Dream Day Dressage

Every so often something goes so right you think you must be dreaming and today did go right, or righter than we dared ever hope. In my wildest dreams I didn’t expect that pony-girl and Clyde would come Second in Prelim 4 and Third in Prelim 10, but that is exactly what they did, so our sweet, brave, talented pony came away with two rosettes – Blue and Yellow – in a proper competition, against real riders!
Now this wouldn’t be my blog without daunting disasters, consternating cock-ups and embarrassing faux pas, and, fear not, we had our share of those: our trooper Clyde kept his cool even when his bungling rider … but that’s a story for tomorrow. While pony-girl looks starry-eyed at rosettes she never dreamed she’d win, Braveheart sleeps on straw and dreams of carrots; and there we leave them till another day.