When it's done right it sure is pretty!
I'm not a expert...but... I did see a few errors with the grey horse. By the way I think that mare is incredible! Let's see, on one of her piroetts (don't mind my spelling!) (piroetts are at the begining, where she looks like she's turning around in place)she didn't come straight out. The bend in one of her half passes was to straight (half pass is when the horse looks like they are going sideways instead of forward) Her free walk was tight. She missed her one tempys (look like the horse is skipping) I saw her anticipating the next movement, that's a no-no. Every movement has a score. The whole idea with a "Kur" is that the music matches the movement of the horse. I got to say the piaffe that mare does is fantastic! It is a incredible hard movement for the horse to do! You'll usually see maybe 6 or 8 strides, some forward stides in piaffe. The amount of piaffe that mare did is outstanding! It really wears the horse out. Fantastic!
Now the black horse... movements were perfectly in time with the music. He hit every movement. No errors. But in comparing the 2 horses I felt the black was "bland". But only because the grey did such a difficult routine, and with such heart! At 9 years old she has plenty of time to improve! My daughter rides one level down- pre st. george. The grey mare is riding at Grand Pre.
Tammie
