Barbury International HT this week 7/4-7/6

[Regal Grace]

I know some of our riders will be doing their qualifying runs at Barbury. For those interested there is video preview clip of the event on the Barbury website (with a quick interview with Mark Todd) as well as clips from last years. SportTV.uk in the past has posted clips of the competion a few days or week after the event too. Enjoy : )

http://www.barburyhorsetrials.co.uk/

http://www.sportuk.tv/pages/barbury/Barbury-Castle-2008.html

[pwynnnorman]

So we've got Amy (with two), Clark, Karen, Elizabeth Halliday, and Gina in the A section.

[And, of course, my love, Miner's Frolic...:)]

Go USA!!!

[allpurpose]

I was lucky enough to attend this event when I was in England 2 years ago (kinda planned it our vacation around it, actually!). Amy was the only one there from the U.S. at that time, and we cheered our hardest for her! She said she heard us...

It's a cool venue, with the last four jumps taking place in the stadium arena. They gallop down through the vendor fair to get there. That was fun! Also, they have a replica of Stonehenge as one of the jumps, and Nessie, the Loch Ness monster, is in the middle of one of the waters.

Go U.S.A.!

[Foxygrl516]

Are they really having Dressage on Saturday??? The website has dressage times up, and it says they are doing dressage Thurs, fri, and saturday.

Yay for Karen and Mandiba!!!!! And all the other Americans too, of course :)

[Shrapnel]

Go USA!!! :cool:

[blackwly]

I was marveling at how they have the exact same dolphin-in-the-water jump as we have at Red Hills until I realized CMP is the course designer at Barbury. You can certainly appreciate his love of the carved animals on that course!

[bornfreenowexpensive]

Interesting...if I followed the schedule correctly, the CIC*** does dressage on Thurs-Friday, show jumps in the morning on Sunday and does xc in the afternoon. Looks like a beautiful venue...and a very big event! Hope everyone does well!

[pwynnnorman]

Wow, Headly Britannia with a 30.8. Not bad for a little chestnut who's not the world's greatest mover! Those Fredericks are sure hot.

Anyone know if that "Before I Do It" in Section B is the sibling of "Better I Do It"? I remember there were two of them.

[nature]

I was marveling at how they have the exact same dolphin-in-the-water jump as we have at Red Hills until I realized CMP is the course designer at Barbury. You can certainly appreciate his love of the carved animals on that course!

From the webpage of Barbury HT

"The CIC*** course:
There are going to be major changes made to the course in 2008 which will aim to make it horse friendly and provide a flowing run."

Interesting.............................

but good to see!

[Shrapnel]

Gina Miles is our best placed rider in 20th place on a 46. Then comes Amy Tryon and Poggio tied for 26th on a 47.7.

Karen O'Connor and Mandiba are tied for 34th on a 50.8.

Clark Montgomery and Upspirit are tied for 37th on a 51.

Amy Tryon's other horse, Leyland, is tied for 55th place on a 55.2.

105 riders completed the dressage phase.

[Carol Ames]

105 riders!?;:eek: how long will the XC run?

[Carol Ames]

Does anyone know if the BBC is covering this?

[Badger]

Results after dressage and SJ, x-c still to run this afternoon:

1 HEADLEY BRITANNIA (AUS) Fredericks, Lucinda 30.8 0/0 30.8
2 BEN ALONG TIME (AUS) Fredericks, Clayton 32.5 0/0 32.5
3 PARKMORE ED (GBR) Fox-Pitt, William 37.3 0/0 37.3
4 BALLINCOOLA (GBR) Fox-Pitt, William 39.4 0/0 39.4
5 TAMARILLO (GBR) Fox-Pitt, William 40.2 0/0 40.2

10 POGGIO (USA) Tryon, Amy 47.7 0/0 47.7
24 (tie) UP SPIRIT (USA) Montgomery, Clark 51.0 0/0 51.0
30 MCKINLAIGH (USA) Miles, Gina 46.0 8/0 54.0
33 (tie) MANDIBA (USA) O'Connor, Karen 50.8 4/0 54.8
57 LEYLAND (USA) Tryon, Amy 55.2 8/0 63.2
80 RED LETTER DAY II (USA) Halliday, Elisabeth 64.2 8/0 72.2

[gully's pilot]

Final placings:

Poggion 10th
Up Spirit t-24th
McKinleigh 30th
Mandiba t33rd

Out of 94th that completed all three phases...

[Badger]

Gully's Pilot: Are you sure those are final results? I think that is just the dressage+stadium results. I can't find x-c results reported yet, and they were running x-c AFTER stadium on Sunday.

[blackwly]

anyone got the link for the final results? I can't find it...

[Badger]

Either it is a combined test, or no x-c results have been posted yet. I did a search for Fox-Pitt, and none of his Section A horses (the three-star) are showing x-c results. The five horses he's showing in lower divisions all show results for all three phases.

Got to be getting to the end of the show day, though....

[gully's pilot]

I saw a list that had final placings--at least I think...

[Badger]

They just posted final results after x-c.

Gina finishes 22 with 19.2 time.
Amy/Poggio finish 30th with 31.6 time.
Karen finishes 32nd with 26.4 time.
Amy/Leland finish 50th with 32 time.
Clark finished 59th with 20 jump and 31.6 time.
Elizabeth finished 61st with 32.8 time.

Mark Todd and Gandolf had 20 jump penalties. So did Mary King on Imperial Cavalier.
71 finished and everyone had time.

[snoopy]

small fish in a big pond.....a real eye opener for sure.

[4Martini]

Can some of the single girls/ guys on the board quickly marry us a team :lol:

There's got to be a few single riders in the top 20 that want to go to the olympics.

[Shrapnel]

Well..It looks like most of our riders had a nice outing.

Poor Clark :(. I doubt the selectors will forgive him for the 20 penalties he had, but we'll see...If his horse stays sound and the others don't then who knows...

I also really doubt the selectors will care much about the time faults -- even if they did have a lot. Amy had about 30 time faults two years ago at Barbury before she went to the WEG and jumped a double clear XC to win the individual bronze, so I don't think time faults will matter much at Barbury.

Looks like Karen, Amy and Gina all had nice solid rides. Interesting that Gina's horse pulled 2 rails. I would have put money on him jumping a clear in SJ.

Well...less than a week until The Fork...