Badminton XC thread

Malibu_Stacy said:
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 full on rotational over Nicola. Dublin up and trotted off, Nicola wasn’t moving as camera cut away.
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Thankyou for the update, really hope Nicola is okay. I’ve watched the course walks several times so I knew the course and didn’t think that fence would be an issue as others said. But as we all now in our sport, even the smallest fences can cause freak accidents/
 
Twitter eventing FB page is reporting (from someone there) that screens are up around Nicola. Please god I hope she’s ok.
 
The good thing about the hold is that the adrenaline will have come out of Swallow Springs a bit, but he's still looking good despite that fight with the flag.
 
Custard Cream said:
Twitter eventing FB page is reporting (from someone there) that screens are up around Nicola. Please god I hope she’s ok.
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Standard practice, so hopefully nothing to worry about! Fingers crossed we get some positive news about her condition soon.
 
Custard Cream said:
Twitter eventing FB page is reporting (from someone there) that screens are up around Nicola. Please god I hope she’s ok.
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I wouldn’t take screens being up to be anything too scary - it’s usually done for privacy when a horse or rider isn’t back to their feet immediately. They’re now back on course so and the fence is removed, so I can imagine Nicola is in the best hands
 
Custard Cream said:
I suspect it’s been removed because they are still helping Nicola and it is the fastest way to get the course reopened.
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They seemed to have moved it to one side from what we saw when Ros jumped through it? Admittedly I don’t think I saw it in the original form except during Nicola’s fall so can’t 100% remember the layout!
 
Pippa is on my Eventing Manager fantasy team so hoping she goes well (with both her rides - felt a bit guilty removing Harry Meade but his dressage just wasn’t good enough lol)
 
Interesting to see if anything happens to Oli’s score after that quarry incident. We always get told when FJing to give the penalties if unsure as they can always get taken off later, but it doesn’t seem as if he’s had anything?
 
I was excited for today - really looking forward to cheering on Pippa (esp on Grafton Street as he’s half brother to Lottie!) Ben Hobday, Kylie, Sarah Way, and most of all Nicola who has taught Amber, Toby & Dolly because she is just so sweet and approachable and happy to teach all levels. There are some top riders I wouldn’t dare go and have a lesson with! Hard to enjoy this at the moment with so many incidents so early in the day. Pippa out too now. Oli is an absolutely brilliant rider.
 
I have to say I'm very impressed with the coverage and the shots. There's only one slightly weird sport with the cameras at one of the waters but much better than last times!

Piggy is true class isn't she?
 
Ambers Echo said:
I was excited for today - really looking forward to cheering on Pippa (esp on Grafton Street as he’s half brother to Lottie!) Ben Hobday, Kylie, Sarah Way, and most of all Nicola who has taught Amber, Toby & Dolly because she is just so sweet and approachable and happy to teach all levels. There are some top riders I wouldn’t dare go and have a lesson with! Hard to enjoy this at the moment with so many incidents so early in the day. Pippa out too now. Oli is an absolutely brilliant rider.
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I’m definitely missing seeing as many of the European riders this year though. Always love watching Michael Jung and Ingrid Klimke xc
 
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