03/10/2026
Petplan Area Festival roundup!
Sushi and I had a blast competing in the PSG Freestyle on Thursday evening. Our test was (mostly) beautiful, dancing to the wonderful music of Peter Pan arranged by Tom Hunt. Unfortunately, we also had a few calamities which seriously dropped our score. I went in with the goal of good half-passes and clean changes.. ✅ Our walk to canter transition, however…🤦♀️🤦♀️ which messed up our extended canter (it directly followed the duff transition). Our first canter pirouette stuck, so I rode the next one large whilst mentally working out if I had enough music left to re-do the first one- turns out I did, and after a handbrake turn onto the centreline we finished with our music.
These errors lowered our score to our worst one ever 🙄, but I still left the arena happy. We had fun, Sushi LOVED performing in a championship, and we enjoyed the whole experience. And at the end of it all, we still finished 4th!!
Sushi is a true performer, and the bigger the setting the more he loves it. Everyone in the barn he was stabled in at Arena UK called him The Character.. he even made one of the security guards fall in love him. It’s hard not to when he asks for fuss from all who walked past him!
A huge Thank You to Liz for being the 🌟 groom/helper/supporter, and Sushi’s wonderful owners Helen and Mike, and Judy Harvey for her training. What a journey we’re on!
