High Profiles and a first outing....

Bury Farm High Profile show ran in December 2015.... Affiinity Bay was entered for three classes, the Advanced Medium, PSG and PSG Freestyle.
It was lovely to catch up with all the familiar faces that compete at the High Profiles.
Affinity Bay did well, he came third in the Advanced Medium, Third in the PSG on 66% and fourth in the PSG music.
I was especially pleased with his PSG performance as he scored highly for his half pass in trot and canter and his pirouettes have really come on. Unfortunately we made a costly mistake in the tempis.
Finn has now qualified for the Regionals at Advanced medium, Advanced Medium music and PSG music- We look forward to our last regionals under the Open/restricted BD rule system in February!

Todd, a green young horse I have been riding for Jonathan Chapman went out to his first ever party the first week of January!
He was brilliantly behaved! He coped with the warm up very well considering how busy it was and didn't spook at a thing.
We had two tests, the first was in the furthest arena at Addington down by the road where all the lorrys trundle in and the second was in the International Indoor arena. By the second test Todd was exhausted- but kept trying. He scored 68% for his first ever test. We had some lovely comments from the judges and one called him a 'cracking' young horse... haven't had that comment before!
Todd was pleased with himself and slept very well that night!

Addington High Profile Show

Addington High Profile show is the first big competition of the season. The classes were absolutely huge!
I was riding Merri and Finn in the Prix St George and the PSG Freestyle.

Merri warmed up well and stayed relaxed in the trot work throughout her test. She scored 7's and 7.5's for most of her trot work, shoulder in, 8m circles and half pass. The canter was also good scoring a 7.5 for her four time changes unfortunately we had a costly mistake in the three time changes. We also had a blip in the left pirouette but over all I was really pleased with Merri's performance. She scored 66.27% which was a top ten placing and won the Silver Section!
It was not Finn's day unfortunately....after warming up well we think he got his tongue over the bit in the test so I had to retire as he was clearly not happy. Retirement in a dressage test was also a first for me!

The PSG freestyle had many withdrawn as the snow hit on Saturday evening. Luckily we had late times so the majority  had melted by the time we left for Addington.

Merri was first to go... The trot worked minus  a small blip but overall it was very expressive. Her canter was good but unfortunately we had a mistake  in the 4 time changes which was costly and we didn't have a spare line to redo them as we were slightly behind the music. 

Finn was a lot more relaxed performing to music although he had two explosive moments in the medium canter and trot!  His music was very loud as I asked them to turn it right up as Merri's was far to quiet... but this meant it was a little distorted.

Overall I'm very pleased with both horses and now back to training to work on getting the marks even higher. 

Thank you Addington for running a super show!