We had a great day at Burnham Market today, quite unexpectedly Grafennacht pulled it off to win the Advanced, my first in quite a time.  She led the dressage on a score of 24 with a very nice test, it wasn't perfect but it was pretty good.  I was very pleased, she was very accomplished and relaxed, and she was in a very good frame of mind. In the show jumping - s...

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We have been at Thoresby for the Advanced these couple of days.  Grafennacht was really good I was very pleased with her dressage, she scored 28.  She got a bit stuck in the mud, broke into canter so lost a few marks for that, her pirouette was slightly stilted but other than that she was super and she lay in 3rd place overnight.  Today she jumped a super double clear.&nb...

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Thanks to Tweseldown we were very lucky that our season got off to a start following the cancellation of Cirencester.  I don't know how Rachel and her team managed to put a day like that together, with a terrific course, in under two weeks - quite a feat.   My day started off with four in the Novice and they all jumped a double clear, which is a huge credit to my home te...

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From Maryland it was straight down to Santiago, Chile for the Pan American Games with team Brazil.   I knew it was going to be quite a tense week as we needed to get our Olympic qualification.  Whilst the team was more than capable of this, you never know what happens with silly errors and lame horses (as happened with the Japanese in Millstreet).    The horses travelled ov...

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