Mette had a successful show the Dressage Affaire in Del Mar, March 13-15. She brought Emma Maclaren’s horse Royal Luck and he placed 3rd in Prix St. George and 5th in Intermediaire I. He performed well in both tests, but a small mistake in the I1 test led to some costly deductions. Taison had a good Prix St. Georges go, but he she feels he is still on his way up. Mette says that one day soon she expects to feel that she “owns” the test on him, but he is doing well for so early in the season. Mette is looking forward to the show at LAEC the weekend of the 28th, which will present a big challenge with 20-25 horses in each Prix St. Georges class. She is particularly looking forward to showing Basquewille in this show for the first time since the World Cup last April.
BIG NEWS!
Be sure to read Mette’s fabulous article on page 64 of the April issue of Practical Horseman. The article is entitled “Perfect Figures—A Key to Dressage Success,” and includes many great photos of Mette riding Royal Luck. Mette is also featured in a full page Heritage Gloves ad on page 59 of the same issue.
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Mette's March 2008 News update
My last show at LAEC during the first weekend in March, I call “wine and water.“ I think that Taison was the wine, although he has a lot to learn and do better, he pulled off a pretty good test. We had some eights for pirouettes and flying changes and then I had some other small bubbles, for miscommunications and all that, but for my first time out with him in this developing horses program and at Prix St. Georges level, I thought he did well.. He’s so new to it and he’s so big and he’s come such a long way, that I hope by the end of this year he will be pretty solid in this test and I hope he can still qualify to go to Kentucky in September. In the Developing Horse Qualifier, he scored almost 66% was third.
Emma Maclaren’s horse, Royal Luck, had a very good test in Prix St. Georges, but the score wasn’t that high. He got nailed for his walk and I lost one of the pirouettes because he had to go the bathroom and couldn’t do both at the same time. That cost me too much in points. He has a nice presence and he does a lot of good stuff in his tests, so I’m looking forward to the next show which will be in San Diego at Showpark the weekend of March 15. He did well in his Intermediare I test, he scored 64+% and was third place. It was almost the same in that test; I had a good ride and did a lot of good things, but one big bubble. That’s why I call this show wine and water.
The first show out for them was okay. It’s a long way until this year is over, so I hope to do well. The next big show is at Burbank, the last weekend of March. I’m going to bring Basquewille out in Grand Prix. I’m looking forward to that because he’s now been out of the show ring since April last year at the World Cup in Las Vegas. I’m not nervous, just excited that his foot now seems to be okay after that having to deal with that abscess for so long. So he is now entered in that big show at LAEC the last weekend in March.
Emma Maclaren’s horse, Royal Luck, had a very good test in Prix St. Georges, but the score wasn’t that high. He got nailed for his walk and I lost one of the pirouettes because he had to go the bathroom and couldn’t do both at the same time. That cost me too much in points. He has a nice presence and he does a lot of good stuff in his tests, so I’m looking forward to the next show which will be in San Diego at Showpark the weekend of March 15. He did well in his Intermediare I test, he scored 64+% and was third place. It was almost the same in that test; I had a good ride and did a lot of good things, but one big bubble. That’s why I call this show wine and water.
The first show out for them was okay. It’s a long way until this year is over, so I hope to do well. The next big show is at Burbank, the last weekend of March. I’m going to bring Basquewille out in Grand Prix. I’m looking forward to that because he’s now been out of the show ring since April last year at the World Cup in Las Vegas. I’m not nervous, just excited that his foot now seems to be okay after that having to deal with that abscess for so long. So he is now entered in that big show at LAEC the last weekend in March.
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