As I mentioned in my news and notes this morning, the North American Badminton horses fly out today on their quest for Badminton greatness. The Good Witch and Gin ‘N Juice are flying out of LAX in Los Angeles this afternoon. They will land in Amsterdam Thursday morning, spend a day layover to recover from the flight, and then head to England. Hawley and Ginny will be staying at Jackie Green’s farm and I believe The Good Witch will be at Mark’s farm.
Ballynoecastle, Port Authority, Mandiba, and Colombo are schedule to fly out of Atlanta to Amsterdam today as well. Steph will have more details on their travel plans in a guest blog for us later today.
All of the horses will head over to the Badminton grounds on Tuesday, hopefully happy and well rested from their travels. Traveling abroad to competitions is an experience for horses and riders that can’t be taught. Being part of a huge event combined with the stresses of travel, jet lag, and everything else can definitely have an effect on how someone rides and only experience can teach the riders how to deal with that. This trip to Badminton will help everyone to prepare for hopefully a trip back to England next summer. Go eventing.
