Sparklez and I competed in our first CPEDI*** show at the Adequan Global Dressage Festival in Wellington, FL this past weekend. It was the biggest and most electrifying show ring I've been in yet. The weather was cold, windy, and rainy. The first day of warm up nothing was tied down so things were flapping in the fierce winds throughout the arena, people were working all around with men on ladders and people using staple guns. This continued through the week when on the second day of competition a truck pulled up at the top of the show ring and started slamming down large round tables down on the concrete in front of us. Through it all I couldn't be more proud of Sparklez. Though he would've