Link: Burghley Thursday Scores
1.Mary King on Apache Sauce 44.8
2.William Fox-Pitt on Macchiato 46.8
3.Laura Collett on Ginger May Killinghurst 47
4.Pippa Funnell on Mirage D’Elle 48.2
5.Geoff Curran on The Jump Jet 48.8
6.James Robinson on Comanche 49
Mary King and Apache Sauce took a two point lead at Burghley on Thursday. In an interesting moment during the test, Mary missed a movement and was asked after she finished the test to redo it starting with that movement.
“I missed a movement out and carried on to the finish and Marilyn Payne [ground jury member at E] got out of the hut and told me I’d missed the serpentine,” said Mary. “I did that then re-rode the last changes and final centreline and he did them better than the first time, so maybe it worked to my advantage.”
There are 5 British riders in the top 6, including William Fox-Pitt and Pippa Funnel, who is returning to Burghley for the first time since 2004. The 21 year old Laura Collet, who won European Young Riders with the British team, is a ride to watch on XC, as the Horse and Hound reports she will be running XC in “a running gag with two mouthpieces and Kineton noseband.”
Go eventing.
