Blenheim Horse Trials showjumping outcomes 2024: younger horses impress

British-based Irish rider Georgie Goss has maintained her dressage lead within the Blenheim Horse Trials showjumping ends in the CCI4*-S for eight- and nine-year-olds.

Driving the fashionable Kojak, who’s owned by Georgie, Molly Fisher, Lucy Fleming and Samantha Wilson, Georgie jumped one in every of 30 clears contained in the time allowed from 95 starters.

“He jumped his socks off – it was an ideal monitor for me: it’s a really leaping monitor, with lengthy galloping traces, and he will get fairly lengthy and ahead anyway, so I truly find yourself having to work fairly a bit,” defined Georgie.

New Zealand’s Clarke Johnstone has maintained second place after the primary two phases within the Blenheim Horse Trials showjumping outcomes on this younger horse class driving the proficient gray Rocket Man, a nine-year-old owned by Clarke and his household.

“The monitor rode how I assumed it might – it’s fairly an enormous enviornment, and the jumps are fairly ethereal, so it’s fairly a cautious monitor,” mentioned Clarke. “This horse is an excellent jumper however he was very excited as we speak, so he wasn’t at all times 100% listening to me, however I’m delighted with him.

“Tomorrow might be his greatest take a look at thus far, however he’s jumped one four-star, the place he was clear. We weren’t going for the time at that one, although, and it’s at all times a bit completely different once they’re underneath strain — however I feel he’s a stunning cross-country horse and he needs to be up for it, so I feel he’ll be good.”

Piggy March and Olivia Davidson’s Dassett Arthalent capitalised on a transparent spherical to go into the cross-country in third, having been sixth after the dressage.

He’s a very good jumper, and I knew he might leap a very good spherical, it was nearly conserving him targeted, said Piggy. “He’s naturally cautious, which helps. There’s clearly an environment in there, and also you do must get a gallop on.”

The cross-country section for this class is ready t get underway at 9.30am tomorrow (22 September).

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