This is a lovely event. The dressage, SJ, XC and lorry park are all within a 2 minute walk and it is set in rolling Cotswold countryside. They balloted lots so that speaks for itself.
Milo was a little sharp in the dressage and I was not able to press him for those extra marks. He pinged clear round the SJ. The XC was quite a big step up for him. It was in places more like a small novice. Quite a number of fences were inter space leaps, it was a fabulous educating course and really flowed well. I was worried about the Ski Jump, the double of skinnies into a sunken gully, a large brush before a step down, the tyres into dark with a ditch beyond and the water - A large brush to a small log into the water and a wide house out. What a lot of technical questions for my Novice boy. He coped really well and despite the steep hills went clear inside the time. Our only wobble was the tyres when he hestitated after drifting right and so it seemed we were jumping right into a tree. He came 8th only 1 mark away from 3rd!
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