Burghley showjumping

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Looks like a very tricky course, with time hard to get.
Most of the bottom half of the field have SJ'ed - no clear rounds yet, mostly cricket scores!!
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Will think that there will be a lot place reshuffling this pm ........
 
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oh dear...zara has got too much saddle soap on her saddle!

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Yep. and I think Piggy French still has a label stuck on her jods
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I saw that Toggi brand on her thigh! lol.


Well done William and of course Polly for getting second, what a result!


Of course, well done to Andrew as well. Shame about the showjumping.
 
It just seemed, that they were two different shades....


Almost as if someone had been cleaning her saddle far to late. lol!


Could be sticky jods......
 
speaking of eye tests - what WAS wrong with that last fence in the SJ - the dark blue planks - only about 3 horses managed to jump it - and yeah - it was planks BUT

it can't just be the colour (which is what was said on TV).
Was there something in the background (the TV showed it lined up with an arch at the arena entrance/exit) that unsighted the horses

they weren't tapping it out - they were booting it out
 
it was a very dull, smallish fence, totally upright with no groundline, back towards the exit iirc, ideal to catch a tired horse out. plus it seemed to be on a bit of a dodgy distance from the previous fence... the only one i saw meet it perfectly and clear it was Polly Stockton, who'd just had a bit of a misser and jumped the previous fence badly, hitting it and landing short, which put her on the right distance for the planks!
nasty fence as last one at a 4 star. clever course building though, i guess.
 
Most of the horses that hit it didn't just slightly brush it off with a dangling leg, but knocked the middle of the top plank with their knees. A few got the top two planks. A lot of the horses looked more on the forehand on the approach than the others did

The toughest ones looked like the first oxer (bright orange, sloping - caused the two refusals, the final planks, the planks with a pole on top (no idea why), and the skinnier one with narrow planks.

The first refuser (which had a bit of a cricket score generally) was one of the horses that got held at the trot up, and although Polly S did well, her horse was throwing his head about when landing as though it hurt a bit. He was held and looked a couple of tenths lame in front (when he passed!) although he looked like he'd loosened off behind on representation. Interesting to see when/if he reappears...

Few of the horses looked 100% sound at the trot up - the well know pros' horses were apparently sounder than the less well known riders - it seemed like 1 or 2 tenths lame behind was passed without a second thought.
 
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