Oh hey! We are experiencing Biblical and historic flooding here in KY so now's a good time to catch up on blogging.
I need to wind up our Aiken trip which concluded with two days of showing at Stable View. We also did a little schooling show on that Wednesday as a warm up.
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| Schooling show - yes I wore my Tortured DQ Department t-shirt. |
Hampton was fantastic for all of it. He LOVES the 3rd/4th level work. The schooling show judge awarded us a 71% in our Fourth Freestyle. I literally have no notes except he was right there for me and happy to do so.
The weekend was the USDF rated show where we had a solid 4-1 ride, and then showed off our freestyle again to a really sweet 70%. This is the first 70% I have EVER earned in a rated show. I know it's a freestyle score but I am running with it. It also finished off my USDF Silver Freestyle bar!
On Sunday we cruised around 3-1 (I am hoping to add some scores to get my Bronze Medal of Distinction) and got a 69%+! Including my first NINE (!!!) which was for the reinback. Pays off to work on those non-brilliant movements.
I went back to USDF and looked up the last time I did 3-1 at a rated show. It was April 2016 and we earned a 61%. In May 2014 we showed 3-1 and scored a solid 53.8%.
That's some perspective!
I also was lucky enough to watch a little bit of a clinic with this legend:
weeee.
