Ash Wood Riding Academy

Chapter 4. Pirouette.

This morning was a bit of an earlier wake up. I got dresses and made my way to the living room to see a package beside our door. I assumed Eric or Tracy must have slipped it under our door during the night. I pulled the package out and put it on our coffee table. I opened the orange envelope and pulled out the three white sheets and set them on the table. Each sheet had a name neatly printed on the top right corner. Glancing at every corner I found my name and pulled out my sheet.

The sheet read something like this,

1. A - Enter Collected Canter, X - Halt, Salute, Proceed Collected Trot.

2. C - Track Left, HXF - Medium Trot, over X, 6-7 Strides of Collected Trot

F - K Collected Trot.

3. K-X - Half Pass Right.

4. X - Circle Right 10m.

5. X-G - Shoulder In Right, C - Track Right.

6. MXK - Extended Trot, K-F - Collected Trot.

7. Transitions at M & K.

8. F-X - Half Pass Left.

9. X - Circle Left 10m.

10. X-G - Shoulder In Left, C - Turn Left.

11. S - Collected Walk, S - R - Half Circle 20m in Collected Walk.

12. R - S - Half Circle 20m in Extended Walk.

13. S - E Collected Walk, E - Half Pirouette Left, Proceed Collected Walk.

14. S - Half Pirouette Right, Proceed Collected Walk, S - E - Collected Walk.

15. E - Collected Canter Left Lead.

16. A - Down Centerline, D - E - Half Pass Left.

17. E - C - Counter Canter, C - Flying Change of Lead.

18. M - F - Medium Canter, F - A - Collected Canter.

19. A - Down Centerline, D - B - Half Pass Right.

20. B - C - Counter Canter, C - Flying Change of Lead.

21. C - Circle left 20m, 5-6 strides of very collected canter between quarter lines.

22. H - K - Extended Canter, K - A - Collected Canter.

23. Transitions at H & K.

24. A - Down Centerline, X - Halt, Salute.

25. Leave Arena at A in a walk on a long rein

It wasn't necessarily the shortest dressage course I've done before but it certainly wasn't the longest or hardest. I made my way down to the cafeteria sending Angel a quick text, since I didn't see her in the bed this morning. Angels text read, 'I'm in the cafe come down, I got u a surprise breaky.' I look down the cafeteria spotting Angel waving one hand and in the other a can of Nestea. I quickly at down on the cushioned chair and handed her the dressage test paper.

Looking at the paper surprised, Angel finally managed to pick her jaw up off the table. "Wow, I thought the test was going to be harder than this. I mean look at it. It isn't the easiest but it's far from the hardest."

"That's exactly what I said," I replied shockingly. "I'm so happy they don't do hunters in here because it's so annoying."

Angel nodding in a agreement handed me a tray , with a can of Nestea, a plate with a pancake, and some maple syrup packets at the side. We ate our pancakes within seconds of putting all the maple syrup required. Angel had a pancake with maple syrup, but I on the other hand had maple syrup with a pancake, considering the amount of maple syrup on my plate.