February 19-22 at the Mid-Winter Dressage Fair in California was our first qualifier for the Junior team. This weekend actually held a lot of firsts for me and Chance. It was our first time showing in California, his first time showing in an Equidome, and his first time showing at the Junior level. He was still a little green going into the competition so I was hoping we would be able to pull it together in the ring. On the warm-up day Chance was good but a little lazy and ended up getting a 62.8%. The next day was the first day of the qualifying tests. He spooked on the entrance and was a little looky but the rest of the test was better than the day before and we got a 61.5%. Saturday was our last day of competition and I really wanted to do well. He went in there and tried his best. He did awesome for just learning some of this stuff and our score was a 63.4%. That meant our average was about a 62.45%, a qualifying average, for our first show! I'm looking forward to making improvements and seeing how we do the next show.