The sporting life
Tomorrow evening will be the first dressage competition for Team Iris. I'm pretty confident it will go well, given all the things we have in our favour:
Current forecast: Hilarious fiasco.
- I have had to borrow a bridle because I always take the nosebands off mine because they look silly with western gear and then I lose them.
- Turns out the bridle I have borrowed is actually black, with a brown noseband. Black bridle with a brown noseband and reins to go with a black saddle is a look, right?
- The saddle is old and treeless and well past its best but it at least falls within the rules, pretty much.
- I don't own a stock tie or white gloves, so we're about to go out to buy some.
- My black long boots are the cheapest possible rubber ones.
- Until Saturday I thought it was a different test, so I haven't had much time to memorise it. I think I've got a handle on it though.
- The only problem with my memorisation is that I keep ending up at the wrong end of the school by the end of the test and I can't quite work out why I am there. Other than that it's going fine.
- Our corners in canter aren't very good, but mostly we can now make a transition on the right rein without a buck.
Current forecast: Hilarious fiasco.