Fox Pitt into the lead

what happens is this the YR is a championship so everything MUST be qualified as per the rules no exception but at a regular three day the selectors/national federations can make a request to see a combination that might be technically not qualified (i.e. fernhill sox' had run out) if they are suitably experinced etc etc. they hardly ever use this option because as i said for a championship they have to be completely qualified. Laura is well up for a three star (obviously) the horse has good two star form and therefore as long as fit and well in the interests of team GB to see it go bearing in mind there are europeans next year (seniors) and a good run here would qualify it.
 
well lucinda told a friend of mine yesterday they might as well have a ploughing contest in the ground so i dont think she reckons its going to be a dressage contest anyway!!
 
lucretia u never cease to amaze me with ur bottom less pit of knowledge, u seem to be the oracle of horsey knowledge! thanku
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i have spent nearly ten years judging and so far no one has offered me a bean. as i am a poor student now i suppose i could be bought....do you have brad pitts number by chance? that would get you ahead of laura collet at least!
 
Well if you realise it's me next time I go up the centre line (or round the arena) I will swiftly summon a large bottle of vino to help u with ur judging! That way any male rider will appear to be Brad Pitt!! How does that sound?!
Do u know where you have seen me? out of interest
 
i actually cant remember exactly but i always notice your name as i met some irish types and always wonder if you are related. and i do loads of shows in the south and southwest. oh and i dont drink wine but even if i did drink loads, matt wright will never look like brad pitt ........
 
hahaha PMSL i dont think all the alcohol in the WORLD could do that!
my name comes from Ireland at a place called Kinsale, apparantly, but my dad is from Lancashire so Im not sure how we got it...
 
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however it has rained torentially there again today so by the time she goes on her second the ground will be foul so sadly i think the odds against her.

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It was hardly torrential. We had one very heavy shower and then was a bit drizzly as we were leaving but that's about it. And the forecast for the rest of the weekend is good.
 
the message i got from the course at lunch time re the amount of rain cannot be repeated on this forum and it hasnt stopped drizzling since. have you joined the BBs 'its all perfect here' club? the rain is not due to completely be gone til early morning. at one point the met office had a severe weather warning over the area. it has been raining for a month. one nice day tommorow is not going to prevent the course from being 'holding' or 'good to soft' to use the racing terms.
One competitor told a friend the place looked worse than blair and burghley after the events. I hear lucinda green reckoned they would be better off having a plouging contest. another rider and BE accredited trainer after walking yesterday said the course was wet although better than he expected AS LONG AS IT DIDNT rain again friday. another aquaintance spent hours sitting in the traffic because the roads were so congested because of having to drag the spectators cars in meant Blenheims usuallly efficient traffic system was at best stretched.
anyone who thinks tommorow will not be a slog is somewhat mistaken otherwise there would have been no need for eric winter to adjust the course, now would there? I have a meeting there tommorow (which i have been trying to cancel) so i shall see for myself but at this moment i know who i believe.
Frankly i have no interest in watching when luck will start to play as much part as good riding and horsemanship. and if the course has had to be softened to accomodate the ground then is it really a 3*** and are those who complete really truly qualifiied for the next level? there will be horses and riders here who could be at badminton in the spring having barely jumped a decent three star.
i know how much work goes into organing and running an event probably better than a great many people, and i think its fair to say that once at an event most of the riders prefer to run and complete than abandon (because of the money issue) but sometimes you just have to bite the bullet.
it seems to me that burghley could have had a much less happy ending than it did, as much because of the ground as anything and the riders and horses at a 4**** should be wiser and more experienced than many of those in woodstock.
in 2007 Hugh Thomas was slaughtered at badminton for running as planned and ignoring the very dry weather which made the course like the road.is extreme wet weather different? Do we have to get to the point that the emergency services actually cant get on the course before the other extreme of the weather means cancelling.
and if an event is to go ahead, could we just tell it like it is so that the potentially life threatening danger the riders put themselves and their horses through, so we can have a spectacle (and some shopping) is a little more apprieciated.
thats what has been vexing me sunflower, not blenheim per see but sadly certain people have had trouble grasping that.
 
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