Tinseltown

Well its hard to believe that 2013 started off as 2012 spent most of its days...enduring a deluge! The poor Tweseldown organisers and team had made an enormous effort with a fantastic new course around the old racecourse and the heavens did their very best to ruin it! I was extremely lucky to run all 7 of the horses I had entered. In general they were incredibly big for their boots between the white boards. Two notable Badminton entrants being the very worst of my gang!! That said 7 lovely XC clears and good efforts from them all in testing show jumping conditions almost made up for their poor performances in the first phase. The three boys who did try hard were rewarded with ribbons..Fran came 7th in the N on Lil, of mine Dippy came 2nd in the ON, Harry 7th in the N and Gangsta 8th in the OI. This lovely picture by Uptown eventing of a smiley jockey after riding the lovely Gangsta for the Scouller family. He has very sadly now been sold and we wish his new owners every success with this one in a trillion pony. After a busy week with Aston Monday with 5, squad training Tuesday with 7 (attached video of Jackpot http://youtu.be/S7sS_RktdTw ..fastest time of the day!), test riding wednesday with 5, Tweseldown Thursday and Friday with 8 between us, we were then lucky enough to enjoy a quiet weekend at home drying out. Rather sadly Swalcliffe was cancelled this weekend but we're very much looking forward to Gatcombe next with 6.