Gaining experience is the name of the game - between 600 dressage horses and a carriage competition

I should have worn a mileage tracker, it felt like I walked about 100 miles at the Kentucky Horse Park with Remy over the last five days. It was sensory overload for the kid: The space, the cold, rain and mud; golf carts whipping by from every direction; and the piece de resistance: Carriage horses and ponies practicing for their marathon at the water hazard next to the Rolex arena. I could feel it whirling in Remy’s head “Why are these horses chased by buggies??”

                                            A cold day at the KHP - Remy had to borrow JP's scarf

All in all, Remy handled it well. His first test netted him his highest score of the season: a 70.8%! Second day he had another good test, but the judge had a different opinion. We were still happy, though, because Remy did a good job. Unfortunately, his championship class was at the Rolex arena. Even though Remy held it together –entirely thanks to Judy!-, the test was marred by mistakes as Remy was just very tense. However, as we were mainly there for education purposes we felt that this goal was met.

As Judy said: Now Remy has lots of stories to tell his friends, especially about his “near death” experience with horses ‘chased’ by buggies.