“As Dream (Headmore Dream On) just missed out on completing her elementary qualification last week, we took her to Merrist Wood on Friday 3 June in the hope that we would get the last two points that she needed to finish it off. We had just got our lorry back from being re-sprayed on the Thursday, but thankfully Mum was driving so it was her fault if anything happened to it!

‘Dream felt amazing’

It was a beautiful day, if anything a little bit too hot, but we weren’t on until late afternoon so it was quite pleasant by the time we got to it. She warmed up well and felt amazing by the time we were ready to go in. She then did a lovely test in the elementary, by far the best she had ever done, and we were just hoping that the judge thought the same! Thankfully, she did and we scored a massive 75% to win and complete Dream’s elementary qualification so she is now all done and dusted for the summers.

A personal best

We then had a little break before we did our second test, which was an elementary to music, so we had a chance to cool down! I was hoping for a good score in this test as she had been so fab in the first test, but you never know what is going to happen with horses! It was the first music test we had done together and, once again, I was using my favourite Lion King music which we thought really suited Dream. She was amazing in the test and she really enjoyed going to music, she felt as though she had a smile on her face the whole way round! We scored a massive 84.38%, which is the highest score I have ever had! She has now also qualified for the elementary music regional for the winters as well, talk about getting organised!

I think the only word to describe Dream was mega, and I can’t wait to step her up to medium now!”