Today was quite the day at Galway Downs with dressage and show jumping in full swing. I started off my day by hacking Ping out and watching Livingston show jump with his new rider doing her first preliminary. I would be pretty pumped if I was her!
After my warm-up hack I jumped on the Ian Stark course walk, which was wonderful and very informative. He also gave me some new insight to some of the cross-country efforts and how to ride them.
Next I sat and watched about seven episodes of “Entourage” in an attempt to chill out and be mellow for my dressage, which must have worked because Ping got a 46 with the help of my good friend and coach for the weekend Nick Cwick helping me in the warm up.
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I’m thrilled with Pinger and look forward to tomorrow. My teammate on my Calcutta team Alli Slusher was awesome in the three-star and is sitting fourth as well. It looks like Nina Gardner has made a good investment at least in the dressage phase of this competition!
I ended the day with a course walk with former coach Hawley Bennett-Awad, who knows my horse and myself quite well so a big thanks to her for that. Well tomorrow is a big day. I’m going to get some sleep!
