Equestrian Life Magazine September Issue 220 | Page 53

Victoria Bax and

Victoria riding Popps. Photo
by Thoroughbred Sports
Photography

Aloeride

Courtesy of
Aloeride,
the naturally
organic aloe
vera supplement
for horses, we
caught up with
sponsored rider
and top eventer,
Victoria Bax.

Eventer
Victoria Bax

This month,
courtesy of the natural aloe vera
supplement Aloeride we find out what top
eventer and our new columnist Victoria
Bax has been up to…

Finally we are out
and about!
Following our accident, Crysto
just hadn’t been himself, so we
decided to get him checked
out by our vet and it turns out
he had an oedema around the
sacroiliac joint, so he has been
given a steroid injection and as
a consequence we are slowly
bringing him back into work,
but also means we can focus on
the other horses!
On the Sunday we took Popps out
to our first event back following
our accident at Eridge. Popps
wore our new Cyclossage for
30 minutes before her dressage
and then I rode her for just 15
minutes before our test. She felt

completely different to normal
while warming-up, but as usual
when she entered the dressage
arena things heated up a little
and it became a little too much
for her where she produced a
score of 43 which was still an
improvement on her previous
score at Hambledon, prior to my
accident. She went on to jump a
textbook clear round in the show
jumping and so onto the cross
country. This was my first time
back in a cross country warm-up
arena since my accident and I will
be totally honest I was terrified
and wondered what on earth
I was doing back there again!
However, after jumping a handful

of warm-up fences, we soon got
back into our stride and left the
start box confidently. Things
started well until half way round
the course where we approached
the coffin style fence and sadly
here Popps took a compete
dislike to it and this is where our
day ended. I was rather upset
as I really could have done with
completing my first event back
successfully, but as they say there
is always another day!
The week after I took both Forrest
and Popps out to compete in a
local unaffiliated dressage test
to give them both a bit more
experience in this field. Popps
performed absolutely beautifully
to produce her best test ever and
most definitely her best score
ever of 74%.
Forrest was up next, where he
warmed-up beautifully despite
finding the warm-up arena
surface a little deep. It was
lovely to see his owner who had
come to watch him for the first
time. Forrest then produced
a nice consistent test to score
63% which I was pleased with
especially considering he has
not been out anywhere since
November last year!
Next stop the following day was
the Area 8 Riding Club Dressage
Qualifiers. Salto had been called
upon to substitute in for a lame
horse in the Elementary class

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