The Canadian Olympic team competed in a schooling show today and Rebecca Howard was kind enough to send us a report from the show and training camp. For much more from Rebecca check out her website. As always, thanks for writing this Rebecca and thank you for reading.
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From Rebecca:
Camp Canada is going strong. We “Olympic-cans,” which has become our title thanks to the local clown Toby, have very much settled in to life at Maizey Manor. We seem to be on an every second day rotation of good weather. Yesterday was rainy and cold…today sunny and nice.
I think we are going to need more than one day at a time to dry things out. My running shoes are evidence of the mud around these parts. Bar the weather, yesterday was quite a good day. It was Jump day. All our horses were exceptionally good. The afternoon activity as organized by our host Catherine was shooting sporting clays. Canadian Olimpicans with guns…. Watch out!
Last night, us riders cooked a dinner and had the entire team and Maisey Mannor crowd over to our cottage. Again this year’s team is filled with amazing people; we usually travel in a pack and there is a lot of laughter – always. Well almost always. Today was Dressage schooling show day…where there was not as much laughter I have to say. Rupert was quite good in warm up but did get behind me in the arena, and the quality of work was not as good. I am so glad we went, I have watched the video many times… and can’t wait until next dressage day. But tomorrow we Gallop.
Muddy shoes
