Saumur and Badders v. close?

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Am I the only one wondering at some of the horses running at Saumur after doing badders xc less than two weeks before? Seems a lot to me?
 
None of them got round Badders though, so they didnt have a full run. Silly to have a really fit horse and not go somewhere......
 
Out of the horses running, none of them will have completed Badminton. In the quest for qualifications, they went to Saumur, having retired on the xc. I cant imagine getting half way round the course before calling it a day due to a harmless rider fall or run out, and then going somewhere else, would cause any problems. Obviously a horse that got all the way round, only to be slightly stiff and unable to SJ the next day, would be very unlikely to come back out again so quickly. Most successful Badminton horses will be in their field, and brought back into work for Barbury etc at the beginning of July.
 
There were also horses at Chatsworth last weekend doing the 3* which didn't get round the XC at Badminton (and one of them was 2nd in the world cup qaulifier...). As Boss said, silly to have a fit horse and not go somewhere... and with it being a less difficult track might even be a good confidence building run whilst the Badminton mistakes are still fresh in the horse's mind.

 
the horse that was second made it to fence 4 so you can see why pippa would have wanted to get him straight back out somewhere else.
 
I thought it was an excellent plan, and the sort of thing I would do after a 'blip' (albeit at a lower level
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