Just got home and want to sleep but will do my Blog first..........
Weds
9am - We arrive at Hartpury International 3DE with Icon for the 3DE, Amazing Mika BYEH and Take It 2 The Top BYEH. My friends Louise and Amy came along to help plait etc which was a good job as I was in a busy flap at times!
10 am - Amazing Mika went beautifully in the BYEH I was so thrilled with him, he was totally dwarfed by the real event types but what a little star he was. The BYEH was held in the main arena with everything set up for the 3DE, a big ask for a young horse.
12 am - We stable Icon and settle him in after he is checked over by the vets.
1 pm - I school Icon in one of the many superb indoor arenas.
2 pm - Take It 2 The Top performs outstandingly in the BYEH to finish 11th in a very high class field.
3 pm - We plait and prepare Icon for the official vet inspection and trot up.
4 pm - Icon trots up, but disaster he does not pass and is sent to the holding box, we all gain a few grey hairs from stress!
4.15 - Icon passes the trot up. Phew that was scary.
5 pm - I take the young horses home, ride Top Gun and return to Hartpury to look after Icon.
Thursday
Icons dressage is Friday, I have sold one of my youngsters so I had to return home to have him vetted and to load him off to his new home in Wales, then I ride Top Gun and then back to Hartpury to look after Icon, I ride him for 2 hours in despair as he refuses to relax and just gets covered in white frothy sweat, while all the other horses look amazing. Grrrrrr!
Friday
Icon relaxes and does the best test of his life to score a disappointing 67, I was gutted and got ready to withdraw him and go home. Then we hear it was a mistake adding up and he had a 57, so its game on again!!
Saturday
XC Icon flies round clear but I get held at fence 3 as a rider has had a fall on course and I have to wait for them to be sorted. This completely messes up my stopwatch, I complete clear with no idea if Icon has got inside the time or not. Later on we find out he had easily. I don't have a paid groom so thanks loads to all my friends who came to cheer us on and then helped wash off and do all the other stuff at the finish.
Sunday
5 am - Up early to exercise Icon and loosen him up.
8.30 am - Icon passes the trot up easily. Phew.
11am - Icon Show Jumps with 2 down, he was far too jolly but it was good to complete a 3 day event and especially at a local venue and to compete in the same class as our newly crowned Olympic Silver Medallists Tina Cooke and Nicky Wilson who were next dashing back to London for tonights closing ceremony.
OK Blog done' now I can sleep.
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