This was one of the Novice patterns from our last show. Here's what pitfalls we found:
- Be ready to go at cone 2, walk briskly, but not so briskly your horse begins to trot.
- Stop beyond cone 2, with your horse's hip square with the judge
- Spin, making sure you don't over or under spin, those that did had a tendency to have a crooked line to the judge (it was VERY obvious)
- Turn on your charm, look up, look pleasant, you are approaching the person you want to impress!
- Set up for inspection, when this judge inspected, he stopped near the tail EVERY. TIME... he tripped up about 1/2 the first 2 classes...so be prepared for anything in inspection!
- After dismissal, those that stopped straight and had good setups, had straight backs, those that stopped with a hip kicked out or set up their horse crookedly, had crooked backs...
- 270, since we just backed, some horses picked up their pivot foot because THEIR exhibitors did not pull them slightly forward to keep their weight off of the incorrect spin foot (the correct foot is the horse's RIGHT HIND FOOT), complete your spin.
- Trot away briskly, w/o hesitation.
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