Well today was a bit of an emotional roller-coaster, let me explain… I took Dustry to Sparsholt for his first competitive outing since last October, I had entered him into 2x affiliated (open section) BD prelim tests, and was hopeful that he would perform ok given that I have been working hard over the winter, at home, and with my instructor Amanda Brewer, but also conscious that he hadn’t been out for a while so could be excitable. The warm up seemed to get very crowded, very quickly (15 horses in a 30×60) and when I asked for a canter…
