Yesterday Shina went to her first show where she competed - we came home with 5 ribbons! It was our first show of the season, The Hairy Horse Show which was an informal, low key fun day, was a lovely sunny hot day (too hot for me really). This was a huge buzz for me, as Shina has only been out 5 times in the last year, and was way too excited, wound up for me to ride during those first times out! She was really chilled out this time and she was very pleased with her ribbons! She also did some games for the first time - bending, barrel race and key hole, and she stayed calm and sensible.
We did 3 inhand classes and are few ridden flat classes. We got 1st in Nicest Walk inhand, for the ridden classes we got 1st in Best Combination and 2nd in Judges Choice (combination exhibiting the spirit of the day); I can't remember what the other 2nd and the 4th placing were for though. Shina also jumped her very first painted pole cross bar without spooking at it, just flew over it, was only small, lol, (she's never seen painted poles before, but the plain cross country jump she saw was very scary!).
We are going to a mini show at Labour Weekend (pleasure horse ring), so am looking forward to that now that we're getting ourselves sorted and more confident.
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