Laura Collett and My Mexico : Aston Le Walls{Intermediate} could just spoil your day!

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Dressage - 34.1
SJ - 16 faults
XC - Clear, 9.6 time
Position - 22nd out of 44

Dressage was overall a nice test; presenting a nice picture with relaxed and fluid movement mostly through out. It was just spoilt by a few of his transitions and some resistance in the rein. Mexico never achieves great marks for his medium trot or canter, as they are not yet fully established. This therefore means that you know his mark will be affected by this before you even go into the arena.

SJ was...... interesting! Safe to say he was pretty awful, and it was probably the worst round he has ever done. Mexico is not a particularly strong show jumper and finds XC far more exciting. It didn't help that the fences were all close together and constructed of light thin poles, which fell pretty easily. To be far to him though he hasn't been out competing since Salperton, which is almost 4 weeks ago. Mexico is a laid back horse by nature, but he was extra lazy in all three phases. On the plus side there were only 7 clears out of 44.

As he had 4 fences down in the SJ Mexico was definitely out of the placings. Laura took him steady XC picking up 9.6 time penalties. Also what was rather interesting is it was the first time Mexico has ever looked at something XC {see video}. He is bold and straight forward XC so it didn't cause him too many problems, and was far smaller than his first Intermediate that he did at Salperton, where it was HUGE!

Mexico's next event should hopefully be Somerford Park Intermediate on 22nd August, where Matthew Wright will be riding him.

A rather amusing comment made by the XC commentator {listen on video, it's the way it is said that makes me smile}

"When walking the course please do listen out for the fence judge's whistle that is blow with vigor to warn you of approaching horses. Horses traveling of upwards of 20-25mph, one of those running into you could just spoil your day!".

Video below......

http://www.jcbeventing.com/news.html

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How come matthew wright is going to be riding him? good DR score though, shame about the SJ!

eta - loving the music!
 
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I think I saw you a few times yest! Were you in the food tent when it reined trying to order a bacon and sausage roll?? With a yellow lab?? Umm my sj was interesting as well! Thought they were huge. And another why is matt riding him??

Well done and maybe see you at Sommerford
 
Going to Matt to be sold. That was me in the food tent with the white fluffy puppy! I saw you come out the SJ as well {didn't look too happy}, which is pretty obvious.

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You'll find it harder selling him through Matt. I talk from experience no one would touch my horse after it went to him and it was winning everytime out at novice and intermediate. Also i wouldnt agree with his methods of making horses jump! Wouldnt recommend it!
 
Lace57 said:
You'll find it harder selling him through Matt. I talk from experience no one would touch my horse after it went to him and it was winning everytime out at novice and intermediate. Also i wouldnt agree with his methods of making horses jump! Wouldnt recommend it!
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Ummmmmm! lol

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I was there yesterday, and the sj was causing a lot of poles to go flying. Felt sorry for the two young girls who were having to pick the poles up everytime!

Thought it was a really nice xc, looked a lot smaller then Tweseldown which was a very nice suprise!

I saw your horse when I was walking the xc he looked fab.
 
Lace57 said:
You'll find it harder selling him through Matt. I talk from experience no one would touch my horse after it went to him and it was winning everytime out at novice and intermediate. Also i wouldnt agree with his methods of making horses jump! Wouldnt recommend it!
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I agree I'd never send a horse to him, he's hard on them and I don't like how he rides them
 
I think he did alright. A little lazy SJ, but really locked on xc. Lovely horse that just needs more miles at that level.

As for sending him to MW, fine if he is going to be sold to a pro - will he go all the way?? but sadly an amateur won't buy off him or be able to ride him, once he's been there. Only my opinion, but wouldn't be my choice. Good luck with what you decide.
 
He is going to Matt to be sold as he has far more clients looking for horses, and is well known for selling horses as well. It was suggested to us {not our idea} as we need to sell him by the end of the season. We have not moved him from Laura for Matt to have the ride, but purely for sale purposes.

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Why can't Laura sell him for you? He may be harder to sell after he's been to Matthew. If he's good enough he should sell from laura's yard. if you have to send him to a 'pro' to sell then I could think of others who'd be preferable to Matthew, sorry.
 
Frankly its none of our business what someone does with their horse! This is the type of thing that makes me so cross about the forum. By all means PM the Op about your OWN PERSONAL experiences rather than hearsay but do not state all this publicly. There will be reasons that this is happening which are all going on behind the scenes.
 
LEC said:
Frankly its none of our business what someone does with their horse! This is the type of thing that makes me so cross about the forum. By all means PM the Op about your OWN PERSONAL experiences rather than hearsay but do not state all this publicly. There will be reasons that this is happening which are all going on behind the scenes.
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Well said LEC - couldn't agree more.
 
LEC said:
Frankly its none of our business what someone does with their horse! This is the type of thing that makes me so cross about the forum. By all means PM the Op about your OWN PERSONAL experiences rather than hearsay but do not state all this publicly. There will be reasons that this is happening which are all going on behind the scenes.
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What I've been thinking all day but couldn't quite be bothered to get off my &rse to say.
 
Another one who agrees 100% with LEC.Good luck with the sale of your horse-he's a nice horse and I am sure he'll find a home quickly.
 
LEC said:
Frankly its none of our business what someone does with their horse! This is the type of thing that makes me so cross about the forum. By all means PM the Op about your OWN PERSONAL experiences rather than hearsay but do not state all this publicly. There will be reasons that this is happening which are all going on behind the scenes.
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I think people have been giving opinions from their own experience and just trying to give helpful advice.
 
LEC said:
Frankly its none of our business what someone does with their horse! This is the type of thing that makes me so cross about the forum. By all means PM the Op about your OWN PERSONAL experiences rather than hearsay but do not state all this publicly. There will be reasons that this is happening which are all going on behind the scenes.
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True, but jonny did post it on a public forum, so it's not too surprising how the thread has gone is it?:confused: It's such a shame that it seems we are more likely to be negative than positive on these occasions - or is that just from my perspective - and so publicly too.:( I'm sure Sharon Hunt would agree.;)
 
kathleen57 said:
I think people have been giving opinions from their own experience and just trying to give helpful advice.
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Yes I'm sure they are but the OP had written a factual report of how his horse went at an event. He didn't ask for advice about who should ride it and how/where/why it should be sold (with the greatest respect to the OP, I'm guessing it's not actually his decision anyway - apologies if I've misunderstood the situation).

It's sad that, once again, some users think it's appropriate to publicly comment (in quite a derogatory fashion in some cases) about individuals.

I echo Baydale - I'm sure Sharon Hunt would agree ;)
 
On HQ there is a Ruth Edge horse who has just been sold very quickly by Matthew Wright.
 
"Frankly its none of our business what someone does with their horse! This is the type of thing that makes me so cross about the forum. By all means PM the Op about your OWN PERSONAL experiences rather than hearsay but do not state all this publicly. There will be reasons that this is happening which are all going on behind the scenes"

Thanks for that comment, I was sort of thinking the same thing! lol...... perhaps I shouldn't have mentioned it, but it was purely a factual comment that many people would have found out anyway. What's there to hide?

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