Young rider team gold medalist Georgie Spence, 18, enjoyed her first advanced win at the Easco Burnham Market Horse Trials (15-17 September), riding Trenear. Georgie also finished fifth on Song For Gull.
Oliver Townend had lead after dressage on Opposition Alex, but the pair dropped below Georgie and Trenear after a slower cross-country time. Four of Oli’s five rides in the advanced class finished in the top eight.
Piggy French notched up two intermediate wins. She took section K with Royal Crown and then did a one-two in the open intermediate with Cast Away II and Chase The Moon. Henry Dove, 25, was delighted to finish second to Piggy in section K with Claire Cooke’s That’s My Louis.
Jeanette Brakewell claimed the third intermediate section (J) with Hartpury College’s stallion Take It 2 The Limit (pictured above). Local rider Lucy Wagg took second place behind Jeanette on her 15.1hh skewbald mare Wigwam.
Read this report in full, plus reports from other top events in Britain and Ireland, in today’s Horse & Hound (27 September, ’07)
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