Seems like it was quite a hot weekend out there for pretty much everyone. I’m based up near Boston, Massachusetts and as we say around here it was a real scorcha’, so I can’t imagine what it was like down in Florida for the Ocala Summer I Horse Trials. All you riders and horses down there must be well acclimated to this kind of weather!
For today’s featured video, we’re treated to a spin around the Ocala Intermediate/Preliminary cross country course courtesy of Elisa Wallace and one of her rising stars, Riot Gear (who Elisa affectionately calls Rye Bread) a 12-year-old Oldenburg gelding owned by Steve Sukup and Vicki Larson Sukup. While the goal of the weekend was mainly to further build theirs partnership and have an educational ride — even forgoing her watch on cross country in order to focus on the gallop — Elisa and Riot Gear still handily won the division. Turns out she had the fastest round anyway!
