Yup, it was a dressage test.Hard is an interesting one, love those two shoes. Is it a dressage horse perhaps with exaggerated movements?
Difficult to get the top cut off point right when emphasising groundlevel.
Yes ... don't see many toad/frogs around here, don't know what they're like at keeping still for the camera.
I agree composition isn't quite right, exposure colour spot on, if the comp could run on a diagonal top left to bottom right maybe that would work