I'm afraid I didn't feel very sorry for her @Busy-Lizzie ... I thought she looked very heavy handed, she kept jabbing at the horse's mouth and pulling on his jaw ... he jumped just fine when she wasn't hauling on the reins ... it may have been down to nerves and frustration, but I wouldn't have wanted her riding my horse. The commentator in the studio was very tactful but she intimated that she felt the same.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I didn't see the whole thing, but I saw her in a state, floods of tears. Did she ride badly from the beginning? The horse had already refused with a previous rider.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I took mine to Namur in June @Busy-Lizzie but no wifi! Quarantine meant I couldn't even go out to a café and get free wifi. Not to bad a sacrifice tho as the café would have been a Starbucks.
Walls have now been painted and all the masking tape stripped. Now to scrub the floors where bits of paint managed to get under or past the old plastic tablecloths I use to protect them. After that, the rather unattractive and hopelessly grubby looking cream stone fireplace needs painting cos scrubbing has not made it any better.
We had some serious rain, as forecast, but it stopped, as forecast, too so maybe later I can go and pull a few weeds.
That is one joyous looking tree @chicky. Merry Christmas.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
It wasn't good ... she rode into the ring as if she was determined to show him who was boss ... he jumped a few fences well but she got more and more tense and started jabbing at his mouth and then really hauling on the reins, his head went up and his lower jaw was open and he was hating it ... he'd refused with the previous rider because the stride was all wrong ... I think the horse would've been perfectly ok if pointed at the fences and allowed to get on with it but when the German rider got on him she didn't trust him. If she'd ridden like that at the Suffolk Show I can imagine the judges having a word ... I said to OH at the time, when it all went so disastrously the rider should've retired from the competition, cantered a few figure eights and popped him over a low fence or two just to settle him ... but she was determined to have a battle with him. It really wasn't very good to see.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks @Dovefromabove. I've now read that she could have chosen another horse and they had 20 minutes to try each horse. Some horses get very stressed with hard riders.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Maybe 21C here at best but fine for painting. 2nNd coat on walls all done, grotty fire surround painted, 2 oak display thingies scrubbed clean and floor washed. Knackered but I did enjoy having High Society on in the background.
Possum cooked a vegetarian Japanese noodle thingy for diner. Lovely treat.
OH is not golfing tomorrow! I shall send him out after more weeds. I nee dto do some patch homework for a workshop I'm running on Monday.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
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I'm afraid I didn't feel very sorry for her @Busy-Lizzie ... I thought she looked very heavy handed, she kept jabbing at the horse's mouth and pulling on his jaw ... he jumped just fine when she wasn't hauling on the reins ... it may have been down to nerves and frustration, but I wouldn't have wanted her riding my horse. The commentator in the studio was very tactful but she intimated that she felt the same.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Walls have now been painted and all the masking tape stripped. Now to scrub the floors where bits of paint managed to get under or past the old plastic tablecloths I use to protect them. After that, the rather unattractive and hopelessly grubby looking cream stone fireplace needs painting cos scrubbing has not made it any better.
We had some serious rain, as forecast, but it stopped, as forecast, too so maybe later I can go and pull a few weeds.
That is one joyous looking tree @chicky. Merry Christmas.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-9871405/German-modern-pentathlete-coach-kicked-Tokyo-Olympics-PUNCHING-horse.html
Samantha Murray's comments are spot on.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Possum cooked a vegetarian Japanese noodle thingy for diner. Lovely treat.
OH is not golfing tomorrow! I shall send him out after more weeds. I nee dto do some patch homework for a workshop I'm running on Monday.