Arthur’s Advanced B Wrap Up

Arthur pulled it off for Allison Springer and delivered a clear round earlier this morning to take home the Gold Cup and the competitive Advanced B division which was full of riders heading for Rolex, and even Badminton.  Despite a few rubs, more importantly he looked completely on the job and ready to go to work, and wasn’t distracted by anything, which was a relief for everyone, not just Allison I think!

All that time in Wellington and we thought Sinead was just blinging out her helmet and hanging with the rich and famous, but it seems she’s been perfecting her dressage and show-jumping too! Look at her jump off style! Manoir de Carneville, Taterball, the French Princess, call him whatever you like, but you’v e got to respect his mad skillz in all three phases – look out London! A beautiful double clear just cemented a solid weekend, and as usual the SHE team partied as hard as they rocked the results – nice work, girls!

Courageous Comet jumped clear for 3rd place, but to be honest it was his stablemate Can’t Fire Me  who was also clear for 5th, who looked the better horse today. Comet looked tired, and a little bit old, as much as I hate to write it. He rattled every single jump but knows his job so well that he managed to leave them all up, and Becky also knows him well enough to realise what to do on him to get the job done.

Lovely lovely Icarus came through and jumped a beautiful clear for fourth place for Michael Pollard. Wonderful Will apparently banged himself on cross country and sustained some bruising so didn’t jump today.  Cool under pressure, Clark Montgomery also rode a beautiful double clear on Loughan Glen to finish in 6th place on his dressage score.

Although this should be the easy phase for Marilyn Little Meredith I saw this horse stop with her at Rocking Horse, so she must have been happy to jump a double clear and finish 7th.  Sharon White rounded out the top 8 with a lovely double clear, also jumping well was Anthony Patch for Laine Ashker. The Foreman kicked out the first two jumps before he seemed to realise what was going on and then was copybook for the rest of the round, and Fernhill Eagle was slightly inconsistent still to have a couple down. Congratulations to everyone in this tough division, and thank you to the riders who supported the Adequan USEA Gold Cup Series.  More reports to come from the trot up , very brief, they all passed, (!) but I did get a couple of pictures, and the CIC**, hopefully all before we start the CIC*** show-jumping shortly! Go git ‘r done, and Go Eventing!

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