Sunday dawned sunny and hot with the temp at 85 degrees at 8am. Tsjesse was first on the docket at 8:15 (thankfully due to how hot it would be later)and was a bit tired after putting everything he had into the test on Sat, but did a good test finishing 3rd out of 15 in the final PSG of the weekend. This horse needs lots of carrots!!!! He was such a good boy and I was so proud and grateful to ride him for Marian and Michael Shaughnessy!
Tiffany was up next and put in a super confident, powerful stadium round on Cisco coming in within the time and leaving the rails in the cups. She did a great job training her horse this weekend, and while she may not have finished where she wanted, she learned alot about him, herself as a confident rider, and became a better horsewoman and rider than she already was. Great job! I then shot over to XC warmup with Jessica and Zophie, where Zophie told us she was super excited to finally run cross country! Jessica piloted her around the BN course with ease finishing in 3rd place! Congratulations!
Lastly, York and I had the Training Level Qualifier at 2pm. It was SO HOT! I think the heat got to him a bit and he put in a respectable test and got his qualifying score. The judges all seemed to really love this horse with only one of 6 scores being a 68.9 and the rest being in the 70's. I am very excited to see Angela ride this horse in competition and hopefully qualify for Regionals. I also need to give her a HUGE THANK YOU as the unsung hero this weekend, toughing it out with me in the blistering heat doing chores, bathing, grooming & tacking horses, and being such an immense pillar of support. It was so fun to have her there! She is one of my biggest supporters, and I can't thank her enough for everything she does behind the scenes!
As a side note on the whole 26 thing...
After I finished recounting the events of the PSG Saturday and recurring "26" in everything I have been doing lately to a friend of mine named Kristi, she said, "Well of course you won on Saturday, it was MAY 26th!"
Enough said. Lotto anyone?
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