Ben Way’s Burghley blog: I need to change my name from Ben to Bettina
Shadowfax (Faxy)
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Onto my dressage test today with Galley Light. Well, f*****g dressage! I was really pleased with the majority of his work. He dropped behind my leg in the last part of the canter work so we properly fluffed the last two flying-changes, which was very expensive. The rest of his work was a huge improvement on last year. There has been a notable variance in some of the marks, and the judge at C was not my biggest fan! I think I need to change my name from Ben to Bettina!
Walking round the cross-country course, it’s very much ‘Burghley’. The Cottesmore Leap gets no smaller nor does the drop at the Leaf Pit! I think that the Dairy Mound is going to be this year’s very influential fence. It’s one of those that you walk up and think why would would a horse go and jump that or you? Saturday is going to be interesting…!
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