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Hello, everybody and welcome back to my podcast, Esme's Country Live. Today we have another midweek

mini pod or podlet and I'm going to be talking about my dressage test slash show slash competition

with my horse Joey where we had an added surprise.

But anyway, before we begin, I just want to say a huge thank you to the sponsor of the podcast,

Red Post. Red Post is an equestrian and country store based in the UK, but they also ship

all over the world. And I want to say a huge thank you to Red Post for dressing me and Joey

ready for our dressage test because it's been a little while since we've been consistently

back competing and they made sure that I was stocked up on purple shampoo, plating bands,

had a stock to wear with my show outfit and much, much more. So go and check them out at redpost equestrian.com.uk.

Anyway, let's get in to today's episode where I thought have a little catch-up of how I've been doing with Joey and our dressage.

So if you listen to an episode a few weeks back now, I think it was, yeah, back in March because I kind of

I've been doing, I've been trying to do consistently one show a month, which for me not too

bad. So I had my second show back the other day and one of the reasons why I didn't do as well

in my last competition is competition nerves. I don't know what it is.

I can, you know, speak on stage in front of thousands of people, you know, talk live on the radio,

talk live on live TV. That does not bother me. But the thought of going and trotting around

at a local show with some person in a car judging me. Oh my goodness. My

I just my system goes into fight or flight. I don't know what's going on. Anyway, so I was back and

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