Peter and Henny at Red Hills, photo by Samantha Clark
From Peter’s facebook page:
Well 2012 continues to be a challenging year for Henry and I. Last week when I turned Henry out he rolled, jumped up, bucked and spun around to gallop off. Unfortunately when he went to take off he slipped and fell on his shoulder. He is going to be just fine but he banged himself and is a little sore. We have had the vet look at him and there is nothing seriously wrong but he needs a few days of light work and no jumping for a week or so. Of course the timing couldn’t be worse. We were planning to leave for Hartpury tomorrow which is the only CIC*** I can run to get him ready for Burghley. He needs the run there since he has not been to an event in almost 6 months due to my ankle. Henry is an amazing horse but I can not ask him to run a CCI**** without another run before hand. I can’t tell you how frustrated I am. We have been training in Germany with a Grand Prix dressage rider, Rick Klaassen www.rickklaassen.com, and a Sports Movement Scientist, Eckart Meyners, who has been working on my body movement. The education we have both received has been invaluable and we were so excited to compete at Burghley. I am absolutely devastated that once again I am forced to make the “safe” decision not to run. We will be traveling back to the US as soon as I can get a flight organized. This fall will be dedicated to more dressage work and we will be back competing in the US this winter in route to Rolex next spring. Thank you all so much for your support especially during the last few trying months.
