10/03/2026
We are very excited, as we did a thing!! Rosie's first indoor driving trials event!
To do this, you have to pass a special assessment
Rosie passed her carriage driving assessment!🎉🐴🤗 Well done little Rosie pony!
For your carriage driving assessment you have to show you are safe and competent before you can drive at a sports driving competition. This includes putting on and off the harness correctly, and driving safely, and also putting the carriage on and off safely. Rosie was very calm and relaxed even with the very big horses and carriages!
Indoor driving there are three phases (tests)
1. Precision and passes (similar to a ridden dressage test)and you have to learn which way to go and practice before your test, and remember the shapes that you make as you drive around the arena, this one I really liked as you can learn the test before!
2. Cones ( you have one go at going around a set of cones without knocking the balls off the tops of the cones,and it is tricky as learning which way to go around the course, we had some help as I am not very good at remembering which way to turn and I get muddled up 🙈)
3 Obstacles ( these are big gates that you go around,and can be very confusing! And you have to go through them in the right order ! You have two goes at this and your best time around the gates is the obstacle course , we had lots of lovely help so we didn't get lost! And everyone cheered Rosie on!
We had lots of lovely helpers and friends helping us around and learning all about it! It is great fun to do and is also brilliant if you have any disabilities as a very accessible sport 🤗
It is also really fun to watch too!
There are lots of indoor driving competitions around and the season is over winter time from October though to march, so we have plenty of time now to practice all the things we learned ready for this October!
Rosie had lots of treats and a big cuddle for working really hard! Well done Rosie pony!!! And a special prize for her first time having a go🤗
If anyone ever tells you that you can't do something... don't give up, it may take days, weeks or even years to achieve,but enjoying your own journey with things, keep practicing and never giving up ,you will 'get there' !!! And be super proud when you do! It's not always the fastest to do something that matters, consistency and enjoyment of what it is you are doing it so important and making wonderful friends along the way!