Little Everglades International CDE

I competed Bella & Ritza in Intermediate Horse Pairs at the Little Everglades International CDE in Dade City, FL this past weekend. We were 2nd after dressage out of 5 horse pairs and I felt like we had a good test. The marathon was beautiful driving around the ranch and the hazards were fun. We placed 2nd in most of the hazards, the girls did well but we didn't have as much bursts of speed as I would have liked.  On the walk section they calmed down so much that I couldn't get them to walk on and racked up a lot of walk penalties. That brought us down to 3rd place even though we had a awesome cones course and was actually 2nd in cones as well, but 3rd place over all is fine with me since the girls performed beautifully in all 3 phases. Amy Neary also showed her mare Reggie in Prelim Single Horse and had a amazing marathon with a 2nd place there and a good cones course to finish up in 4th place over all. John went with us and was my groom for dressage and cones and navigated for Amy. A very special thanks to Scotty for navigating for me! It was a really fun show and would recommend it to anyone to show or to come as a spectator.