Success at Royal Jump Officiel
We went to get a good result and to prove ourselves at 4*L and by gosh did we do it! To come away with the win was some serious icing on a bloody amazing cake.
I’m so so grateful to Flash Cooley and his enormous heart of absolute gold. He ALWAYS tries his best in everything he does and even though he’s only 15.2hh he just grows everytime he competes - he’s my real life super hero unicorn.
Simply perfect in all 3 phases, he lead from start to finish with a superb FOD. Thank you so much @prudawes7 for your support with this special wonderful little horse. I couldn’t love him anymore 🦄
Cooley Park Muze was utter class in his first 4*L - he performed a beautiful dressage, absolutely cruised around the XC and came out and jumped an unbelievable round for the unluckiest breath on the last fence for 5th place. He really is some talent for the next few years! Thank you to the Rex syndicate for your enthusiasm and support (and bringing more supplies for the very warm humans!!!)
Our two 7yos Chilli’s Joker and Looking Chilli, owned by Chris and Lisa Stone, managed to use some of their brain cells all week for a good qualifying result in their first 2*L. We are starting to think about Le Lion and the exciting future these two both have! They are now exhausted and need a few weeks without me teaching them stuff! 🤣🙈
The week certainly threw some challenges with the weather - hot was an understatement - it was well over 32 degrees everyday with no way of getting out of it - seriously hot stables and no power there but with some great team work fans were rigged up for the horses and with lots of electrolytes and water drunk for humans and horses we managed!🥵
Cannot even begin to tell you how hard our little super hero @georgie_driver worked everyday, 4 horses in a 3 day event on your own was one hell of a mission. What a pint sized machine she is. Thank you. 🙏
Thanks to Gaz for rigging up fans and bringing supplies of water constantly and also driving the truck home when we were all dead to the world 😴
Serious team work really does make the dream work!
