Good luck to everyone eventing

[Thistle]

I won't be joining you for a while but will enjoy reading the reports and looking at the photos!

 

[Sarah_Jane]

I won't be joining you for a while but will enjoy reading the reports and looking at the photos!

Ditto

 

[Holidays_are_coming]

Ditto x

 

[Rosiefan]

Thank you all. We're as ready as we'll ever be but will definitely need all the luck we can get. I'm expecting tension and disobedience in the tests, poles flying in the SJ and timefaults (probably too fast) in the XC - good job it's Rosie riding and not me

 

[Thistle]

Just don't forget the camera.

I did think about going to Isleham to watch tomorrow (It is our closest event) but then I saw the weather forecast.

Rosiefan, it is lovely to see Bertie on the entry lists again

 

[Santa_Claus]

Yes good luck all. I have to wait another five weeks for my turn boooo

 

[BroadfordQueen]

Thanks, and yes good luck to everyone else eventing today!
I am just desperately hoping the weather forecast is very wrong for tomorrow- please can everyone do the sunshine dance?!

 

[kerilli]

ditto, good luck everyone!

 

[angelish]

Ditto
Good luck everyone

 

[Rosiefan]

Thanks, and yes good luck to everyone else eventing today!
I am just desperately hoping the weather forecast is very wrong for tomorrow- please can everyone do the sunshine dance?!

hear hear - the forecast for Isleham is getting worse by the hour

 

[quizzie]

hear hear - the forecast for Isleham is getting worse by the hour

Repeat after me.....it will not rain that hard...and not all day......please!!!

But seriously, having not been to Isleham before, can anyone tell me what the ground tends to get like if we do get the heavy rain forecast? Thanks.

 

[Mbronze]

Good luck everyone, cant wait to join you all

 

[Rosiefan]

Repeat after me.....it will not rain that hard...and not all day......please!!!

But seriously, having not been to Isleham before, can anyone tell me what the ground tends to get like if we do get the heavy rain forecast? Thanks.

It's good old black fen soil so won't get sticky and holding, just very sloshy and you, the horse and tack, the lorry and all us spectators will go home covered in it. This is par for the course at Isleham though.
Good luck .

 

[Laafet]

Just got back from Isleham, the course looks really nice and inviting, even I would do the BE100. Some of the I fences are a bit :-O but I'm nowhere near that standard so no wonder! It has got a bit less breezy and wet and now brightening up.

 

[Hattikins]

Good Luck everyone! Hope you all have a successful and fun weekend!

 

[Thistle]

The Isleham soil will take a deluge and still give ok going

 

[Rosiefan]

Just don't forget the camera.

I did think about going to Isleham to watch tomorrow (It is our closest event) but then I saw the weather forecast.

Rosiefan, it is lovely to see Bertie on the entry lists again

Only just noticed this post M - sorry . Camera is fully charged and ready to go but if the forecast is accurate it may stay in it's bag.
We're excited that Bertie is eventing again and hopeful that his tendon is fully recovered. Apparently he was a lunatic yesterday when they were running through the test in the school. He'd been SJing the day before (DC and 2nd in the Disco and 2nd to Bolly in the 1.05 at Newton Hall) and had a romp in the field afterwards so goodness knows what his DR will be like tomorrow <sigh>.
No matter - we intend to enjoy ourselves whatever happens. Rosie has packed a change of clothes including underwear so at least she won't have to strip off and wrap herself in a blanket for the drive home as has happened before .