Upton House

Our last outing was to Upton House in Oxfordshire. The event is set in beautiful surroundings and is definitely worth a visit. The ground had had a lot of work done on it for which all event riders are grateful.

First on was Wally (Wanadoo Too) in the BE100. He performed a lovely test as usual, sadly the judge needed a visit to specsavers-enough said. Wally went on to jump a lovely double clear albeit slowly as there was no point pushing him following the dressage mark. He has made great progress and hopefully this will continue to be the case. 



Photo's courtesy of first photography

Next up was Rosie (Pencarder Silver Storm) she performed an ok test which I felt was a little harshly marked for 40.5, she is back to her usual consistent self and jumped a beautiful double clear finishing just outside the placings with a couple of time faults.

Finally Stanley was on, he did a sweet test but is still a little green, scoring 38. He jumped well, I had one down and he brushed one so had 8 faults but jumped well. Xc he had a very green look at the water at fence 4 which took him by surprise, but other than that he was great and seems to be comfortable at this level. Netx outing is at Smiths Lawn at the beginning of August.