Friday was dressage day...I rode at 4:30 in the afternoon, and it was pretty hot. I was wearing my top hat and fancy shadbelly jacket for dressage (attire that you can wear only at a CCI) for the first time; unfortunately, my hat decided not to cooperate. It kept falling off during warm-up, making for a very disjointed preparation for my test. So, my concentration was broken a little bit, and I made two errors in my test. Teco was not at his best, but he still scored well - however, 4 or 5 points had to be added to our score due to our error. Therefore, we were in 11th after dressage, when we would have been in 3rd, without my errors. Our final penalty score was 62.9.
I was kicking myself, but all I really needed was a clean cross country on Saturday. It was a tough course, but I rode hard, and we had a clean round! We had 3.2 time penalties, which I was fine with, because I wanted to ride a little slow in order to get a clean round. Which we did! He recovered well, proving that he was well-conditioned for the hilly cross country course.
Teco was very sound on Sunday morning for the jog, passing the vet's inspection easily. We were 7th going into showjumping that afternoon; we had one rail, but he was otherwise great, and he didn't seem very tired at all from the strenuous cross country the day before.
We ended up in 7th! I am so happy that Teco and I seem to be really getting it together. We are now qualified for the Young Riders team, so we'll see if we make it! We'll be doing one or two more events before the Young Riders camp this summer, so I'll be sure to update then.
Til then -
Christie
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