Do my riding clothes still fit?!?!?!?
So I have the first horse show of the season in two weeks. In many ways I am ready and more ways that I am not. I am ready for the season to kick off mainly so I can see all my show friends again. It is a very wonderful group of (mostly) women that pack up and haul off to these shows. Everyone is fun, supportive and enthusiastic. It's a good time. Oh and the best about this 1st show is Whimpy's. Whimpy's is an oyster bar. And the only thing they server is ice cold beer, oysters, shrimp, scallops and a few crackers. Nothing else. But it is the best food Eastern North Carolina can server up.
Now that leads me to one of the reasons I am not ready for the season to start. Eating and my show clothes. Last year I lost a lot of weight so I could wear the wedding dress of my dreams and marry my tall, dark, and handsom prince. Then, stupid me, had all my clothes taken in. Well after the wedding was over, I started putting it back on. Ooops. And now I am too afraid to go into the closet and try on my show jacket. Oh PLEASE let it fit. The good news is that it has some stretchy material in the wool. But will it be with in its limits of stretchiness when I put it on? Or am I going to max it out? Will I be able to breath or am I going to have to hold my breath the entire test?
I can see it now, enter at A in the collected trot... halt at X to solute. Proceed collected trot, at C turn right and smile at the judge because you know you are going to need to gain points when a button does fly off, hits the trash can beside the ring and scare the begeebies out of your horse and you make an unscheduled depart of the ring, arena and show grounds. After that I can only imagine the comments on my score card, "Nice entry, square halt, nice fluid movement, panic in riders eyes as approaching judge, and slightly pink in the face, extended trot starts off nicely until some object flies off and horse doesn't complete move and runs out of ring. DISQUALIFIED!"
So if you are a judge of dressage and you are planning on judging a show this spring, please be kind to the competitors. They probably have no circulation in their legs from the very stiff dress boots cutting off all blood flow, and the coat cutting off all oxygen to the brain.
Now that leads me to one of the reasons I am not ready for the season to start. Eating and my show clothes. Last year I lost a lot of weight so I could wear the wedding dress of my dreams and marry my tall, dark, and handsom prince. Then, stupid me, had all my clothes taken in. Well after the wedding was over, I started putting it back on. Ooops. And now I am too afraid to go into the closet and try on my show jacket. Oh PLEASE let it fit. The good news is that it has some stretchy material in the wool. But will it be with in its limits of stretchiness when I put it on? Or am I going to max it out? Will I be able to breath or am I going to have to hold my breath the entire test?
I can see it now, enter at A in the collected trot... halt at X to solute. Proceed collected trot, at C turn right and smile at the judge because you know you are going to need to gain points when a button does fly off, hits the trash can beside the ring and scare the begeebies out of your horse and you make an unscheduled depart of the ring, arena and show grounds. After that I can only imagine the comments on my score card, "Nice entry, square halt, nice fluid movement, panic in riders eyes as approaching judge, and slightly pink in the face, extended trot starts off nicely until some object flies off and horse doesn't complete move and runs out of ring. DISQUALIFIED!"
So if you are a judge of dressage and you are planning on judging a show this spring, please be kind to the competitors. They probably have no circulation in their legs from the very stiff dress boots cutting off all blood flow, and the coat cutting off all oxygen to the brain.
posted by Dressage Princess @ 1:23 PM
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