Boyd and members of Team Neville Bardos present at the USEF Awards Ceremony – Chuck, Jeanie, April and Spike. What a fantastic night for all of the disciplines, and of course, especially for Neville and his connections. As Dr Jen Hlavacek, owner of Weltno’s Magic, also in the running for International Horse of the Year, so graciously put it, all the horses honoured were a special bunch, and had enjoyed extraordinary success throughout the year; losing to Neville didn’t diminish their sense of achievement or pride in their horse in any way whatsoever, in fact they were honoured to be ranked with him.
Props to the USEF for doing a fantastic job on all levels – from production to decoration, everything ran smoothly and looked beautiful. You can watch all the videos of the Horses of Honour on the USEFnetwork.com website, as well as interviews with the winners. Meanwhile, I caught up with Boyd very briefly, and many apologies for the second-rate videography; having worked with the experts all night I’m now not only well aware of my own short-comings, but look out EN John, spoilt for life and will be demanding a crew from hereon in!
Congratulations again to everyone, but especially Neville who Boyd said would be getting some extra treats, and perhaps a word in the judges’ ears to see if they might be swayed by HOTY! Thank- you to the USEF for a fantastic night, don’t forget you can watch the live stream of Saturday night’s awards too, and go Eventing!
