Cross Country Thread!

[Jeni the dragon]

Well done Imo! Fastest so far!

 

[milliepops]

I don't think it's the knowledge of the pins being there, I wonder if it may just be a touch too long with the striding and with them being such wide fences you have to be really stretched out to make it over.

def looks like it's built on attacking strides.

 

[horselady77]

are all horses/riders okay that have had falls?

 

[ihatework]

Do you think riders are taking more chances/going off long strides BECAUSE there are frangible pins? ie are the fences no longer being given the respect that they need?

No, I really don’t think so at all. At least not consciously.

 

[milliepops]

Bloody hell tim!!

 

[Jeni the dragon]

Tim price living very dangerously.

 

[Honey08]

I don't think anyone would take a risk because of a pin, you're still likely to fall and you don't want to teach a horse to hit xc fences! I think a lot of them look scared and frozen, not riding properly, just flapping and kicking..

Tim having a struggle at the T H.

Even Tina saying its getting bad to watch all this dreadful riding.

The rider needed a wallop there, not the horse.

 

[lannerch]

Crikey Tim price is looking hairy.

 

[Jeni the dragon]

Seriously! I'm with Tina this is not good.

 

[TPO]

Julia Norman using her crop after what she put that horse into 😡

 

[milliepops]

OMG what a good horse

 

[Michen]

I’m amazed that Horse jumped the second gate. What an honest animal. Scarey

 

[lannerch]

Why did she keep going !

 

[milliepops]

phew nice to watch a decent ride through the Maltings.

 

[daffy44]

Tim Price showed exactly how to ride the Maltings

 

[ihatework]

It’s all a bit ugly.

Tim rode that Maltings super considering the horses confidence must have been seriously depleted at the trout hatchery

 

[Honey08]

Even Tim Price is looking awkward to watch!

The course builders are earning their pay today.

 

[frittSkritt]

Commentators mentioned Tim added a stride at the oxers

 

[milliepops]

Why did she keep going !

so close to home isn't it.

 

[Jeni the dragon]

I feel for a lot of these horses.

 

[milliepops]

that actually seemed a bit unlucky

 

[Michen]

Whatttttttt t f

 

[lannerch]

The maltings is causing too many problems

 

[Jeni the dragon]

Keep having to leave for a breather at the moment.

 

[milliepops]

good decision there. Very uncomfortable viewing when the horse isn't really travellign at those oxers.

 

[daffy44]

I think we will start to see a lot more long options at the Maltings

 

[{97702}]

About time they started being a bit more effective and pulling up poor riders - especially Julia Norman 😡

 

[NinjaPony]

Starting to think there needs to be some kind of stewarding pulling up system... some of these should have been made to stop much sooner than they did!

 

[Honey08]

This is a good old horse. Dee feels like shes been going round on him for decades.

There ought to be a lot of cards handed out from this event. BE needs some classes inbetween 3* and 4*,(old money, whatever theyre called now!). These newbies arent ready for the step up.

 

[{97702}]

Starting to think there needs to be some kind of stewarding pulling up system... some of these should have been made to stop much sooner than they did!

Great minds think alike NP 😄😄