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:P Kersplatt, whizz bang, floop.
That was a bit of a crappy dressage test.
I didn't place in either walk and trot or prelim. I sorely missed having my trusty Tess in the walk and Trot, and openly resented having her in the prelim, especially as she IGNORED my leg aid and stopped on the free walk!?
Nah, both horses were better than usual, I think I just rode a bit crap today. Hollie wasn't as bad as usual, there was only one point where I couldn't make her trot. Tessie was super fast and decided that instead of going down to C, she would instead go B to E, which was... interesting? But I got mostly 7s for the position, aids, suppleness etc scores at the end, so it was worth it.
Chance is fast becoming the Dressage Diva of the stables. He is brill because you don't need to constantly thump him to keep in canter, and he even topped Patsy and Phurtive!

I'm thinking of asking to ride harder horses from now on, as I'm nearly always on Tess, Ada or Sisi. It would be good to ride Rosie or even Nev from time to time, just so I don't get used to the under 15hh and proud category. Also, bigger horses are probably what I would ride when doing BHS Stage 1, which I want to do at the end of summer, hopefully. It's not very likely, being fairly tall, that they'll put me on a 14.2 stocky pony, is it? Then again, I do want to ride the ponies as much as I can before I grow out of them, so maybe I need to alternate. They are very good at jumping (well, most of them) and they are just too kawai!! <3