Cheshire Chestnut
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Poor Mark Todd.
Oliver Townend - cracking run was so fun to watch!
Oliver Townend - cracking run was so fun to watch!
You can do it with the right buggy! I have the "Out n About" little nipper and I take it everywhere off road and it's great. Managed Glastonbury with it anyway!Getting all excited abt eventing (with no previous experience really at all)... I take it that taking a child's buggy around Burghley (next year, obvs, and assuming weather good) is over-ambitious? Thinking of the terrain/Saturday crowds if we wanted to take the day going very slowly around the course... Not sure I can drag the little one without yet although might get lucky...
Fab competition, so much better than the Europeans. This is what top class eventing is all about, a true test without tricking the horses.
So pleased for Oli.
Does anyone know what the noseband thing some of the American riders were using in the x-c is called? Looked like a sort of extension to a cavesson so that added on a drop? Assume it is sort of like the action of a drop but not sure why they still need the cavesson part?
Oh, and one more novice question... is it the local hunt who you see spectating around the xc course on horse back? Are they stewarding too?
It was certainly a very different watch to the European course. I think we may have seen the next world champion event horse in Tom McEwen's horse.
Badminton hunt riders seem to do more score collecting, burghley do off course escorts, particularly if you have a crowd in the way, Mark todd got an escort through the leaf pit area with his remaining bridle! Given that the fitzwilliam paraded hounds I presume it is them