have him in our backyard. Husband says it’s because he’ll do anything for me… but the truth is, I’ll doĪnything for him. HeĬomes running like a puppy when I call him from a hundred yards away. He even packs around my beginner husband. School-grade C, which seemed fair for our first go.ĭressage work were bareback hacks, trail rides, and jumping sessions. We would only get occasional lessons, and go to shows with friends that wereĪlso beginners, I had no idea what scores meant. We rode Training Level and scored a 70 percent. My trainers once said that she thought he was an adrenaline junkie and he likedįirst little schooling show. Saddle or on the ground, he’ll find horse-eating obstacles everywhere. His own winter blanket can make him snort, stiffen, and He gets his confidence from me a responsibility that Ever since that first time on his back, I’ve felt like he is my Avatar… moving his massive body seems as easy as moving my own. We started with a year of ground work – not lunging or long-lining, but sending him over obstacles, taking hikes with him, and teaching him to move, off pressure, like a gentleman. I hadn’t ridden since I was a child, and Pre was unhandled – pulled out of a pasture in Ohio and about to turn two. You know that old saying “Green on Green equals Black and Blue?” When we started out, we both knew next to nothing. Since I had no idea what dressage (or Third Level) wasĪt the time, that sounded like a great goal! Riding teacher who found Pre for me because she thought he was special and that Mountains of Boulder, CO, bareback in a hackamore. My last time in a saddle was as a child, up in the Picture an old sturdy work truck, surrounded by a bunch of Teslas. You see, Pre is a 17.2h, 10-year-old tobianoįriesian x Saddlebred (Georgian Grande), and I think the ground vibrates when Horses regularly spook and scatter from us in the warm-up arena. Have those classic bloodlines we all covet, nor does he look or move like them. Pre’s not your typical warmblood, as he doesn’t I’m an Adult Amateur aboard Flying W Farm’s Prince It’s Throwback Thursday! Enjoy this article from the YourDressage Archives, which was originally published in the March 2018 issue of the flipbook version of YourDressage – the precursor to today’s current website!
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