Mini Trial at South Farm

Zigzag and I went to the South Farm Mini Event this past Sunday and competed in the Training Horse Division for the first time since last year. He posted a fabulous dressage score of 28.5 and was absolutely wonderful. Even the judge made a comment that he looked very happy to be back in the competition arena! We were second after dressage and he did a great job jumping right around the stadium. His canter and balance is so much improved, (thanks to all the hard work this spring at Boyd's) and he felt like he skated right around. I made a few mistakes that cost us some time, but I was really happy that we jumped around with no major glitches. Cross country was fabulous and he was so strong that I actually had to circle before going to the bank! He was very honest and definitely having lots of fun on course!

While doing all three phases in one day is alot, he handled it well and still had some gallop left at the end of cross country. We ended up fourth (due to our handful of time penalties) and I was very happy that we had a great first outing. It was a great confidence boost, and gage to where we need to go next. With a little more tuning up we should be fit to run Training at Erie and Richland Park at the end of August, and then make our Preliminary debut. Thanks to my lil' sis for coming along and being our cheerleader/groom and official photographer! Fingers Crossed!