Are you booked into our COACHING DEMO and YARD OPEN AFTERNOON?The Eventing Club are coming to Wood Lane Stables, Dorset on Wednesday 8th April, where William Fox-Pitt will give a talk on how this new chapter of his life is progressing, followed by a coaching demo with a few of the up and coming riders based at Wood Lane Stables, giving an insight into to his training methods.It will be an in...

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Guto and I travelled to Thoresby with a horse each - Guto in the 2* short with NOTORIOUS LENNON and myself in the ON with CUSCO. I was looking to give CUSCO a good run before Chloe takes over the reins next weekend at Larkhill.   CUSCO started with a very decent dressage, he made no mistakes and I was very pleased with the test and the score of 26. Showjumping provided a good track, up to h...

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Tweseldown - Training event   I have just completed my 41st Tweseldown event!   All went fine, and the horses were good.  I rode Cusco in the Novice and Princess in the 100, and all went well.  Guto de Faria had his first event in 22 years and the first for this year in the UK.  He had Usain Colt and Notorious Lennon in the 100 and both went great.  Shel...

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Hussard Brun went really well in the racehorse class, he gave me a great cross country ride and made it feel very easy.  Obviously the jockey was slightly on go-slow and ended up with a time fault, but he felt very good.  He has moved up one place to 17th so not very excited about the result.   Then I rode Hardingville Lagoon in the 2* show jumping, he jumped a lovely clear and ju...

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I started off with Hardingville Lagoon and he did a very pleasing test for his first time in a big arena doing the 2* and he scored 32, and I think he is in some lower placing.  We had a couple of little mistakes but I was very happy with how he went.   Then was Hussard Brun in the Thoroughbred Racehorse class, he was a very good boy and I was delighted with him.  I was amazed how...

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