We had a wonderful weekend at Kiuruvesi Equine Collage at combine driving regional training camp! We participated with pair Ivanhoe av Friheten and Swinghill's Paulette.
At Saturday we drove a dressage training which went quite well and in the evening a second training with cones, both drives was in a manege. It was the first time I drove cones in pair so after one slow round I managed to drive 40 seconds faster the second round, still maybe not fast enough but it will do. In Finland in regional level one is not allowed to gallop so that is a bit of a problem in my pair. Ivanhoe who has been a trotting race pony in Sweden before he came to us is a very good trotter of course and Paulette has sometimes problems to hang along in trot. As she is not as experienced nor trained yet otherwise either she easily starts to gallop, that won't be a problem when we start driving national level :D :D :D if we ever will... We forgot the camera!!! Can you imagine! Thank God for smartphones with a camera...
Waiting for the cones training to start with a Shetland pony Qulla. Ivanhoe on the left in pair and Paulette on the right (looked from the viewer, not driver)
Driving dressage on Sunday
On Sunday it was time to drive dressage again, this time we drove on outside arena, which was very heavy for the ponies. We drove the dressage program which will be the program on next weekends competition. Could have driven better but as we had so long very icy roads and snowy fields I have not been able to drive dressage much, it is understandable. Anyway next week we start in a novice class so we'll take it calmly anyway to get a good start with the pair.
At the camp three other Shetland drivers pariticipated, all drive single. It was nice to meet all and get inspired by others who share the same passion - and of course it was very interesting to see all the drivers with horses too! That is not affordable for me now but maybe we drive some other combination later in life, who knows!
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