The sporting life

[glenatron]

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:

• 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

Comments

[ellie_equus]

Good luck! Look forward to hearing about it :)

[glenatron]

Thank you! After talking it up this far, my main hope is that it isn't too boring...

[gnapp]

I've stood at a competion, watching my competitors ride, wondering why they weren't told they were riding all wrong, and then realized who actually did have it all wrong. :-) Also, I've been told never to wear white gloves unless I really know what I'm doing with my hands; the hands get so much more visible in white, and despite what some people might think, white isn't required (here, at least).

I'm sure you'll do fine. And the advantage of dressage is, unless you're really having a bad day, nothing can really go horribly wrong. As long as you two enjoy yourselves, I Think you have won. (My goal, first time I took Igloo out, was to not jump the dressage fences. This was made easier by it being an indoor arena with three walls, and a fence only at one end. But still! :-)

[glenatron]

My first ever dressage test with Zorro, we were in a little arena in a village riding club field marked out by bits of white pipe around the outside.

Zorro attacked the pipe.

[puddleshark]

I used to write sometimes for Prelim dressage judges, and this is the sort of thing that made their day.

[glenatron]

As far as I can tell white or cream gloves are the rules here on account of British Dressage. Perhaps for exactly that reason.

[siberian_angel]

I don't think it'll be quite a fiasco. ;)
I was a competitive rider for years and I've also done some dressage, but my heart belonged to jumping and cross country...