What a month it has been since I last
wrote, we have had further success at Belsay and I have now competed at my
first Bramham International Horse Trials!
Harry Robinson was running in the NRF at
Belsay and he narrowly missed out on Gatcombe qualification taking 5th
place with a great double clear.
My next event was Bramham International
with Miss Brodie. It feels like this has been a long time coming and it has
been a lifelong goal of mine to compete there. We were doing our first CCI3*
and the whole experience didn’t disappoint. Jules was on great form from start
to finish. She held it together in the dressage, to produce a good test for where
her training is at this level and the amount of atmosphere. Our XC round on the
Saturday is something I will never forget; she made the huge course feel easy
and stormed round. The cheering and clapping from the Yorkshire crowd every
time we successfully negotiated a fence was surreal and really spurred us on.
On the Sunday she came out to jump fantastically for an unlucky four faults. We
ended the competition in the top half gaining 25 points which means Jules is
now graded Advanced and we have another qualifying result taking us one step
closer to my new aim of competing at 4*.
A huge thank you to Fulmart Feeds for
providing Jules with her Equilage and Chillout Maintain cubes, both of which I
am sure aided her in being so full of running even at the end of the course and
being able to come out on Sunday and feel great in the showjumping.
I must also thank my family, the team, owners,
trainers etc, all of whom help to make my dreams possible.
In the coming months Harry is stepping up
to Intermediate and Bella will be getting some mileage under her belt whilst
Jules has a slightly quieter time before building back up with the aim of
Blenheim in the autumn.
I
also now have space to take on more rides, so if you fancy getting involved in
a syndicate, have a budding event horse or are looking for a new jockey please
get in touch.
Phil
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