Earlier this spring Annie wrote about show jumper Marilyn Little-Meredith’s foray into eventing on the fiery mare Udonna and their quest to compete at the Fair Hill CCI3* this year. After a few months of mixed results in which Udonna’s enthusiasm often got the better of her on the cross-country, Marilyn traveled to Europe to compete in eventing and show jumping as well as buy some horses. The Chronicle has published an update on Marilyn today and explains that she sold Udonna to a European young rider for show jumping. Marilyn bought two experienced eventing horses in Europe, RF Easy Going, and RF Rovano Rex and competed them at the Salgen and Blair Castle 2*s. Marilyn has those two horses entered in the advanced at the Five Points Horse Trials in North Carolina this weekend as well as three other horses from beginner novice to prelim. Five Points will be Mailyn’s first advanced
Marilyn now has seven eventing horses in total including several young horses that she has converted from show jumping and she plans to compete at show jumping two weekends a month and eventing one. Marilyn intends to create a business selling eventers as well as show jumpers. She still rides with Karen and David O’Connor and Karen rode Marilyn’s young eventer RH Blitsfee to a training level victory at Richland last weekend and will compete Blitsfee at Five Points. [Five Points Entries PDF]
I met Marilyn earlier this spring and she struck me as someone with the determination and natural talent to accomplish whatever she wants to with horses. This is definitely not a one horse experiment for Marilyn and I’m excited to see her new horses in action here in the US.
Go eventing.
