The Week in Eventing

Last week saw a flurry of activity around the eventing world. Here are some snippets from the UK, US and Australia;

America - Red Hills CIC 3*

Phillip Dutton had a blinder of a weekend at Red Hills with lots of horses doing well in lots of classes but the stand out result was for Phillip and his new mount, Aussie horse Mystery Whisper. Previously owned and campaigned by Heath Ryan, we all know that Mystery Whisper does cracking dressage tests (as long as he stays in the arena) and at Red Hills, he showed the Americans what he is capable of by scoring 27.90 in the dressage phase and added only time faults to that score to win the class.

      Heath Ryan and Mystery Whisper Sydney CCI 3* 2010

Results from Red Hills can be found here;

http://www.evententries.com/livescoring/14910.html

Video of Phillip’s test with Mystery Whisper here;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6C22roOObA&feature=channel

Also, 6^th in the Red Hill CIC 3* was Aussie rider Peter Atkins and the famous Henny aka HJ Hampton who shot to fame two years ago with one of the first helmet cam videos. Interestingly, it seems that the FEI have now made a ruling on the use of helmet cam and that their use needs to be sanctioned before being allowed to ride with one. Peter and Henny were the only combination to go double clear on the cross country - obviously Peter was allowed a helmet cam at Red Hills; you can see his ride on the weekend here;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AzDcpYYbGs&feature=youtube_gdata_player

UK – Tweseldown

Aussies and Kiwis were out in force at the first major event of the season in the UK at Tweseldown. In the Open Intermediate Section C, Andrew Nicholson took out the two top placings on Avebury and Calico Joe with Mark Todd in 3^rd place on NZB Campino. Australians Paul Tapner and Inonothing were in 6^th place, Wendy Schaeffer and Koyuna Sun Dancer in 15^th, Chris Burton and Holstein Park Leilani in 16^th, Chris and Haruzac in 20^th, Catherine Burrell and Urzan in 29^th and Lucinda Fredericks with Acheron in 35^th.

Lucinda had more luck in the Open Intermediate Section D coming second with Flying Finish. Also in this section were Andrew Hoy in 5^th place on Cheeky Calimbo, Paul Tapner 9^th on Wickstead Didgeridoo, Chris Burton 17^th on Underdiscussion, Brook Staples 27^th on Ever So Clever II and Sam Griffiths on Mumbo Jumbo IV.

Lucinda also won another of the Open Intermediate sections on Mr Miller 2

       Lucinda Fredericks and Mr Miller 2

Full Results at http://www.bdwp.co.uk/tw1 and see our earlier article for more info and photos

http://www.an-eventful-life.com.au/content/tweseldown-hosts-antipodean-eventers-seasonal-opening

Europe

In Portugal, the other Fredericks was competing at Barocca in Portugal. Clayton had taken a few horses including Ben Along Time who he is aiming for Rolex Kentucky next month.

The final results for Clayton were;

CCI 1*

Clayton and Sorrento 1^st on 43.1

Clayton and Mr Big Cat 15^th on 60.2

CCI 3*

Ben Along Time 5^thon 65.1

Be My Guest 12^th on 76.5

Australia

       Megan Jones and Kirby Park Allofasudden led from the dressage phase of the Tonimbuk CIC 3*

The first CIC 3* was held at Tonimbuk Horse Trials in Victoria where Megan Jones took first and second place with Kirby Park Allofasudden and Kirby Park Irish Jester. Full reports are on this site under the Events section on the Tonimbuk Horse Trials page

In Scone, NSW another silver medallist from Beijing, Shane Rose took the honours, winning the CNC 1* A Section on Shanghai Joe, the CNC 2* on Virgil and the CNC 3* on Taurus while Mattea Davison ruined a clean sweep for Shane by winning the CNC 1* B Section on Fairbanks Elle

We’ll have a full wrap up on the Mt Arthur Coal Scone Horse Trials on the web site soon so stay tuned after a very big weekend of eventing!