Never one to waste a second, Sinead Halpin, who was the Guinea Pig on Thursday, doing the Test Ride on Manoir De Carneville for the Rolex Three Day Event Dressage judges, has filled up the rest of her days here in Lexington with flat and jumping lessons with Linda Zang and Lauren Hough. Friday morning was nippy, to say the least, and found me bundled up early watching Sinead jump with Lauren, definitely worth getting up for! Lauren changed the exercises quite frequently, and had Sinead do several tight turns and roll backs, but keeping everything nice and smooth and in a rhythm. Meg was dispatched for spurs and once Sinead was wearing them he jumped even better. I couldn’t hear what Lauren was saying, so I accosted her afterwards, and she chatted for a couple of minutes.
While Sinead was schooling with Lauren, Andrew Nicholson also brought Qwanza in for a canter around, but didn’t jump her, and Bruce Davidson coached Kristi Nunnik over some jumps in preparation for Saturday’s cross country.
After their jump, Sinead took Manoir de Carneville out for a gallop around the park; I think their plan is to have a dressage lesson with Linda on saturday, and then Meg will start the long drive home to New Jersey early Sunday morning – no news yet as to the whereabouts of a certain pig. Many thanks to Lauren, Sinead and Meg for their time, many thanks to you as always for making Eventing Nation a part of your day, and Go Eventing!
