WEG eventing: comment from the New Zealanders
New Zealand’s eventing squad is inwards minute identify going into what is expected to live an extremely influential cross-country stage at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games on Saturday.
The Kiwi riders verbalize to Jane Thompson next their dressage tests, on the evening of the cross-country phase.
Mark Todd
In 29th identify on Leonidas II (team)
He was OK. When I went inwards at that spot as well as at that spot was all this clapping as well as everything, he got a flake distracted as well as I lost him a twosome of times. Probably made only besides many mistakes to acquire a genuinely proficient mark.
Some bits nosotros did genuinely really well. I am non disappointed, it’s only 1 of those things, he is non used to this atmosphere. When y'all firstly exceed away inwards it is quite noisy, at that spot is a lot going on, as well as so nether the chateau at that spot are people moving roughly so for a Equus caballus that does acquire distracted at that spot is quite a lot going on. It’s non electrical but at that spot is a lot going on roughly them to acquire distracted.
It’s sloppy out there, he was splashing roughly out there. When it is similar that he gets inwards this large lopey galloping stride as well as it makes it hard to acquire him to exercise some of the work.
It mightiness live a lucky line going early on with these sorts of conditions. It’s a large track, it’s long, it’s hilly, as well as it is moisture so I don’t scream back it is going to live a dressage competition.
The course of written report is already wet, past times the destination of lxxx strange horses, it is going to live pretty cutting upward as well as non real dainty I think. It may destination upward existence a lucky affair to live early.
It’s a fabulous venue but unfortunately I scream back the French didn’t genuinely scream back through what would hap if it rained. It is a shame for everyone that it has turned out so moisture but it is purpose of our sport as well as it is all nearly how y'all grapple with it. I scream back for the spectators as well as everyone else it is non so pleasant sloshing through the mud as well as the cars are having to acquire towed inwards as well as out of carparks but for us it is fine.”
Predications for a medal: As a squad nosotros receive got a real rigid team, on newspaper us as well as the Germans would receive got to live 1 of the favourite but with these weather condition as well as Earth conditions y'all tin give notice pretty much throw the shape volume out the window. As Badminton showed us this spring, anything is possible as well as I scream back everyone is inwards with a chance. It’s non going to live a dressage competition, it levels out the playing field.
Tim Price
In 6th identify on Wesko (team)
I was genuinely pleased with him. You e'er hope for the best as well as I desire perfection which nosotros all know is hard to master. I’m rapt with him. The atmosphere was surprisingly all encompassing, as well as he went inwards as well as did alter quite a bit. He is a immature Equus caballus at this grade as well as that showed a piffling inwards his halts as well as a twosome of other areas inwards the exam but he only position his best human foot frontward as well as his full general agency of going was amazing. I’m genuinely excited nearly what he is going to live able to hit inwards the future.”
What exercise y'all scream back of the cross country? “Its a animal of a thing. I’m looking frontward to tackling it but it’s a pretty rigid exam out at that spot as well as the conditions volition play their part. He has used the terrain incredibly good as well as it volition live a existent test.
It’s inwards your human face upward from the start. Those corners are going to live your firstly wake-up call. Then I scream back genuinely the side past times side H2O as that is a combination of that large drib where y'all volition receive got a lot of speed on, but inwards all reality, y'all are going to only exceed away downwards at that spot as well as build a conclusion as to what y'all volition exercise inwards the H2O as well as so create upward one's heed what y'all are doing inwards at that spot to the side past times side skinny. I scream back that is the large 1 for me, anyway. But so y'all hold going circular as well as it volition live to a greater extent than of an influence nearly the tiredness or the wellness of the Equus caballus as well as how he is travelling – that volition come upward into play.
I receive got non had a Dutch Equus caballus or a warmblood similar him. He only loves to gallop, he loves cross province inwards every way. I hadn’t had a contest yet when he hasn’t come upward through the complete flags strongly. He’s only so willing as well as loves his job.
At his 3 days it has mainly been firm, but at Blair Castle this fourth dimension lastly twelvemonth it was a piffling soft. But knowing the horse, he volition give his best. He is a real compact Equus caballus as well as he is real tidy inwards the agency he tackles it so he volition live economical inwards that sense as well as I would similar to scream back it mightiness adapt him.”
Role tomorrow when Jonelle is on? Oooh, I don’t know. I volition trying existence roughly as well as I volition essay existence away. No I volition only live there, belongings a bottle of H2O as well as only helping her with a few details inwards her lastly preparation.”
