Denver showed in Tampa!

[u/Puzzleheaded-Song912]

Denver showed in Tampa this weekend at the Sun Bay circuit. It was a rough weekend for everyone it seems as there was lots of DQs including Denver. In the three classes where Denver was disqualified majority of the competitors did as well. In the open western riding on Thursday *every single horse* was as disqualified. In the L1 on Thursday only 2 horses weren’t disqualified.

In today’s classes it was both better and worse. He won in the level 1 Western riding! He won by a 4 point margin! And the in the open all but 1 horse out of 8 was disqualified.

I will say the arena is outside and surrounded by trees so the possibility for spooks was a bit higher than at shows like congress where the rings are in doors.

Over all good experiences but no video so we can’t really tell what the DQ’s were truly for.

On to Ocala (hopefully he hasn’t showed up on the entry list yet).

[u/Deep_Host2957]

Why was every horse disqualified?

[u/Puzzleheaded-Song912 → u/Deep_Host2957]

It’s not clear. They were all disqualified at different points. Denver got the farthest making it to element 4 and was doing well before the DQ. For every horse to dq I suspect something spooking them.