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The sun was shining and everyone was smiling on the first day at the Agria Oasby (1) Horse Trials, especially Emily King and Heidi Coy who took the two Open Intermediate sections on Thursday 6th March.
Emily King and Heidi Coy claim Open Intermediate sections
Emily smashed it in the dressage, laying down a score of 23.6 on board her back-to-back Thoresby winner, Valmy Biats ahead of Ryuzo Kitijima riding Be My Daisy (26.4) and Laura Collett on C-Let’s Dance Van De Beemd (28).
Despite dropping one pole in the showjumping and adding 5.6 time on cross country, Emily and Valmy took the win in the OI Section H with a score of 33.2 ahead of Caroline Powell and Greenacres Special Cavalier (34.1) and Barney Brotherton riding DHI King Nelson (34.8). It may have been their first run of the season, but Caroline wasn’t hanging about with her Badminton winner obviously already on great form, coming home with the fastest time of the class on cross country and 3.6 time penalties.
Caroline also picked up third place (36.7) in the Open Intermediate Section G riding Legally Grey behind Gemma Stevens, swopping from showjumping into eventing mode (although ironically, it was a dropped pole in the showjumping that cost her the win!) and taking second place (35.8) on Cooley Park Muze.
The eventual winners, Heidi Coy and MGH Jessica, skipped around the sunny cross country for the fastest time, adding just 4.8 time to their dressage score to take the top spot on 34.6.
Early season win for Kevin McNab
Andrew James riding Primitive Proposition took the Intermediate, Australia claimed a win in the Open Novice with Olympian Kevin McNab riding Wilfred Lancer and Imogen King riding Poynstown Venture claimed the sole Novice class of the day.
The three BE100 sections run today all saw strong results, with each of the winners finishing on their dressage score and just under 94% of competitors enjoying a clear jumping run around cross country in great conditions.
BE100 Section A: Hayden Hankey riding Poynstown Alf (25)
BE100 Section B: Susie Berry riding Madgeslane Harriet (24)
BE100 Open Section C: Lucy Robinson riding Slaneyside Cooley (27.8)
Three more sections of BE100 plus a BE100 Open class run on Friday along with two Novice, one Open Novice, an Intermediate and Open Intermediate class. Ros Canter, Piggy March, Wills Oakden and Clarke Johnstone will be among the ones to watch and we’ll bring you another quick update tomorrow plus full wrap-up with rider thoughts next week.
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