Equestrian Life Magazine September Issue 220 | Page 52

RHP Eventing
Catch Up
Photos kindly supplied
www.rhpeventing.com
Wow.... where is this year
going? I can’t believe it’s nearly
the end of the eventing season
already and we are looking to
buckle down over winter for
some indoor Show Jumping
and dressage and maybe some
hunting thrown in for a good
measure of fun.
2013 is proving to be a much
more productive season than last
year, we haven’t had event after
event cancelled and so far we
have completed every single one
we have entered.

You may remember from my
reports last year, our time faults
were really our nemesis. This
year we have gone back to Tina
Canton (Tinderbox Sport Horses)
for our training and she has
helped us both come on in leaps
and bounds and we have been
managing to attack the cross
country phase a lot better than
in the past. Tina has given me
the confidence that I need to get
kicking and to trust Twizzy that
she can think quickly enough for
what I’m asking of her.

Unfortunately as I write this,
everything hasn’t quite come
together on the day at BE yet to
net a win, never mind a place, but
last month Twizzy and I competed
at the Belvoir Pony Club Open
ODE at Buckminster and had a
very good run indeed. We led the
dressage on a very impressive
score of 25.6 and Twizzy pinged
her way round over the jumps
to come home just one second
over the optimum time to win by
a massive margin of 10 penalty
points. I’m hoping that one day
we will be able to pull something
like this out of the bag on the day
of a BE Event!
Even though we haven’t been
placed at BE this year we have
had some very good runs, with 4
double clears at Novice and our
time faults getting better each
time we are most certainly going
in the right direction.

gear and experience we have
gained this year we are in with a
good chance of getting a place
this year, or at least doing a lot
better than last year and getting
round. We shall most certainly be
practicing lots of dodgy lines at
home before the day.
I have of course got plans and
aims for the rest of the season,
but if I put them down in writing
I feel like I’m tempting fate a little
bit too much, so I shall continue
to dream about them in my head
until the day they happen, you
will get to find out about them
if you follow us on Twitter (@
rhpeventing) as I’m sure they will
turn in to a running commentary
when they happen as they are
rather exciting.
Until next time.

Rachel Poyser x

We haven’t just been eventing
here at RHP Eventing. Twizzy
has qualified for both the
Intermediate and the Open at
Vale View’s arena eventing, I’m
hoping with our new found

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