As we mentioned a few days ago, Misty went to her third horse show and second dressage show on November 9th at Donida Farms. Here are her results along with some of the judge’s comments on each test:

Intro C — 5th place with 64.75%
“Fun horse. Correctly ridden. Continue to develop balance in and out of canter”

Training 1 — 5th place with 60.208%
“Very capable pair. Work to get horse to relax over back. Slow down in the trot, it’s too hurried”

Lisa’s comments about her performance:

Misty was a superstar — a bit hard to handle on the ground at times with all the activity but she didn’t get away from me (my worst fear!) and once I was on her back she was actually quite attentive and well behaved. I was in heaven with the lovely footing and huge arenas. One dicey moment before going into our first class where she decided to head back toward the barn and took some tactful “convincing” to instead stay and wait for her turn to go into the spooky indoor. But, in each test, she didn’t spook at a single thing — didn’t care about judges stand, flowers, other horses, etc. She probably would have scored better if I had ridden better, I was fairly nervous and didn’t have a trainer there to help me warm up etc, plus at home we can’t work on canter very much because of our somewhat wet arena so in the training level test with some longer canter it was a struggle to keep her going — she was like “what?!! I’m still cantering???” Overall a success, thanks for encouraging us to go we had a great time and I think it is a very positive step for her development.

Also, fyi, she loaded and hauled great, ate her food and drank her water, but had some diarrhea there maybe due to stress.