“After Bracks’ (Headmore Boadicia) rather over exuberant performances at Sparsholt the other week, we thought it would be a good idea if she went to another party before she has her first two regionals next week. So, we took her to Pacesham on Wednesday 20 to do an advanced medium music. Although she had already qualified, we thought it would be a good chance for her to practice her changes in a test again before she has to do them at the regionals.

Leisurely build up

The show wasn’t until the evening so it was a very leisurely build up! We were hoping that we would be able to stay dry as the weather had not been very kind in the lead up to the show. She warmed up fairly well despite the fact that the warm up arena was quite wet due to the large amount of rain we had had in the lead up to it, we were clean when we went out but by the time we got into the test both of us were splattered but water! It was quite minging!

Under control

I was pleased with her test; she was much more under control than at Sparsholt! There were still a couple of places where it could have been improved but she really tried and as she relaxed into it she just got better and better! We got all three changes on the serpentine and there were some really lovely moments! It was good enough to score 70.66% which was good enough to win, and it was also the highest score of all of the music classes!

All in all it was a good final outing before her elementary and medium regional finals next week, so fingers crossed for those!”