Little Downham
4 th
Advanced
01. Pippa Funnell
onMCS Maverick
SIRE
DAM
SIRE OF DAM
What fun in the sun. Three great spins XC.
Billy Wonder excelled in his 4star dressage and generally very happy how he stepped up to this level despite a silly glance off but the further he went on the XC the better he got.
Maverick was class in the jumping phases but work on going in the first phase, if the dressage test could be changed to jog at C and jog pirouettes we would have done a good test.
🐿️ Grafton Street was the best he has been in all three phases for 5th. The old girl was never going to be as quick as Laura and Oliver but I certainly wasn’t slow, the ride ability was so much better, bottle of gin required for his wonderful owners Jonathan and Jane Clarke for their patience. Big pats all round.
This is why I am still bitten by the bug. Four really super confident filling Cross Country runs where I felt the horses were eating it up with such enthusiasm.
Billy Walk On 2nd in the Advanced having his final Badminton prep run.
Grafton Street delighted me in all three phases particularly show jumping clear and going into xc in pole position but me being me wanted to work on the control which was greatly improved. Really enjoying getting to know MCS Maverick he gives a really classy feel and his brain is definitely relaxing 🤞watch this space and Billy Wonder was really cool in his first run.
Fun fun fun!!!
Great work from Alec Lahore and his team and huge amount of volunteers, thank heavens the sun came out.
Great job by my girlies Emily and Lily.
A good solid start to my 2023 season at Poplar Park today. I said to Emily and Lily as we drove in that I first competed at Poplar some 38 years ago 🙈👵🏻. It’s a wonderful event to have at the start of the season always on exceptional ground.
Billy Walk On, Majas Hope and MCS Maverick
(Feale, Hope and Eric to their friends) all posting double clears so Jockey feeling very happy.
It was great to do my first Event with Eric who is all class, like a Ferrari, just work in progress being done to get this seriously talented boy to relax and slow his brain down.
Feale and Hope weren’t so sure about being got out of bed so early like their jockey but by the time they arrived they certainly had got their enthusiasm up luckily so had the jockey.