Jess Somerfield and Finch Farm Carpenteria
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Despite Sydney and surrounding areas being plunged into lockdown on Saturday afternoon, Denman Horse Trials in the Upper Hunter Valley, NSW was able to forge ahead with the first day of the event and should remain unaffected by the latest Covid-19 restrictions
At the end of the first day, the lady who will be in bright blue on cross country tomorrow, Jess Somerfield leads the Lake Macquarie Designer Kitchens CCN1* riding Finch Farm Carpenteria. They led after the dressage on a score of 22.20 ahead of Andrew Barnett on Cause for Applause (24.40) and Prue Barrett on Sandhills Stella (27.20) and all three stayed on their dressage scores in the afternoon’s show jumping
Jess also holds fourth place in this class on board HB Zara, equalling Prue’s dressage score but adding 0.4 time penalties in the show jumping to finish the day on 27.60.
The Solid Engineering EvA45 and Widden Stud EvA60 classes also completed both dressage and show jumping today with Jess again on top of the scoreboard in the EvA60A on Pepper, Sarah Lamb on Tonto leading the EvA60B and Lydia Proctor on Entalley Whiskey No Ice leading the EvA60 Junior
Kelli Shaw on Evermore Impression and Tyla Budden on Setco Stryder lead the EvA45A and B sections with Tyla on a fabulous score of 16.30 (look out Ingrid Klimke!)
Hayley Frielick and Highlands Riversong
The Tozer Air Conditioning & Electrical EvA95 and Marsh Carney Saddlery EvA80 classes show jump on Sunday before heading out on cross country and it is New Zealand’s Hayley Frielick riding Highlands Riversong that lead the EvA95A and Heath Ryan on Bobby Dazzler leads the EvA95B
Sarah Clark and Jungle Cat R lead the EvA80B and Stephanie Watt leads the EvA80A on the thoroughbred Sparkling Selection.
The thoroughbreds in each class have an extra prize on offer as the best scoring thoroughbred across all classes wins a cross country video; as Monty Python fans we will be cheering on the brilliantly named thoroughbred Wink, Wink, Nudge, Nudge who is currently languishing towards the bottom of the EvA80A class but who wins our thumbs up for best named horse
The videos are ready to roll so don’t forget to smile at the camera tomorrow!
