The Middleburg Horse Trials was a huge event. My junior rider division was big and our dressage score was better than I thought it felt. Wonderful double clear stadium and xcountry putting in the final position of 5th. Video below is from my win at the Virginia Horse Trials despite the crazy wrong leads and the random swapping of those leads during the stadium phase. Don’t know what was up with that.
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Finally, that 28 in dressage I have been working towards!! Put me in second, but I didn’t know it at the time….(I usually don’t look, just go forward with my next phase). Great jumping round and a really fun cross country. I did almost miss jump 8 at the bottom of a hill and after I galloped up I realized this and had to gallop back down, jump 8, gallop back up to 9 and then we were good. I had to move the speed up because that mistake cost me time and my event watch stopped working so I had no idea where I was time/speed wise. We galloped across the finish timer and I went straight to the start gate to see if I had time penalties. I DIDN”T:-)))) in fact I was 18 seconds under the optimum time. Way to go my best little thoroughbred. She knows how to gallop…lol . The 1st place dressage rider was eliminated in the stadium jumping phase. I won!! Leah
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