Hickstead Derby - BBC2

[Puppy]

Or not!

 

[clairel]

Such a shame, jumped all the difficult fences beautifully!

 

[H's mum]

LOL! Amage! Like that

Kate x

 

[CorvusCorax]

Super-Geoff....

 

[jenbleep]

I love Geoff! Whoo go big G

 

[Eira]

Go Geoff
Go Geoff
Go Geoff

 

[xspiralx]

What a shame, he rode such a beautiful round. Lovely light hands.

 

[FairyCakes]

Come on Geoff!

 

[Dottie]

YAY! Come on Geoff!!

 

[CorvusCorax]

Haha - close! Spitalfield is a market too so I am half right

 

[FairyCakes]

Damn

 

[jenbleep]

AGH!! Come on G no more

 

[jenbleep]

Ahhhhhhhhhh

 

[FairyCakes]

Ellen Ellen!

 

[jenbleep]

Love this horse! She looks difficult though....!

 

[annret]

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Horse is called Spitfield!!! He came out of Smithfield market in dublin and that is what they wanted to register him as but the registration papers were misread and he was named Spitfield!!! very difficult ride...you would not believe how easy she makes him look...and she is tiny!! woohoo delighted for her

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Thanks for this little tit-bit; I manage to make my easy-as-pie donk look like a dragon to ride so will always be in awe of these fabulous riders...However, he's going in my little notebook of famous horses I love so when I decide to breed from mine I can find the most popular common bloodlines

shame I'm blatantly going to produce something too sharp for me to ride

 

[Embob1]

This horse has a massive jump

Going for clear maybe?

 

[CorvusCorax]

Jeez she is giving them some room. She is mahoosive.

 

[Puppy]

I wouldn't like to put this horse at the bank...!!

 

[CorvusCorax]

Dammit.

 

[Eira]

Whooops

 

[jenbleep]

Oh dear.....jumping so well up until that point!

 

[FairyCakes]

Ohhh dear, she isnt happpy, well neither of them are tbh!

 

[weevil]

Oh Dear, toys flying out of prams all over the place...

 

[Dottie]

Hmmm, thats it, spurs in

 

[H's mum]

LOL!
I wouldn't get my whip out on top of that bank!

Kate x

 

[Puppy]

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Ohhh dear, she isnt happpy, well neither of them are tbh!

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And it showed! She didn't seem to encourage the mare to settle coming out of the ring...

Quite the opposite...

 

[FairyCakes]

Unlucky :/

 

[FairyCakes]

I know! The mare isnt going to want to jump it next year if she comes back is she! Associate it with being stabbed in the belly!

 

[Puppy]

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LOL!
I wouldn't get my whip out on top of that bank!

Kate x

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It did develop into a bit of 'pony-club-petulance' I thought...

Some of the other riders got their horses down there so nicely too!