Nancy Szakacs' weekend at the California Dressage Society and Great American/USDF Region 7 Championships didn't start out quite the way she wanted, but it ended up better than she'd imagined, with two first level, adult amateur tricolors.

Szakacs didn't think Ruschkoi was performing at his best during the warm-up test on Thursday, though he managed to score a 66.71 percent to begin the show, held Oct. 5-8 in Burbank, Calif.