Most of the horses have left the Kentucky Horse Park; Sandhills Tiger started his long journey back to Australia this morning, Be My Guest had this enormous horse van all to herself, as she’s flying back to England via Amsterdam. I was assured it was solely because that’s a cheaper route, but I’m not sure there wasn’t an ulterior motive! How the driver managed to park this massive vehicle in the isolation facililty this afternoon, and get it out is a mystery, but these commercial van drivers are amazing.
Grass Valley, Neuf, Sonas Rovatio and Mary’s two horses go home tomorrow via Atlanta, which means they have a shorter drive either end of the flight. They used to have to drive home all the way from Scotland once they arrived in Great Britain which made for a hell of journey, even by US standards!
Here’s a quiz question especially with hoof expert Fran Jurga in mind. Which horse completed Rolex 2011 with heart bar shoes, a la WEG multi-medalist Totilas?
Not a great picture, you’ll have to take my word for it, sorry! Also, if anyone read my tweet quiz question last night, about which two riders in the Rolex 2011 top 20 that weren’t thinking about white stock shirts when they put on a leopard-print, and a black bra? I’m sworn to secrecy not to name names, but one has represented the US many times, and is a previous winner of Rolex, and the other will certainly be also before too long. Answer to the horse shoe question tomorrow night, until then go eventing!
