Barbury Castle today - with photo's

[Jiffy]

I took the day off work to go down to Barbury Castle & watch some ** dressage today. For the first time I met with MizElz and her lovely black lab' -

It was great to be able to get so close to the fences, but I found it slightly confusing as they now have a novice & *** course built. Some random pictures of both courses in no particular order.

How pokey is this one...

On top of a scary little hillock...

MizElz is hiding somewhere in the middle of this fence

 

[RachelB]

Oh darnit I forgot that was today!! I knew there was something I wanted to do on my day off

I like MizElz's bear fence the best

 

[Jiffy]

It's quite boring with no jumping to photograph, but Willis Bros. have made some lovely fences -

Oh, I did manage to get one XC jumping shot

This looks like they stole Santa_Claus fence design...

 

[Jiffy]

Finally some dressage...

Sacha Pemble

Daisy Dick

 

[Bossanova]

Oh its so beautiful there!!
Fab pics

 

[Acolyte]

So would you say it is worth going to spectate Jiffy? I have heard it is a good 'viewing' xc course?

 

[CastleMouse]

Brilliant photos - Thanks for sharing

Are you going again tomorrow or Saturday?

 

[Jiffy]

Good God Acolyte! Why it's fantastic...you see more than at Blenheim in a fab setting.

Or you could let me go with your Ma instead!

 

[Jiffy]

I saw your name up on the scoreboard already!

It'll be a fab event for Nov section riders.

 

[Jiffy]

Alas, Castlemouse I'm not going again, unless some nice person wants to buy me a ticket!

Prices are too expensive this year imho. I'll just go to Blenheim instead.

 

[Acolyte]

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Good God Acolyte! Why it's fantastic...you see more than at Blenheim in a fab setting.

Or you could let me go with your Ma instead!

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Okay okay I am convinced

As for the second bit.... please, feel free

 

[BBs]

Looks ace Jiff.
Great pics as always.
Some decent dark clouds over head, hope you didnt get wet.

Theyve always had the Novice and *** dont they have a ** this year too?

 

[Jiffy]

I forgot to mention the wonderful arena which is set in an amphitheatre with random big rocks to sit on one side of it. The arena is banked at one end with a lake on top of it, the riders have to canter up and down the slope.

If you get bored of that, they're showing Wimbledon and Silverstone on the diamond screens as well.

Oh...and there's a podium for the prize-giving too, so if you stay to the end you get a great view of the prize-winners too.

 

[Jiffy]

It was the ** Stressage today & only half a dozen drops of rain fell there, so didn't get wet.

I was a bit peeved that there wasn't a Joules or Musto tradestand open today.

 

[BBs]

OMG!
Jiffy thats terrible! Good job you didnt have to pay to get in, or I would have been asking for a refund

Did they have many tradestands there??

 

[BBs]

I see Mr and Mrs Fredericks are 1 and 2 after the dressage for the ***
Mr Nicholson leads the ** with Kitty boggis 2nd.

 

[SpottedCat]

Please tell me none of those are in the novice.....

 

[Jiffy]

You have Lucinda Fredericks and Rodney Powell in your section!

Good Luck - it looks great.

 

[Jiffy]

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Did they have many tradestands there??

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I didn't go last year, but I reckon there are more than were there 2yrs ago. It's just that very few of them opened today & lots were still setting up.

 

[SpottedCat]

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You have Lucinda Fredericks and Rodney Powell in your section!

Good Luck - it looks great.

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Mary King won my section last weekend, if Lucinda is in my section then no chance of me leading after the dressage

. I'm used to it, once you get up to novice the sections all read like a who's who of eventing!

 

[hotellie]

wow looks an amazing place!

 

[flohelf]

Jiffy, your pics are absolutely fab !!! The kind to make some of us think they live on the wrong side of the channel

Oooooooh sh....t

 

[teapot]

Oh wow - Barbury's on my eventing to do list as such. Fantastic pics

 

[Jiffy]

Blackeventer, I think you ought to bring your entourage (excuse the lack of punctuation) to do an Oxfordshire centred eventing season next year.

 

[flohelf]

Definitely !!!
The fences, the scenery, the sky.... And Jiffy to take loads of pics to take back to the wrong side of the channel from.....The best shire