Uunfortunately due to incredibly heavy rain showers on Friday and Saturday at Longleat the Intermediate Novice that Ballingowan Diamond was competing in was abandoned after the dressage and the Intermediates were canceled altogether so Bee Animas and Boondoggle both missed out on there runs.
The organisers did a fantastic job however to continue to run the CIC** in difficult conditions. General Opposition and Zidante couldn’t have gone better. General Opposition did a fantastic test in a horrendous down pour he didn’t falter once and kept his concentration really well not throwing his bum into the rain once. He scored a very competitive 46. Zidante also did her test in the rain, but luckily it wasn’t quite as hard as when Herbie went. She went very well and was very accurate throughout and scored a great 44.
Herbie got a little stuck in the mud in the show jumping and had an unfortunate one down. Zidante did a lovely round and jumped a super clear. They then both stormed round the cross country making it all feel very easy. Hebie picked up 3.6 time faults and Zidante picked up 6.4 which was good enough for Zidante to win and Herbie to finish 2nd!!
General Opposition
This was a great result and Longleat has to be one of my luckiest events. This was my third CIC** win on the trot and to add to this achevement I was also 1st and 2nd last year!!!