Are y'all going to shell Jonelle? Ummm, nosotros are all winners inwards this. She is a belatedly telephone phone up, she is on a light-green horse. She is a supreme tactician as well as the agency she goes nearly things her horses perform real consistently for her so she volition acquire the best possible out of her horse, guaranteed, inwards all 3 phases so she volition live good.
It’s been nifty fun so far. We receive got got a nifty team. The fun is piloted past times Toddy. We receive got had a lot of fun inwards the chateau nosotros are inwards playing ping pong as well as life sized jenga. It has been a fun fourth dimension for all.
The pressure level felt similar it had been taken off the dressage today because of the influence nosotros scream back the cross province volition play. It has been a proficient start point, though, as well as if Wesko continues inwards the agency he has gone, he has answered every inquiry inwards the lastly 12-18 months for me. He is such a nifty third-day jumper – that is a existent forcefulness to have, so I am looking frontward to the residue of it.”
Jonathan “Jock” Paget
In 3rd on Clifton Promise (team)
It’s proficient to live back. I was genuinely proud of him to only exceed away inwards as well as exercise the same affair he did lastly fourth dimension he did a four-star. He was real straight, he was real accurate, as well as he was listening to me the whole agency through. There was zilch I was disappointed with. He is such a nifty horse, he is such a professional, he only loves his job. It’s dainty to allow him exceed away inwards at that spot as well as receive got some fun.
How did y'all detect the atmosphere? He wasn’t fazed. He’s getting similar that every twelvemonth now. He is getting improve as well as better, he is maturing. I scream back the fourth dimension at abode spell I haven’t been able to compete this twelvemonth has worked for him. We receive got worked on some piffling differences, he has thrived on it.
The dressage mark? I idea that some of the materials he should receive got got improve marks for. I volition receive got to receive got a expression at the exam as well as exceed away through it properly. Maybe the expression wasn’t as proficient as it felt. Once I sentry it I volition live able to reply that inquiry better.
Thoughts on the cross-country? I haven’t position a whole lot of idea into the cross province yet as I receive got been focusing on the dressage. Now is my fourth dimension to exercise that. My firstly impression is that it is a large track, I scream back it is going to receive got a real definite ride all the agency around. I scream back that if y'all ride the course of written report the agency Pierre is quest y'all to ride it, so it is going to assistance y'all build the time. It’s quite a forward-attacking course. There are some hills at that spot that volition tire the horses out, I scream back the Earth is non going to live proficient because of all the rain. I scream back nosotros are going to come across some tired horses. You mightiness come across some improve tactics coming out with the teams. Some riders mightiness come upward out as well as acquire a few fourth dimension penalties to acquire home, some people volition stick to their guns as well as essay to build the time. I scream back regardless it is going to live an exciting twenty-four hr catamenia tomorrow.
Promise is real fit. He had 3 weeks off afterward Burghley as well as so he has been dorsum inwards operate since. I ordinarily position him inwards the paddock as well as he tells me when it is fourth dimension to come upward dorsum into work, he comes running to the gate every morn as well as that is when it is fourth dimension to convey him back.
How receive got y'all kept your ain focus? It’s the Earth championships.There’s a lot to focus on with that! I receive got a real proficient Equus caballus as well as am purpose of a real proficient team. I receive got had nifty support, I receive got dealt with the representative when I receive got had to bargain with it as well as so used my gratis fourth dimension to sharpen up.
Have y'all run him inwards Earth conditions similar this before? No, that’s the exclusively affair that does mayhap build me scream back a piffling bit. I receive got taken him inwards deeper going earlier but it has been to a greater extent than similar one-days rather than the large tracks. He is a real powerful horse, he is a real fast horse, he is real very proficient at it. If I had to pick whatsoever Equus caballus inwards the Earth to exercise it on, I would live picking him.
Andrew Nicholson
In 15th on Nereo (team)
It’s quite warm out at that spot now! It was good, it’s only that I made ii large mistakes as well as at this grade y'all can’t afford to build mistakes. I scream back his trot operate was in all probability the best he has done as well as to live upward with the leaders inwards that flake of it, he had to operate very, real hard. It only started to present inwards the canter operate but at to the lowest degree he got over his mistakes each fourth dimension as well as did things properly. He is a large Equus caballus to essay to build expression elegant as well as light. I scream back he was doing a real proficient labor of it but it only went incorrect inwards a few places.
