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H&H dressage editor’s Area Festival video diary 2015: time for Tubby bye-bye

Alice Collins Alice Collins
Playlist 19 Videos
Super Sophie bags gala double 01:27
Tales from Hartpury: Five horses and 13 tests — but did this rider remember where to go? 01:04
Winter Dressage Championships day four: one-two for Dujardin 03:43
Tales from Hartpury: the nine-year-old rising star with an Olympic dream 02:35
Sophie Wells' rising star impresses on prix st georges gala night 01:22
Tales from Hartpury: the horse with a rare skin condition that travelled in first gear for six miles 02:02
Winter Dressage Championships day three: former runaway horse shows what she's made of for championship first-timer 03:30
Tales from Hartpury: the event horse making waves in her new career 01:56
Winter Dressage Championships day two: Dujardin wants her rising star's foal for Easter 03:35
Tales from Hartpury: meet the family pony rubbing shoulders with dressage's big guns 01:08
Winter Dressage Championships day one: a shock victory and a horse defies the odds to do a double 04:43
H&H dressage editor’s Area Festival video diary: Disbelieving the results of my small and fairly average horse 05:03
H&H dressage editor’s Area Festival video diary: Playing with the 'proper' horses 04:42
H&H dressage editor’s Area Festival video diary: Interrupted by the Olympic champion 03:36
H&H dressage editor’s Area Festival video diary: A weighbridge, ice cream and escaping 03:55
H&H dressage editor’s Area Festival video diary: Dead sheep and lazy swans 02:35
H&H dressage editor's video diary 2015: the bloopers and the out-takes 01:48
H&H dressage editor’s Area Festival video diary 2015: time for Tubby bye-bye 02:21
H&H dressage editor's Area Festival video diary 2015: 'the championship chop' 03:03

    • Welcome to Horse & Hound's dressage editor Alice Collins' video diary. Alice and 'Fab' have been competing in the Petplan Equine Medium Restricted Area Final at the NAF Five Star British Dressage Winter Dressage Championships

    Alice gives Fab her final Hartpury winter championships breakfast while chewing over Becky Moody’s “inspirational” prix st georges freestyle win on Carinsio from the previous evening.

    She then talks about her future plans with Fab, which include advanced medium – if they can crack the flying changes. Apparently, at the moment, there is “a lot of flying and not all that much changing”. They also hope to go hunting and do some beach rides.

    Alice waves goodbye to Fab (Time for Tubby bye-bye!) as some kindly friends take her home so she can concentrate on doing “some proper work” reporting for Horse & Hound. She is now working in the press office “sponsored by Soltan and KitKat” and looking forward to tonight’s inter I freestyle to music class.

    Don’t miss the final final installment from Alice and Fab: the out-takes – coming soon!

    About the Area Festivals

    The Area Festivals were set up to give amateur riders of all levels the opportunity to enjoy taking part in prestigious championship-style dressage shows. There are 19 Petplan Equine Area Festivals held at leading dressage venues across the UK from August to November each year. The show aims to give amateurs the chance to compete in true championship conditions and enjoy the experience of riding in the atmosphere of a top show.

    Competing at the Area Festivals is an achievement in itself and more than 3,000 riders taking part each year. Those riders placed first to fourth at prelim to elementary inclusive and the winner only from medium to prix st georges at each Area Festival during are invited to compete at the Area Festival Championships at the NAF Five Star Winter Dressage Championships at Hartpury.

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