A ribbon!

I'm not sure how much it meant as we were in a class with two even novicier people than me, but a win is a win. Unfortunately I undercounted my spin in the novice class else I would have placed in that too. The judge the next day was way mean for a novice rider class and dq'd me for not hesitating long enough after my back up. Ouch. She only placed one person in each class so who knows what the others did to annoy her.

Anyway, I won't make that mistake again and I know I need to work on my pivots - in warm up I ace them. I get in the pen and I tense up and so Tob tenses up and walks out. I need to ask more speed in the lope and I need to make both sets of circles smaller. Our changes were great and our stops not at all bad. The ground is not ideal so I don't push him hard there.

There isn't enough warm up space there so I can't lope circles before I go in so I'm pretty much always going to have a little bit of hyper on my hands at this venue.

It will do for now and overall I am thrilled with his improvement. The judge that placed us remembered us from last year and told me we were a lot improved. Yay us!