So, Frankie got two days off. He hasn’t had that in a while. But, my shoulder needed a rest from Saturday.

Frankie was a little irritated at my timing. Dinner was going to be served as we walked up to the ring. Inside today, even though the weather was beautiful. Why? Because we had to practice the stupid dressage test.

10 minute warm-up and let the test begin….

Frankie doesn’t do well with two days off, so our first two or three runs sucked.

I don’t know where the letters are, besides X and A. Who cares, I have the pattern down and so does Frankie.

So, to confuse both of us; I entered A at the opposite side of the ring than we had been practicing. After two runs Frankie had it memorized with that entrance as well.

We did the test about three thousand times, or for about 50 minutes. The last two were pretty good. Were they great? No. Never having done a dressage test and only ever seeing upper level dressage tests I can’t even say we will have a “qualifying” score. But, as long as my brain doesn’t go blank and Frankie doesn’t have super ADD we should at least have the pattern down.

One more day of test practice on Thursday.

Frankie says “dressage sucks”