Louise Rich, a Young Rider team member riding her own Oakleaze Farm Czamak in the 80Km CER Young Rider class gave me this excellent report - Thank you Louise.
'This year at Cirencester I had entered the 80km Young Rider race ride on Oakleaze Farm Czamak on the Saturday.
We left first thing on the Saturday morning to travel up to Cirencester as it doesn't take very long from home. We arrived in plenty of time for Czamak to have a leg stretch & for us to set up the vet gate. 8am soon came around, so before we knew it we had to vet & get warmed up for the 8.30am start. There were 7 of us in this class. 8.30am came and we were all cantering down the beautiful grass avenue before we knew it. Czamak thought this was rather exciting with six other horses around him and being in a wide open space.
The first loop flew, we did in about 20k, but then half way round we hit some very slippery roads so had to walk which slowed us down. By this point the group had split & I was riding with Dace Sainsbury & Katie Bedwin. Once the slippery roads had finished we were back to cantering. All three horses went really well together and we were heading to vetgate 1 where we all passed and went into the hold.
Katie & I rode the second loop together which had a few changes from the old route but we were fine and flying to the second vetgate, both horses passed so we went out onto the last loop to finish the day off. Both horses really picked up and flew this last loop where we has a lovely canter around the polo fields.
We came into the finish together taking 4th & 5th place.'
Sounds and looks like she had a great ride, just look at that smile - here is Louise on Czamak, courtesy of AGC Photography
Have just read some of the 'thank you' comments on the EGB Forum and it sounds like everyone had a super time, all having an excellent weekend whether they were stewarding, riding or crewing. Well done to all involved, yet another successful ride on the EGB calendar.
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