Now that I'm back having lessons on Legacy every other week I think it's time that I give myself some goals to complete by the end of the summer.

The first big thing I'd like to do at the end of summer or possibly half way through and then again at the end to see if there's any improvement would be online dressage. I've seen that there's a few websites that offer this with a range of classes. I would love to enter Legacy into some of the ex racehorse classes I've seen. The classes that I would choose would only probably include walk and trot as we've still got quite a bit to work on with canter, but you never know there's still quite a bit of time until the end of summer. 

One of the best things about this is that I will be able to still compete with Legacy while not having to leave the yard. I find this is one of the hardest things for me to do at the moment, as Legacy won't travel on her own and Cloudy won't travel unless he's in a 7.5 ton horsebox and it's hard to find one of them around here to hire. Although my main aim with Legacy isn't to be out competing it would be nice to be able to do something small on her every once in awhile. 

Another aim I have to do by the end of the summer is to be back riding Cloudy, this is also another big one for me as I hate knowing that a fall has got the better of me with losing my confidence with him. I'm really hoping that with getting my confidence a lot better while on Legacy I will be able to transfer it over onto him and he won't feel any tension from me. I'm hoping that when I get back on him it will be like the fall never happened, okay I will be wary with him but I'm hoping that if he starts to play up with me that I will be able to sort him out and then he'll know that he'll get told off and made to work harder when he starts to play up and won't get away with it any more. Who know's I might start doing online dressage competitions on him too. 

I'm only setting myself 2 goals to achieve by the end of the summer because they are both pretty big ones. All my efforts will be put into achieving these and once these are done I will be able to set myself some more. 

Our First Dressage Test...

Back in the beginning of the month, myself and Legacy competed in our first dressage competition together and her first overall. As she's been going through retraining over the spring and summer it was her first 'test' as to either she'd calmed down in the arena, around other horses and would listen to me in a different situation. Even days before the show we had times where she was feeling good in herself when she entered the arena and the only thing I could get out of her was a fast canter around the arena when she felt like it. 

So when it came to warm up time on the day and she had to share the arena with a youngster to again had never seen this different setting and had only been in an arena a handful of times I thought I was doomed, holding on for dear life was my only thought. But to much surprise she behaved impeccably from start to finish. Now she isn't even one to stand still while grooming her, it has to be done while she's having her food or eating her hay and depending on the type of hay this isn't enough. She's trying to walk off and see what's happening, many of times I've had to tack her up in circles. This day she stood to be plaited up all her mane and her tale, have a good groom and then be tacked up. (I've must've made a good choice with the hay haha.) 

She was well behaved throughout the test if anything she needed a little more energy throughout it. 

Below I have added in the test score sheet including comments from the judge.