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# Guest Blog post # 64: "(You can't make this stuff up)  Officer, I tried to raise her right!" by Bill Woods
- URL: https://www.myvirtualeventingcoach.com/guest-blog-64-bill-woods-dressage/
- Published: 2015-11-06T02:01:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-06T02:01:59.000Z
- Author: Administrator
- Tags: Blog, #Import 2026-01-20 00:55

**(You can't make this stuff up) Officer, I tried to raise her right!**  
  
  
After having seen weekend scores on Foxvillage of the show where my student was on her own competing, I noted that she had put up three good First Level scores earlier. . .   
  
Me: What happened in your last test on Sunday? I saw you got eliminated. Did he run off and jump out of the ring?   
  
Her: No, I jumped him out.   
  
Me: (incredulously) You what?   
  
Her: I was having such a bad test, I didn't want to finish it.   
  
Me: So you . . .   
  
Her: . . . pointed him at the boards at the end of the long side and asked him to hop out.   
  
Me: Why didn't you just excuse yourself?   
  
Her: I thought maybe they'd tell me not to be a sissy and to just finish it.   
  
Me: You could've said you thought he was lame. Then they have to let you leave. Besides you don't want to teach him he can jump out!   
  
Her: Oh, that's not a problem. He already knows how to jump out. After he did it, though, I probably shouldn't have patted him. I hope the judge didn't see that . . .   
  
Me:   
  
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