Ottawa & Blainville Trip Will Soon Be On The Go

Tomorrow the trip will begin! The trip we've been looking forward to for a long time. We will first travel to New Brunswick and stay there Saturday night. From there, we will continue our trip Sunday morning to the nations capital, Ottawa. We will have a few days to adjust, relax, and settle in. Also, we will be doing some schooling with Sue the days prior to the show. The show will run from Thursday-Sunday and Whisca and I will riding in the FEI four year old classes and Training Level.

On Monday June 25 we will pack up again to travel to Blainville where the show will start on Wednesday till Saturday. We will be competing in the same classes as in Ottawa.

There is quite a group of people heading up this year from the Maritimes. It hopefully be a fun and good time for everyone! Plan is to travel back home on Sunday July 1 with a possible sleep over in New Brunswick Sunday nite so that we can hopefully arrive back home Monday July 2th. When we return home I will update you on our experiences! If you want to know how the Maritimers are doing you can probably check show results on the official show websites. Just click on links below I put in the Dressage PEI show results posts.

Great Show Results At Dressage PEI Show

It was a wonderful weekend at the Crapaud Agriplex this weekend. We left Friday afternoon to get the horses and ourself settled. I had a lesson with Sue Friday evening as well. Whiscalina was quite exited but our lesson went good. That same evening we also got our camp set up and got all of our stuff ready for show. It was my plan to stay in our new trailer; however, I ended up staying with the Tawil's on Wheels again. Maybe that was a good thing though because did it ever get cold Friday night!

Saturday was an excellent show day. I rode Whiscalina in First Level test I. She went good and got a score of 65% and placed second. Later in the afternoon I rode the FEI test for 4-year old horses and received a score of 6.8. It was the first time for Whiscalina this year in the show ring so she was a little tense but overal I was pleased with her effort and the tests that we did. Besides my Whiscalina, I also rode a Hanovarian mare that I have in training for a little while. It was her very first dressage show and she did extremely well. She won her very first test, Training I, with a score of 69%. Although, I was more pleased with the second test, Training II, she received a score of 67% but also placed first again.

Sunday morning came very early. In fact, I was in the show ring at 6 o'clock. First I rode the Hanovarian mare again in Training and received an excellent score of 73%. Second test was also nice and got 71%. She won both of her tests. I was very happy with those scores but as if that was not enough yet, Whiscalina also scored 72.89% in First Level Test II and won her class. Whisca was much more settled on Sunday and the Four year old test also went great with a score of 7.0! I was extremely happy with her on Sunday; she's always such a pleasure!
Breaking the 70's mark is always a goal; but to break it four times in one day was so exiting!

Next for Whiscalina and I is a two week trip to Ontario and Quebec. We will be showing at the Ottawa Summer Classic from June 21-24. Then, we will travel to Montreal to show in Blainville from June 27-30.












Pictures by Mark MacDonald