Recent content by sarah3980

I live close by Badminton, and I've also heard that Grassroots may be cancelled. I'm sure they'd hold it at another venue because its a championship. Badminton was just as wet 2 years ago & it ran. They did take some fences out on the XC though. The staff do a great job working on the ground...

Just seen on Twitter that Chilli Morning is going to William Fox Pitt to try. I'd like to see him back with Nick as they obviously had a very good relationship, and it was a shame to break it up in the first place.

Stroud Saddlery - http://www.stroudsaddlery.co.uk/ I bought a saddle from them a couple of years ago and the service was fantastic. Would definately recommend them. Also Grant Barnes Saddlery in Malmesbury might be worth looking into.

It's used to be in the first two weeks of September. But it's not widely advertised. It starts and finishes at Gatcombe but doesn't use any of the Festival fences. They do have fences around the ride (up to about 3ft) which goes through Avening and towards Tebury before coming back into the...

You'll find that many top riders will enter the big events as a back up plan, and then nearer the time they'll w/d. I doubt if Miners Frolic is going to WEG that he'll start at Burghley.

http://www.sportinglife.com/others/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=others/10/08/08/EQUESTRIAN_Gatcombe_Nightlead.html It's not nice when this happens but as usual everybody at the event did a good job in extremely difficult circumstances.

It's a nice course, fairly flat with a slight uphill stretch somewhere on the course (depending on the direction). However, my experience is that the course is always up to height.