Our first lesson: We had our first lesson, which didn't go very well. Vi was very unsettled and not listening and i had been letting her do as she pleases leading up to it, so yeah not a good first impression.
I did learn a lot and hoping to have some more lessons in future.
Our first show - Levin: We headed to our first outing in Levin to do some SH and working hunter classes.
We ended up with a fourth in the lady's hunter class which i was proud of Vi for. She also carried me around SH nicely and up to 90cm which has been about my limit previously.
All in all a nice first outing for us.
Our second outing was a Dressage day at Onslow PC. We did a 2 tests, a 1.6 and a novice 2.4.
Our first test didn't go very well Vi was spooking at the scary white chairs next to the arena and gawking at the horse on the hill lol, as far as she was concerned everything else was more interesting than me.
For the second test i borrowed some spurs off Kerri and found Vi was a bit more responsive and by that time also well warmed up and listening well. She gave me a beautiful ride and tried so hard. We got a very nice score of 62.3% and a second place ribbon!
Yesterday we did our first ODE at Pre training level. After dressage we were in second place. We did a clear SJ round with a very untidy rider and took a few very tight turns and managed to come out in first place. Already in the lead gave me heaps of motivation to do a fast clear XC. So feeling as brave as i was we hooned everywhere, gave some jumps a few funny angles and made it over them all clear to come home in first place overall and with a pretty red rosette.
