EN reader Alice competed in her first preliminary horse trials this past weekend at GMHA, where she was the only double-clear stadium round in her division. Congrats Alice!
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From Alice:
Hi guys!
It was very wet. Very very wet. Check out the splash in stadium Saturday mid morning:
That was me, Alice VanBokkelen, riding Fair Deal (Skippy) to the only double clear stadium in JYOP. It continued to rain like that all day with the rising stream and the deepening muck. At 5pm Saturday evening they announced XC would run the next day with a modified course. They took out the upper field and the coffin and removed the combinations around the water, making them single jumps (splash throughs to separately numbered jumps on the other side). Thankfully the sun came out Sunday morning and XC got started. There were a lot of withdrawals before XC (mostly the day before) and the warm up was complete muck, but the course rode well and it was still a good first time out at prelim for me and the boy.
Big thanks to the organizers for trying their best to make it a fun and safe day!
Alice VanBokkelen
