Nunney International

I had Acis, Vendredi Biats and new ride BGS Captain Morgan in the Novice and Mo Cuiske and Creevagh Cooley in the CIC**.

Acis did a fantastic test to score a leading mark of 24.8.
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He then jumped a lovely clear in the show jumping and feels like he is developing all the time.

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He then flew round the cross country and made it feel very easy, he picked up a couple of time faults, but still won his section comfortably.

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Vendredi Biats also did a fantastic test, he scored 25.8 to lead his section.

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He then jumped a lovely clear in the show jumping and made it feel easy.

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He then jumped a super clear in the time round the cross country, he gave me a great ride keeping a super rhythm.

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BGS Captain Morgan is a new ride, who has come to me to be sold, as he has 43 points he had to compete HC. He did a super test staying relaxed a balanced. He scored 25.3 which would have put us at the top of the leader board.

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He then jumped a brilliant clear round the show jumping and didn't find it at all taxing.

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He jumped a lovely clear round the cross country and found it all very straight forward and easy.
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Mo Cuiske did a great test in the CIC** and showed some lovely work, he got a little tight in his walk which was a shame, but as he hadn't had a run since Aston he was forgiven. He scored a 45.

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He then jumped a lovely clear in the show jumping, but unfortunately I was a little on the slow side and picked up two time faults.

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He then absolutely cruised round the cross country and found the tricky track that caused a lot of problems extremely easy. We picked up 4 time faults which put us in 6th place:

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Creevagh Cooley, although still a little green at this level in the dressage did a super test, her simple changes weren't quite as direct as they could have been and she tripped over fairly badly at one point, but other than those couple of mistakes I was thrilled with her. She scored 45.2

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She then jumped an immaculate clear in the show jumping.

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The cross country would have been her toughest track to date and she flew round like a pro and picked up 3.2 time faults. This left her in a fantastic 4th place.

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Bramham CCI***

I just had Persimmon running at Bramham in the CCI***. 

He had is test early on Friday morning and was fantastic. He warmed up really well and took it forward to his test. He did some brilliant and expressive work and stayed extremely rideable. He did his best changes in a test to date and was completely rideable. He scored a 38.9 which left us in 3rd place going into the cross country. 

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After some over night rain the ground for the cross country was near perfect considering all the dry weather we have had recently. Persimmon was on mega form and gave me a near foot perfect ride round a typically big Bramham track, we picked up a couple of time faults, as although Persimmon finished full of running he got a little on his shoulders towards the end of the track so I had to set him up a little more than normal. He super round kept us in 3rd place going into the show jumping. 

Persimmon trotted up really well on Sunday morning and flew through the trot up. The show jumping was big and square and causing plenty of trouble, but after warming up brilliantly I was confident he would jump well in the ring. Persimmon jumped a super clear and easily jumped as well as at a one day which was a fantastic feeling. His clear moved him up to an amazing 2nd place. I couldn't have been happier with his performance all week and am now keeping my fingers crossed that we might get selected to go to Blair. 

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Tattersalls International

Out in Tattersalls I had Creevagh Cooley doing the CCI* for six and seven year old horses and Ceylor LAN in the CCI***.

Both horses were outstanding all week and came home with the most exciting results. 

Ceylor LAN at only 8 years old was competing in his first CCI*** and couldn't have gone any better in my wildest dreams. He is still green and inexperienced at this level and was going to Tattersalls to try and get his Olympic qualification. He did a super tests in which he stayed forwards, through and swinging. He made a few small errors but did some brilliant work. He scored 42.3 which put us in 4th place going into the cross country. 

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The cross country course was big, bold and challenging, but Ceylor LAN answered every question set out in front of him with ease. He kept an lovely rythm and made the track feel remarkably easy, I picked up 3.6 time faults as I was conscious of not over pushing him. The last thing I wanted was for him to feel tired or to have a bad experience. The course caused plenty of trouble and even with our few time faults we moved up to 2nd going into the show jumping. 

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He then jumped an absolutely foot perfect round in the show jumping, he didn't feel at all tired and the cross country certainly didn't seem to have hindered him in anyway for this final phase. I was delighted with him and couldn't have asked for more. I wasn't watching Andrew Nicholson jump as I felt he was a dead cert to win so was completely gob smacked when someone came running up to say that we had won as Andrew had had a fence down!! Everything is still sinking in and I still can't believe that my exceptionally talented Ceylor LAN has won his first CCI*** at only 8!! 

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I really can't thank UK Sport and the funding I recieve through the lottery enough. Their added support has made a huge difference to me. I also owe a huge thanks to my amazing owners, sponsors, Toggi, Topspe, Woof Wear, Wow Saddles, Champion, Mole Valley, Yeoman Haylge, Equiclass, Aqueos and Flying changes and my fantastic team. None of this would be possible without you. 

Creevagh Cooley was competing in her first three day event, she did a lovely test and showed some real promise. She is still big and weak and struggles to keep control of her powerful paces in the arena, but I was thrilled with the work she produced. She scored a 48.3, which put us in 16th place going into the cross country. 

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The cross country was not overly testing for the CCI* and as Creevagh Cooley had just been competing in Intermediates this spring she found the course rather small! She gave me a great ride and finished easily inside the time to move up to 12th place going into the show jumping. 

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The top 15 were all very close so I was very aware that a clear round could potentially move us up a long way. Creevagh Cooley jumped her socks off and jumped a beautiful clear which moved us up to a fantastic 5th place!

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Rockingham

I had Acis and Vendredi Biats in the Novice.

Vendredi Biats did a lovely consistent test and is getting better and better to the contact. He scored a leading mark of 27.8.
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He then jumped a foot perfect double clear to finish in the time and win his section comfortably.

Acis not to be out done by his stable mate also did a super test and scored a 27.8!
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He then jumped a. Great round in the show jumping and was extremely unlucky to have one fence down. He just got a little tight jumping towards the trade stands that were situated very closely to the junking arena. He then jumped a super confident clear round the cross country to finish 8th.