05-11-2012

Withney is like a good wine, she gets better and better.

The jumping of Liège is finished. The winners are known, and then it becomes clear that there is no age on good performance.
John Withaker won the Grand Prix, before the Française Ann-Sofie Godart, for years the girlfriend of Rik Hemeryck.
First Belgian was Philippe Lejeune with Carlino in third place. Only 9 in the barrage, and what had we been happy to be there with Withney. If we are really honestly against our self, she had also earned it. She has jumped 2 x in Liège. On Friday than a really bad luck fault on the last hurdle. Yesterday there was an error on the middle element of the triple combination.
After the triple was only 1 hurdle to jump left. Some riders, who already had 4 faults in the circulation, chose a shortcut to get still classified as a quick four-pointer ranking. Patrik was a bit startled after the error, and chose not for that quick option. So there will be an end to a fantastic set of rankings in GP’s, since that in Vichy in July. But by the way she jumped this weekend again, the satisfaction dominated, and certainly not the disappointment from that one fault. Lady Mc Beth also had a top weekend behind the back, and managed to place on the same 3 starts. After the third place on Friday, the 2nd on Saturday, again a nice 5th place on Sunday.
The next major competition where we look forward to is of course that of Mechelen, at the end of December. We still like to make a stopover in Wieze, the weekend of November 15, with a.o. Umosa and Uletta.