28-06-2010

The weekend of 1-4 July, Wiener Neustadt, Austria.

The boys (Cyber, Etoile and Wrangler) are back from the show in Canteleu. Now it’s again time for the women. It is pure coincidence, but now, only Centro as exception, mares are taking the trip to Austria.
But still a little summary of the performance of Cyber in the Grand Prix of Canteleu. Cyber is still gaining experience at GP 1m50 level, and we remember especially the GP of Canteleu because he did it actually very well. In total he received 13 points, but the way was not bad at all. We still have hope! From one of his oldest son there was already one clear in the 4-year-old horses in Hulsterlo. Stany Bucinckx, the breeder of Cyber Vrijhern, was very proud that he made a clear round with Grimaldi de La Cour himself (v. Cyber) at the national championship. Well done!
And now we prepare everything back for our trip to Austria! To Wiener Neustadt Whitney may return with the planning that she will be jumping the Grand Prix, and it will also be an ideal preparation for La Coruna, one week later. Centro and Butterfly are going along to jump the other classes and Uletta will be competing in the young horse classes. These are currently busy times now...
A busy weekend, which our nephew Jeroen De Winter experienced as well. On Saturday, he went with his ponies and horse Ziggy Ziggy competing at the show of the Gouden Laars. He kept the level high for himself, and rode the class 1m20 of the students. A big experience but he was not impressed. What did impress him was that he only put his horse and ponies in the stables at 11.30 p.m while he had to be back at a show at 8 o’clock the next morning.
That will still be recognized by many riders, but it's not easy for a 13-year-old. For Jeroen no problem and on Sunday he was satisfied with his good performances at the LRV show in Puurs. He won with Bolero, was 3rd with Flor and 2nd with Amethist. The top performance for Jorgen was on Sunday with Obelix. He won the class of B light, in itself nothing amazing because he jumped these classes already more then once. But this time he was more than three seconds faster than the second rider. Jorgen knows that jumping also means "show", but whether it is always safe...