Louise Wilson, based just outside North Rigton is great, as is Jan Brown who tends to operate out of YRC (where Jane Bartle is based). Lauren Noble is a really good dressage/ flatwork instructor, I don’t think she’s has a regular base. Carly Mason is another all round instructor, with a...
This may be true to a degree, and certainly for the US horse who appears to have been pulled up between fences rather than fell BUT we watched 4 riders IIRC at the fence in question after the course had restarted of whom only one jumped it well; two were awkward but made it over, one the horse...
Having seen several horses early in the day jump no 7 (not the Japanese horse, we were a couple of jumps ahead when course was held) I think the issue was less part b itself or just the striding between a and b, but that part b being skinny meant that on approach to part a the horse couldn’t see...
It’s on Badminton TV, live now. Everything presented excepted until I think it was Hector Payne & Dynasty, who’ve gone to the hold box. Quite a few withdrawals, mainly Irish riders. William, Oli, Ros, Piggy, Kitty’s all accepted.
tbf she put her hand up, and then got off about half a second after that clip ended. If you watch carefully after the horse baulks at the second jump, as he twists away you can see a back shoe fly off, and it’s the same leg the horse then takes the lame steps on; I really don’t think she could...
Tom M came in quite fast to bounce, Toledo caught himself on second part pinged Tom off and went down. Both horse and rider up (and Toledo carried on himself down course) straight away.
Nicola had a really nasty fall at third part of Mars M combination, horse left a leg at the basket and had a...