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Come True Farm 2011 BVDC Show Photos 
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On
June 12, 2011 under the auspices of our trainer, Suzy Stafford,
we attended our very first ADS show, the 17th Annual Brandywine
Carriage Driving Show at Fair Hill in Elkton, MD. Up until this
time
Sjaantje and I had only done breed shows, so we had the shock of our
lives. I will NEVER forget getting into my roadcart and not getting out
until 4 1/2 hours later! ADS competitors certainly are a hearty lot--at
my usual shows I would normally get in and out of my carriage within a
15 minute time period. By the end of that day, Suzy had taught Sjaantje
to stand quietly in the line-up after she danced around in her working
class. We competed in the Novice Division, and I certainly was a novice
when it came to the cones classes--getting DQed in one and nearly
trotting past a set of cones, earning us additional time when we
circled back
around in another. I certainly have a new-found admiration for drivers
who excel in cones and am personally putting much more effort into my
mastery of this discipline. Ever since I saw my first driven dressage test, which took my breath away at its elegance and was done by a Friesian gelding named Roelof, who later came to live in my barn for several years until Ann moved him to their new home in Southern Pines, I had it in my head that I would like to give it a try. Being in my 60s, I don't have the nerve I used to, so marathons intimidate me, and since CDEs are where driven dressage is offered, I didn't expect to have the opportunity to do a driven dressage test. It is wonderful that ADS events offer Super Reinsmanship classes, so my personal triump at this show was not only getting to drive in my first driven dressage test, but also winning it! In my driving world I am very enthusiastic about reinsmanship classes, even though as a rider I never got thrilled about equitation classes. Enjoy these show photos taken by the show
photographer, Hoof
Print Images Photography.
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