Weston Park

It was a very good cross country day all round at Weston Park yesterday. 

Soltaire Justice was comfortably inside the time in the CCI* to move up to 16^th place.  The 1* is unbelievably tight with the top 33 horses being under 60 penalties apart and the show jumping here is always very influential.

In the CCI** Before Time made very light work of the cross country to finish nicely inside the time to move up to 8^th .  He has now had a lot of intermediate  experience and made the course feel very easy.  Freddie Mac however has had much less experience with only four intermediate runs under his belt so I was delighted with the ride he gave me.  He felt happy and full of confidence, also finishing full if running.  He has moved up to 2^nd pace and with the top four scores tightly bunched the show jumping later this afternoon will be exciting!

Tom Grant, who is a working pupil with me, went superbly across country in his first CCI2* to move into 2nd place in the under 21 section.  He had done a decent dressage of 47 on Friday, which was a personal best, so I am hoping the show jumping goes well for him today.