A little inspiration for those of you who are eventing this weekend

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Just watched this and it gave me goosebumps. I absolutely love Ginny's round but WOW Scotty and Murphy are just something else......Enjoy
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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2xrxWAasR6U
 
Wow indeed!
I'd forgotten just how good Ginny was, she and Lucinda Green were the best ever women riders in my eyes.
Mark Todd is just so good isn't he, I reckon Ian Stark relied a bit too much on that horse's ability to get him out of trouble compared to the other blokes..Then again, it was an impossible horse to ride for many other people who tried, so perhaps he knew the key to controlling him better than anyone else!
That's left a little glow inside watching that clip, I wonder who's going to do a round like that at Burghley this time...?
 
Murphy Himself was just amazing! He knew his job better than anyone else, I reckon Ian Stark did the right thing letting him get on. Can't see them being as successful nowadays though, with all the technical elements!
 
I love to see the way the horses just flow through each combination, it's poetry. I wish the designers would go back to old designs too...

HH, you are right, Ginny and Lucinda were world class and watching those vids does"give you a warm glow inside"
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Bring back old school eventing!

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Here here. I still think technicality plays a huge part in falls nowadays - how many times have you thought "I'll showjump this". But you're not doing SJ, are you?

Defo inspired, and when MH does that bounce of hedges that was meant to be a stride
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Clever pony, brave jockey. Didn't he break GL's arm/shoulder?
 
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Shows how different the courses were - those corners were on a straight line and no skinny after the drop. Just big, scary solid fences.

Bring back old school eventing!

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I'm sorry, but i have to dissagree with you..
Can i refer people back to the Jim Wofford article!!!!!
Did you not notice what was at the bottom of that drop.. a bounce!! about as Tech. as you can get!!!
Also, the ski jump, with a post and rail at the bottom of it, with a sharp turn to something else..
Courses were just as tech. back then as they are now!!

Riding a skinny on a well schooled 4* horse is not a worry, riders attack them like they would any other fence..
 
I was just thinking the same thing about Murphy Himself!! But TBH Henryhorn, I think he was an impossible horse to ride and I think Ian just had the gung-ho way of 'daring' the horse which made them so special. I think Murphy was hugely under rated because he was so damn difficult.
On another train of thought, is it my imagination or are they riding of a much 'stronger stride' than we see nowadays, technicality aside because TBH some of the water complexes then were bloody tricky!
 
Watch Ian again when Murphy takes a stride out at the coffin and the sunken road - he never moves. Totally different picture to some of the uber-controlled riding that we see now that doesn't allow any margin for the horse thinking for itself.

The profiles of the fences were much less friendly then. MdM is right - I cannot ever remember seeing a bounce after a drop (and a max height drop at that). If someone was mad enough to build one now they would be roll-tops, not post and rail. You rarely see upright rails into water anymore either and there were at least two examples on there (Badminton and Seoul I think).

Those courses were as technical in the combinations but without having the narrow elements. If you misjudged stride/pace/line then you fell. Simple. Now if you make the same mistakes the horse runs out. Different kind of technicality that's all.

Off XC schooling now, suitably fired up!
 
I forgot how small Charisma was - when MT was jumping drops it must have felt as though there was absolutely nothing in front of him! I enjoyed that jaunt down memory lane - cheers
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Thanks for that..........
The Irishman was one of my favourite horses of all time...I'd like to have seen him with someone like Toddy for his whole career, not as a spare rider.........

Murphy was incredible.......that bounce at Stockholm........some horses were getting TWO strides through that, when you see it in isolation, you don't really realise the magnitude of what he did.

I saw him in the flesh several times, and he really wasn't that big, only about 16.1, but he looked like a monster XC........
 
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