Sinead and Tate earlier this summer
Thanks again to Sinead for sending us another one of her insightful updates, this time right before one of the biggest events in the world – impeccable timing! We look forward to meeting On Cue, but before that we look forward to cheering Sinead and Tate around Burghley this weekend – Go SHE Eventing!
From Sinead:
Last year the weekend before Burghley was spent freaking out, watching the course walk over and over, and putting trot up outfits together!This year I decided that after a summer of unknowns I should take life moment by moment. I focused on spending the last weekend before Burghley competing at a BE 100 (aka Training level) event on a lovely new mare, On Cue.Esib Power and I set out on an adventure Saturday morning with high hopes for our youngsters, but leaving behind our no-go Olympic, but Hopeful Burghley Mounts, Seb ( September Bliss) and Tate ( Manoir De Carneville) at the farm under the care of the infamous Irish Sarah (Will Coalman’s and every other upper level rider’s groom at the Olympics!).The lorry ride honestly was delightful…being that I could stomach a delicious Bacon Sandwich! I have been trained, due to this summer’s Events, to have a sick, don’t-even-try-to-eat-anything feeling in my stomach for the last few competitions.Competition at the upper levels is so EXACT…you think and over think everything. “Do I have the right angle in the shoulder in?” ” Is this the right canter for the coffin?” “What if I have the wrong distance into the triple.. it will all fall down .. and then life as we know it will be over! ….. right ;)”Youngsters are simply… reactions. You train tools and then you just wait for the horses’ impressions of a fence and then .. REACT.. it is hard to over think reactions and it is also hard to worry about the unknown when everything is unknown!I loved this Burghley Prep because I just got down to basics, reactions and loving the sport.Burghley is an unknown but I am going to TRY and not freak out, get to the basics and count on good reactions!Cheers to EVENTING, and part of On Cue will be available soon for syndication ( if you love her radar ears, call me!).
