Gatcombe Intermediate

Brilliant result, well done and on upgrading too: very special moment, hope you had/have a huge measure of whatever is your tipple
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Taking a horse from N to A is a huge achievement, look forward to more reports like this one! We were there and ran earlier on Sun, the conditions were really testing, I was looking for excuses to withdraw
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And that drop into the woods is huge, jumped it 2 years ago in the 2* and walked it this time - it hasn't got any smaller
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Yeah, I remember that - landed in trot
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so felt really easy, but my horse was so bold I could come in really precious (and I did
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) and he would still go - I remember Louisa Lockwood's putting in a really dirty stop and her sailing over the drop!

I had 2 embarassing runouts, one at the treble early on (rolltop brush rolltop) where I completely stuffed up my line and one at the brush corners where I - er... - completely stuffed up my line
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I did dressage on the Fri then helped run Monmouth ODE on the Sat, ran early on Sun morning without walking the course again and was too kna**ered to do a decent job. Still, it was just a warm-up for Kreuth a couple of weeks later really so didn't matter (and I did a bit better job there
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Just realised you probably meant how did I get on this time
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In which case, horse completely blew in dressage on Fri to get a 67
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then had first SJ down then clear, lovely clear XC but slow as nothing left to gallop for really... Pleased though as it's his first season eventing so he's come a long way in a short time
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SJ sorry to have missed you, dad was a bit off with me retiring so made a hasty exit, the photos are fab, I'm gutted to have missed Sarnita.
The SJ warm up really was a mud bath, Saf is top of the ground horse too and was so surprised how she jumped out of it too
Huge well done to you and your advanced mare WOW
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Yay, fantastic day, especially with upgrading. Make sure you drop "my advanced horse" into the conversation as often as you can, I have been.
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Btw Hector said he'd rather like Sarnie as his girlfriend, if that's ok with her.
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Match made in heaven I reckon
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. Mind you he might find her a bit demanding and full of her own importance
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Advanced mare sounds good and will sound good if she ever has babies too
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What can I say - I can't add much to all the comments above. Fabulous result! Guess we won't be seeing you out at Int's next season after all!
 
S-J just loved your gg, shame she couldn't fit into my car as you wouldn't have seen her for dust!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You so maded me laugh after you lovely CLEAR sj round at UBA UBA HUGE (last 3 fences where up to height), the riders comment 'OO i couldn't see a stride, i ride so cr*p!!!', ER sorry sweetie i think your record speaks volumes
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and i loved your round beautiful to watch
As for xc phase she was AWESOME, it was an education walking that course, i did really think one fence was very scary and your relpy was champion 'Thats ok, i did that last year!!!!'

And you walked and picked great line through water knowing you would have knitting issue!!!! but you did ride it much better than WFP as he was lucky to get away which doing 31/2 strides between elements
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Thanks for day really fun day as did really enjoy and your girl is so easy and chilled to do. And even better that result was brilliant, you were 2nd for so long aswell!!! but 4th was very very impressive tho.

You now know if you need groom in this area again just halo, as we do have a few nice local ones
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What a brilliant result under testing conditions, huge congratulations. Hattikins and I will be at SoE as it's only 10 mins from us. Would love to say Hi and see your gorgeous 'advanced' girlie in action.
 
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