How is Lucy after her dressage? Delighted! He put his best foot forward and Im pretty pleased with the result. Some horses seem to freeze a little bit, my horse didn’t. We are so spoiled with our NZ Equestrian Federation support. I trained with Jill Watson for 20 years which is embarrassing to admit for both of us. Then in addition to her coaching and mentoring, with the Federation’s funding, Erik Duvander has helped me get some coaching with Andrew Fletcher, he is a pure dressage rider and certainly now in this sport you are not in gold medal position on 70%. We were both a tiny little bit frustrated by the tiny mistakes but this is my best four star score by a long shot and so now, look out as hopefully there is more to come.” XC: “I am hoping that Badminton was the best preparation possible. Badminton was huge and very wet. He wouldn’t be the fastest horse on four legs but he just at Badminton set out on a beautiful rhythm and tackled everything really well. That is my intention on Saturday, just go out and repeat that. There were a few times at Badminton, having watched my video, where I could make up time without hurrying him, by moving away quicker from some fences so I intend to catch up a bit of the time. He is a very scopey, luckily as its massive. He’s got a huge stride, luckily as it is a really long way, and he doesn’t mind the deep, luckily, as it is quite deep. Will the time (11 min 30 sec) be difficult? “Yes! It will be difficult particularly for the guys at the beginning is no one is really sure how they are going to come home. The guys who set out for the time might not have enough horse. There is plenty of jumping, right through to the last fence which is a big fence. We are not really sure how they are going to feel on this footing. Thank goodness I am 49th to run so I can have a look at how the fences are riding, how the ground is riding and how they are pulling up so I can work out what sort of pace to set out with. I am absolutely delighted to be part of the kiwi team. There couldnt be a better bunch of guys to be with. You grow up with these guys as your heroes, with posters on your wall at school and here you are, running alongside them. They are very supportive, very focused, they are out there to win but they are equally happy to support us in our endeavours to try to beat them.” Well done Lucy, that was a great test. Good luck for the rest of the competition.
Posted on: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 08:53:55 +0000
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