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Mary Warren had the weekend of her life at this year\u2019s Australian Dressage Championships. Successfully competing her eight year old Mindarah Park Raphael in the FEI Young Rider CDI-Y classes, she went on to pleasantly shock us all by winning the Saturday night Willinga Park Grand Prix CDI-W Freestyle with a score of 71% on her 13 year old stallion (and Raphael\u2019s Dad) Mindarah Park Ramadan. Because that wasn\u2019t enough pressure for the 18 year old, she also sat her HSC maths exam in-between tests!<\/strong><\/p>\n Last night!<\/em><\/p>\n (She laughs) \u201cThat was quite shocking! I was not expecting that. Ramie felt super but there\u2019s still lots of things we need to improve on. I was not expecting that score and definitely not that placing. But I\u2019m so happy with Ramie. He\u2019s getting better and better and we\u2019re communicating better and better. You can really feel, when you can communicate well with them, you can go anywhere, and that\u2019s what I\u2019m feeling with him.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s really come up a few gears since the Sydney CDI and he feels much easier to ride now. I can guide him a bit now and he just goes with me. I ride six days a week, four in the arena and two I do hill work or hack them out. It stops them from getting bored and keeps them happy. I feel they want to try for you more then.\u201d<\/p>\n The freestyle test last night, it was pretty technical\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cYes I design all my own freestyles and put them together myself. It takes me about a week to do it. With these two horses, they can do technically difficult stuff and most of the time we can pull it off. We pulled it off last night.\u201d<\/p>\n Mary with Mindarah Park Raphael<\/em><\/p>\n HSC, Nationals, I want to know how you\u2019re doing everything!<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cOn Friday I rode the CDI-Y Team Test and I literally had to jump off, hand the reins to Mum and a friend of ours drove me to a local school around here where I had to sit my HSC maths exam. Later that afternoon I had Ramie\u2019s Grand Prix test at 16:00.\u201d<\/p>\n How do you compartmentalise and focus?<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI worked all the times out carefully and I had so much help and support. I couldn\u2019t do it by myself. You just do it. I\u2019m not a stressy person and I like to challenge myself. I\u2019ve had this dream since I was six and doors just keep opening for me so I just keep powering through. Every morning I get up at 05:30\/06:00 and just do what needs to be done. You have to focus. But I enjoy it so it\u2019s great.\u201d<\/p>\n You\u2019re still training with Elliot Patterson?<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve been coming to the squad clinics and Elliot comes down every five to six weeks and I get lessons from him then. It gives me time to focus on things on my own at home in between and he can come and see the progress. It\u2019s hard when you\u2019re by yourself. I use mirrors but mainly I rely on my feel or if Mum\u2019s around l\u2019ll ask, \u2018Did that look alright?\u2019 Dad has a good eye too.\u201d<\/p>\n Mary with her family<\/em><\/p>\n What are your plans for next year?<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cMore training. I\u2019ve got quite a few horses at home that I\u2018ve got to sell. I want to expand my business and take in some more clients and just keep doing what I\u2019m doing. This is what I love to do.\u201d<\/p>\n Are you taking a holiday after all this and when the HSC is\u00a0over?<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWell I\u2019ve got Equitana in November. I\u2019m going to have a lesson with Lyndal (Oatley) and Patrik (Kittel) on this one (she\u2019s holding Raphael) and Patrik will ride Ramadan in the Grand Prix freestyle gala night.\u201d<\/p>\n How did you line that up?<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m sponsored by Custom Saddlery like they are and I sent Lyndal a Facebook message asking her advice about a particular saddle and she wrote back saying that she had been following me a bit and we started communicating. I sent her videos of both my boys, it went from there.\u201d<\/p>\n Each Rider of the Month receives a prize from IAHP. Contains B-group vitamins, magnesium and tryptophan for horses. These nutrients are necessary for general metabolism, normal appetite and growth, healthy skin and muscle, function of nervous system and formation of red blood cells.<\/p>\n![\"marywarrenmindarahparkramadan\"](\"http:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/MaryWarrenMindarahParkRamadan.jpg\")
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