Here’s a quick summary of our showing progress for this year. We started the year with a show at Stolen Aces in Las Vegas showing our 2nd level freestyle. The first day Cazador was a little tense but the second day he was spot on. One freestyle score earned. It was great to visit with some old friends and restaurants. I do miss the food there.

We showed at all four of the Sage Creek shows. We finished getting our other 2nd level freestyle score and debuted our 3rd level technical. Which wasn’t too bad considering we hadn’t been working on flying changes very long together. We earned both of our 3rd level scores needed to complete our Bronze medal and the first of our 3rd level freestyle scores for the Bronze Freestyle Bar.

We also showed at both of the Millbrook Farms shows where we finished earning our Bronze Freestyle Bar! That was a bit harder as Caz started anticipating where he needed to do the flying changes. He’s such an overachiever. But mission accomplished.

We qualified to ride both 2nd level and 3rd level freestyles and 3rd level technical at the Region 5 Championships in Scottsdale. We are ranked 17th in the nation for 2nd level freestyles, 22nd for 3rd level freestyles and I’m real proud of Cazador as he is ranked #1 for both the 2nd and 3rd level freestyles for the International Andalusian and Lusitano Horse Association!! We are going to go the USEF Convention in November in Salt Lake City to accept our awards! Very Excited!!

We leave this week to show at the Region Championships in Scottsdale. Here’s to hoping that I will remember which test I am riding and that Caz will wait for me for his flying changes.