Wednesday,
August 31 - The First Horse Inspection
THEY'RE
OFF!
Welcome to the 2005 Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials which got
underway with the first Strongid-P horse inspection at 4.00pm. All the horses
(brought) forward passed and 63 go forward to dressage starting tomorrow under
the eyes of the ground jury of Angela Tucker (GBR), Alain James (FRA)
and Rulli Brill (NED).
British favourite Mary King
who rides Call Again Cavalier has already got in the prizes winning the
‘best turned out’ prize for the rider which was sponsored by Strongid-P
and judged by one of the world’s leading equestrian photographers Kit
Houghton. (Mary King and Call Again Cavalier are pictured at the right
during the First Horse Inspection. Kit Houghton Photo.)
Riders
from nine countries are taking part and include 14 who start at Burghley for the
first time.
Last year’s winner Australian Andrew Hoy,
is back to defend his title with a strong hand of horses, Master Monarch and Mr
Pracatan, both in the top six at Badminton in the spring.
Polly Jackson,
Philip Dutton, Nicola Tweddle, Andrew Nicholson, Kristina
Cook, John-Paul Sheffield, Leslie Law and Tristram
Owers also have two rides each.
British rider Oliver
Townend will be the dressage ‘guinea pig’ with Topping – an
opportune practice for the pair who compete at the European Championships at Blenheim
next week.
Polly Jackson, a former winner of the ‘Best
Under 25’ rider award will be the competition trailblazer with the more experienced
Limestone Rise. She also brings Two For Joy, the coloured 15.2hh with whom she
was third at Blenheim last year.
The below times are local
times, Stamford, England:
Australia's Phillip Dutton, who resides
in West Grove, PA, goes at 10:08 AM, on Thursday, with Mrs. Annie Jones' The Foreman
and at 2:32 PM, on Friday at 2:32 PM, on Friday with August Vettorino's Amazing
Odyssey.
Imtiaz Anees, who rides for India, but, lives
in Georgia, is scheduled to do his Dressage, on Freetown, at 12:10 PM Thursday.
Buck
Davidson, from New Jersey, rides Private Treaty for Luke Allen at 2:05 PM
on Thursday.
Plain Dealing Farm's Winsome Adante and Kim
Severson will enter the Dressage arena at 11:20 AM, on Friday.
(Harry
Meade, pictured here at the left with his father Richard Meade, the Three Day
Event Individual Olympic Gold Medalist at Munich, in 1972, rides Midnight Dazzler.
His Dressage start time is 11:12 on Friday. Photo courtesy of Land Rover Burghley
Horse Trials)
A
portion of the above is re-printed, with thanks, from the Burghley Web Site.
