This message is from: Anita Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Many of you know our daughter Sam (Kerry). She rode two BasicWalk/Trot Dressage tests today with our white dun gelding Anvil's Rethel. The Kelowna Riding Club's Summer Dressage Competition is Sam's first time showing at a ridden Dressage show. She has been doing eventing and some combined driving over the last few years. It was Rethel's first time in a box stall, at a show and in a ridden dressage ring. To top it off they were the first go at 8:00 am this morning with her first test and received a 63.89 for first place. The second place was in the fifties. Her second test she got a 65 and again the second place horse was in the fifties. A lady watching came up after her test and said how nice it was and to work on her accuracy at the halt at X. This lady was coaching a several of her own students yet took the time to give Sam some encourgement and a point to grow on.
Tomorrow she rides six tests and hopefully will continue with Rethel as relaxed and round as he was today. Sam makes her living training horses and giving lessons and clinics. Rethel gets put to use in whatever capacity he is needed in around here, whether a lesson horse or for some friend or relative to ride up the mountain. We do not have a ridden dressage ring set up so when Sam couldn't take her TB mare to the show, rather than loose her entry fee she decided early in the week to take Rethel. She did all her dressage tune ups while riding fence, looking for horses or out in the driving dressage ring. If Sam keeps this ridden dressage up we will have to make her a 20x40 ring. It really is true that the kids never do really move out they just get more expensive tastes. Her own place is across the river but most of her horses and tack are still here. Rethel is for sale if anyone is interested in a trained gelding. Anita Unrau Anvil's Acres Rock Creek, B.C.
