18/08/2025
Not quite the day we had planned for Firestick yesterday in the Novice Silver Area Festival.
He definitely enjoyed the atmosphere, a little too much at times. It was possibly the most confident dressage test he's done, which unfortunately didn't play to our advantage! The good bits were great, and consistently scored 7s across all 3 judges. However, the added flying changes in the counter canter work gained us 1s and 2s from all 3 judges! This paired with my mind blank where I forgot a medium trot cost us greatly. Overall between the pair of us we easily chucked away around 35-40 marks which in his overall scores would have been costly, so i decided to call it an day before the end of the test and chalk this one down to experience. We all have bad days and I take responsibility for my part of not remembering the test! I don't think he will be taking responsibility for his added flying changes as in all fairness to him, they were exceptional and very clean..... he clearly thinks he should be doing Advanced medium now 🤣
Roll on the ROR championships this week!