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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It was fantastic to finish second at Maryland with Grafennacht.  She jumped a really good round and was so nearly clear. , but how oftend o we say that....   She felt fantastic after cross country, trotted up well, and has come out of the event looking like she has done nothing.  As usual there are plenty of ifs, buts and maybes, but to finish second is a big thrill for the team. ...

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I was delighted with Grafennacht, she was pure class.  Everyone talked about the course riding really big and I have got to say it really didn’t. She jumped round for fun.  We had a frustratingly long hold, which was obviously not good for our rythymn, but the other half of the run was perfect.  I also annoyingly ended up with time faults but I was pretty sure w...

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I am very pleased with Lillie today, she did a very good test, and was very composed. She was quite excited and quite forward going, so did well to contain herself. There were a couple of things obviously which could have been better, as always, but she is up there and she has got every chance.   The cross country course is quite big and demanding and has a couple of questions.  Sh...

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We had a very much a 'work in progress day', not a glossy glorious day.     Dressage was pretty good, Santini scored 29, Cusco got 24, both were in the lead at some point.  Bruno was on 30, and he was also quite in contention.   The Show jumping was a bit mixed.  Santini rolled some poles and jumped well but was a little bit lowere than I would have liked over som...

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