On the cross-country: It’s a real fair course, it’s real large but it’s real fair. It was a piffling unfortunate for us all as well as the organisers that the pelting came along. It makes it quite demanding on the stamina side of things but it is the same for us all as well as nosotros only desire to leave of absence at that spot as well as exercise it.
Being at the destination of the field: That’s the draw, y'all receive got it as well as y'all exercise what y'all can. Hopefully it won’t build whatsoever difference.
On the changes made inwards the course: They receive got taken 1 loma out which is a large help. The loma had quite a few soft patches inwards it which betwixt that as well as existence a loma … Plus it has quite a sizey boundary at the top with the owl hole as well as for a lot of nations, if the horses were tired, it could receive got been a hard 1 to boundary at the top of a loma inwards soft ground. One of the fences they receive got taken out was inwards a flake of a bog so I scream back it is a proficient affair they receive got taken it out.
On the firstly course of written report walk, the cows were out on course of written report as well as inwards the minute course of written report walk the cows were gone so I had presumed they had taken them inwards to milk. They receive got evidently milked them as well as position them back. (Reporter explained the TV cameras wanted them for background. We asked if he could nevertheless milk a cow). “No, I receive got given upward miking cows, non fifty-fifty 1 similar those out there.”
On the going: Nereo has in all probability been inwards every going at that spot is. He volition know what he is hither for.
On the dressage judging: The bits I receive got watched I idea they judged very, real well. I watched yesterday as well as I idea they were marker real fairly as well as today the ones I watched, I scream back they receive got been fair. When at that spot has been a error they receive got marked y'all down, where y'all receive got done well, they receive got marked y'all up. They seem to receive got been consistent.
On the squad environment: They are a real proficient bunch of riders. They are real motivated, competitive as well as a proficient bunch.
On the squad placing: I shouldn’t worry to much nearly the dressage scores.
Lucy Jackson
In 9th on Willy Do (individual)
Delighted! He position his best human foot frontward as well as I’m pretty pleased with the result. Some horses seem to freeze a piffling bit, my Equus caballus didn’t.
We are so spoiled with our NZ Equestrian Federation support. I trained with Jill Watson for 20 years which is embarrassing to acknowledge for both of us. Then inwards add-on to her coaching as well as mentoring, with the Federation’s funding, Erik Duvander has helped me acquire some coaching with Andrew Fletcher. He is a pure dressage passenger as well as sure at nowadays inwards this sport y'all are non inwards gilded medal seat on 70%. We were both a tiny piffling flake frustrated past times the tiny mistakes but this is my best four-star score past times a long shot as well as so now, expression out as hopefully at that spot is to a greater extent than to come.
Thoughts on the atmosphere inwards the dressage arena? Weirdly it appears to live when they human face upward the chateau side they acquire distracted past times something high upward on the hill. I don’t know why because I would personally prefer to human face upward the chateau than the crowd. It does appear to live creating a flake tension, non making them blow up, only agree themselves a flake as well as so they acquire hard to ride.
On the cross-country: I am hoping that Badminton was the best training possible. Badminton was huge as well as real wet. He wouldn’t live the fastest Equus caballus on 4 legs but at Badminton he laid out on a beautiful musical rhythm as well as tackled everything genuinely well. That is my intention on Saturday, only exceed away out as well as repeat that. There were a few times at Badminton, having watched my video, where I could build upward fourth dimension without hurrying him, past times moving away quicker from some fences so I intend to grab upward a flake of the time. He is a real scopey, luckily, as it’s massive. He’s got a huge stride, luckily as it is a genuinely long way, as well as he doesn’t heed the deep, luckily, as it is quite deep.
Will the fourth dimension (11.30) live difficult? Yes! It volition live hard peculiarly for the guys at the start is no-one is genuinely sure how they are going to come upward home. The guys who laid out for the fourth dimension mightiness non receive got plenty horse. There is plenty of jumping, correct through to the lastly debate which is a large fence. We are non genuinely sure how they are going to experience on this footing. Thank goodness I am 49th to run so I tin give notice receive got a expression at how the fences are riding, how the Earth is riding as well as how they are pulling upward so I tin give notice operate out what form of measuring to laid out with.
