‘I feel like a kid waiting for Christmas’: catch up with champs blogger Laura Szuca for the final time before the event

With a matter of days until the inaugural Horse & Hound Grassroots Eventing Championships we catch up with champs contender Laura Szuca for the last time before she heads off to Keysoe:

Well, it’s not long now! I feel like a kid waiting for Christmas… I’m counting down the days to the event, but as I write this I can now say that the Horse & Hound unaffiliated Grassroots Eventing Championship at Keysoe is happening this week!

Earlier this week Equo Events sent us all of the information we need for the event, and even just reading it I got super-excited. My niece was particularly excited to hear that there are prizes for the best turned out horse at the trot up on Monday morning, and plans to get up super early to get Mikey looking spick and span in an attempt to win. I’ve told her that if he does win she can keep the prizes – but I might live to regret that!

Over the weekend we headed out for some arena eventing, and after a tough cross-country schooling session last week I have to say that I was feeling the pressure a bit. Last week I purchased a new flappy whip and some sound proof ears to try and see if they would help Mikey be a bit more on his “A” game. I’m not holding my breath just yet but he seemed much more willing to listen to me and less worried about what was going on around him!

We did two rounds, an individual and a pairs, and it was a lovely long flowing course and perfect practise for the cross-country phase (which has always been my nemesis!). I didn’t place in the individual but we managed to bag a second place in the pairs class with my friend Candice and her horse Stu. The most important part for me was having Mikey feel forward and taking me to the fences – and he was!

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