Thank you, it’ll be a cool one to look back on when we are further along for sure. 🥰

Thank you! And yes, this is my hope, I’ll look back and go “wow! Look where we started” 🤣❤️

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Haha oh dear! The weather certainly didn’t help 🤣😭

Thank you! Look forward to looking back next year and being like 'wow, look how far we've come!"

Absolutely agree - I think the judge was quite generous (as indeed they are at unaffiliated intro level). If we can just turn that lovely power into relaxation and thoroughness (for both of us!) we’ll be away! He tried so hard ❤️🥰 with a better rider he’d look even stronger, but he’s got me so we must aim for just progress !

Thank you Debbie! 🤍

Ah how lovely! I enjoyed that fair very much.

Oh no! 🤣 what are we like.

Thank you! Definitely has all the activity and potential as you say. I’ll learn to master it and help him use his body and we’ll be away ✨

Haha! Yeah I really shot myself in the foot with the warm up. I was used to Woody who needed 10/15 mins and then IN! Totally didn't think about the five year old brain needing to spend 10-15 mins purely adjusting to the number of new horses on the yard.

​@@RidingWithRhiI'm personally a 30 minutes minimum person no matter the horse. even if you just spend some of that time chilling and watching

@@NoThankUBeQuiet Woody needed 10-15 then straight into the test so you didn't lose the energy, so this one rather caught me by surprise! Harley is also not great at stopping and starting to so i was trying to go straight from warm up to arena, but it really needed 40 mins minimum

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Haha! Oh gosh those keys 🤣🤣 what a drama. And yes, our first frilly together! I have to admit, had a little cry on the drive to the yard even before I saw the feathers ❤️

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Oh 100%! I always am in two minds about whether to put these videos up because I’m very self critical and all I think is “why did you ride like that? Why were your hands /legs/shoulders doing X Y Z”. But, there is power in progress and I’m excited to set this out as our starting point.

I was SOOO annoyed I didn’t get to use the Equitex 🤣 and yes, it’ll come in time. We’ve almost cracked it in the schooling but a competition atmosphere just adds extra pressure. ❤️

Thank you so much! And you’ll have to let me know if you enjoy the dressage. Ps. The “rich/not so rich old ladies”… they’re my favourite followers 😉 all the wisest ones ✨

Thanks Katherine - one step at a time ❤

Thank you ❤️ he is very important to me, but I’d never want to do it alone. Having my coach’s professional support is absolutely essential in my opinion.

Thank you! I won’t have time to turn around a video like that for Black Friday, but I will say this about the Equitex (and full disclosure, I am now a brand ambassador for them): they are, to my knowledge, the only saddle pad brand to have conducted any research on the affect of their pad on pressure and that to me speaks for itself: thesaddlepadcompany.com/independent-pressure-testing/ It’s like you said yourself: sometimes (not always!) more expensive items hold up better or are better for the horse. Similarly, there are cheaper supplements you could use than the Audevard ones I use, but I choose them because they are a lab backed by studies and showcasing exact ingredients. There are cheaper coats than Toggis, but I believe Toggis are some of the best. It’s a balance as with anything, sone brands are good, some are not. I try to look for science and research to back my decisions and think of things as investments in preventing issues for me or my horse down the line. I hope that helps ❤️

Thank you! Give us a few months and we’ll be looking back at this like 😯 (I hope!)

@@RidingWithRhi Without a single doubt :)

Thanks Evie! Ok so “hollowing” is essentially when a horse comes “above” the contact, avoiding the bit/contact and not working correctly through the back. It is essentially the opposite of working in a correct outline where the horse is using their top line muscles and working on the bit. You can spot it in this videos mist obviously when Harley throws his head up / out.

@@RidingWithRhi ah I see now… thanks for the explanation 💜

You are not. But, we tried a different bit today and he was much happier!