I am absolutely delighted to live purpose of the Kiwi team. There couldn’t live a improve bunch of guys to live with. You grow upward with these guys as your heroes, with posters on your wall at schoolhouse as well as hither y'all are, running amongst them. They are real supportive, real focused, they are out at that spot to win but they are as happy to back upward us inwards our endeavours to essay to shell them.”
Jonelle Price
In 26th on Classic Moet (individual)
I am pleased. It is non her rigid phase. She has come upward a long agency inwards a real curt time. She genuinely did her firstly advanced ever hither at Haras de Pin this fourth dimension lastly year. She has come upward a long agency inwards a curt time. She has had to larn a lot of novel work, she has changed shape inwards her body. That is a personal best at whatsoever grade for her today so to come upward as well as exercise it hither it is great.
She is xi but she is immature on mileage. I did Ballindenisk 3* so on to Luhmuhlen where she did a 54 I think. That was exclusively 3 months ago. She genuinely is on the improve. You never quite know how much y'all tin give notice hit on the day.
We had ii mistakes inwards the exam as well as those ii mistakes are ordinarily her improve marks of the whole exam so that is a flake frustrating but I scream back that is the nature of these competitions as well as it is nearly producing 100% of the operate inwards the exam at the time. It is fifty-fifty to a greater extent than encouraging to scream back she got that score with ii mistakes. We receive got managed to convert a lot of the 7s to 8s inwards the other operate as well as that gives me a lot of hope for the future.”
Views on the cross-country: “Just going for some other expression now, I’ve already been roughly twice. I scream back it has got a piffling flake smaller 1 time again today, our personal stride length gets a flake longer each twenty-four hr catamenia as well as all of a abrupt the distances start to experience a flake to a greater extent than achievable whereas on the firstly twenty-four hr catamenia it felt similar everything was real long opened upward distances to large accurate fences. There is plenty to exercise out there. There receive got been a twosome of changes today so I am non sure how that volition weigh into things. With or without the changes, at that spot is nevertheless plenty out at that spot to form the patch out, peculiarly given the Earth conditions which are a piffling flake unknown at this point.
Will the course of written report adapt your horse? Your justice is as proficient as mine. She hasn’t done that much. What she lacks inwards obvious talent, she makes upward for inwards heart. She is a flake unique, she jumps a flake inverted, she is her ain brand. She has a huge heart, she is a genuinely gutsy piffling mare, as feisty as y'all like. She is a ‘blood’ horse, so y'all know if anything is going to exceed away out at that spot as well as give it a go, it volition live her.
Will y'all live going for the options? NO! I didn’t come upward hither to exercise options. You exercise that at home. That’s my approach, rather than a squad approach.
On having Tim inwards the team: It is nifty inwards that it is tardily having ii of us here, y'all don’t receive got to worry nearly things similar accreditation as well as whether 1 somebody is feeling good, 1 somebody feeling bad. It is bad because at that spot is no 1 at abode riding the horses! No, seriously, it is great. He has had a vivid 12 months as well as Wesko is a fantastic horse. Wesko could live Tim’s Equus caballus of a lifetime. He’s got all to play for tomorrow as well as it is a large inquire for the Equus caballus but they receive got had a nifty twelve months.
I acquire to a greater extent than nervous watching Tim ride. I scream back most riders state the same. We tin give notice acquire on as well as nosotros know our labor as well as y'all tin give notice focus on that. I’m a terrible watcher. Don’t expression for me inwards the tent, I volition live the 1 with closing my eyes, screaming as well as turning away. I scream back when y'all know so concisely what tin give notice exceed away wrong, I tin give notice sentry it as well as come across something ii or 3 strides out that other people don’t as well as y'all know at nowadays away it could live detrimental. I scream back sometimes it’s improve to live similar my woman nurture who only sits at that spot as well as watches, she gets a flake nervous but less cognition is improve when it comes to watching.
Will y'all live having a placidity nighttime tonight? I’m non sure nosotros know anything similar a placidity night. We receive got had a lot of fun as well as games as well as activities therefore far. We are so lucky, nosotros receive got a nifty fourth dimension as well as the spirit dorsum at the identify is great. We are all proficient mates as well as that only makes it so easy. Obviously nosotros are real lucky to receive got the administration nosotros receive got at acquaint so nosotros receive got got absolutely no complaints. Holly does all the cooking. I did skip dejeuner today though, nosotros receive got breakfast as well as dinner at that spot so it’s all great.”
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