Lauren Yallop of Great Britain and her own One More Step
The trot up (jog) was uneventful this morning with all horses from the National teams of Japan, Australia and New Zealand all passed without incident.
Will Faudree and Pawlow
There were some very nice outfits from both the guys and girls, a selection is below. Only three horses were held, the first Ginny Howes’ Gamblers Image was passed on re-inspection. Paul Hart of South Africa’s Heartbreak Hill was quite obviously lame and was spun by the ground jury. Finally Kenny, Renan Guerreiro from Brazil’s ride was withdrawn after being held.
Georgie Spence and Bow House Mandalin
The dream of seeing Piggy French win in a one-two double has been dashed overnight with the withdrawal of the first placed horse Lemington Lett Dance. Third placed Billy Landretti with Pippa Funnel was also withdrawn before the trot as was Geoffroy De Jamblinne’s Never Fly.
Tiana Coudray and Ringwood Magister now in second place
With two of the top three horses now out of contention, Tiana Coudray and Ringwood Magister move into second place with third place now filled by Bettina Hoy. Phillip Dutton and Clark Montgomery move into ninth and tenth places. Show jumping will be exciting and I have my fingers crossed for personal favorite Clarke Johnstone and Orient Express currently in sixth place just 8.8 behind the leader Piggy French.
Sophie Hearle and Western Rainbow
Unfortunately over night we had some bad news about Kyle Carter’s Madison Park with his injuries being confirmed as having torn a ligament and slipped a tendon off his hock. We wish Kyle and Parker the best of luck.
Clark Montgomery and Loughan Glen in tenth position
Eventing Nation World Teams Championship, hosted by Blenheim Horse Trials
Earlier this weekend I made up my very own international teams championship for the Blenheim event. Why? We had 8 nations with 3 or more combinations. I played selector for Team GBR and Team USA. I didn’t get to a post XC update yesterday and in all honesty, being an Aussie I wish I hadn’t started this in the first place. Here are the team standings after XC.
USA 156.1
New Zealand 171.8
Germany 193.7
France 198.5
Ireland 209.2
Japan 223.9
Australia 227.9
Great Britain 239.0
Show jumping is this afternoon and the Aussie team have one last chance to redeem some pride, fingers crossed.
Vittoria Panizzon and Borough Pennyz of Italy in fourth
Yours in Eventing,
ESJ
