The two horses topping the leaderboard at the end of the Advanced Divisions could hardly be more different. Gin’n’Juice, Hawley’s ride has jumped round the WEG for a silver medal, and completed Badminton and Burghley last year – a bouncy bundle of feistiness, she pulled Hawley around both the xc yesterday and the stadium today oozing confidence, looking and obviously feeling a million dollars.
Leslie Law’s Zenith ISF, in his only third outing at this level has yet to put a foot wrong, and in Leslie’s capable hands he just keeps getting better and better.
The show-jumping course caused plenty of problems for the advanced this morning, I”ll have a full report and more pictures later, but of less than a dozen clears, Leslie jumped two of them. Heather Gillette jumped a measured round to go clear but picked up five time. Lots of riders had good rounds for an unlucky rail – Hannah Sue Burnett had the last down on Harbour Pilot but they looked fantastic. Jessie Phoenix had a blonde moment on lovely Exponential and didn’t jump the first fence, jumped the next three beautifully before she was pulled up. Whitney Weston moved up to fourth with a double clear – despite rattling quite a few Whitney kept her head and Lusty tried her heart out, I really like the way this partnership is developing. Lots more photos to come, thanks for visiting Eventing Nation and go eventing!
