Step by Step!

Over the weekend my team and I enjoyed the competition at Ankum. Without the opportunity for an international competition in January we took the chance to train and consolidate Belissimo in the GP and to ride his first GP Special at this CDN. We were well pleased with his efforts and I am continually impressed with his downright dig deep attitude to the GP challenges. When you remember that Bello was out of sport for 6 years and this week marks the beginning of our partnership just one year ago. It is unbelievable just how much Bello has learnt, how much he has developed and how far we have come together in our partnership.

Belissimo was excellent and although there were still baby mistakes and silly rider hiccups we were twice second with 68%. I am hoping to get all my mistakes out of the way now so that later in the year we are all ironed out!

Ankum is a wonderful competition with great facilities and always a wonderful and friendly atmosphere. I took the chance to take a couple of youngsters for training, compete with Belissimo and actually enjoyed a little lie in watching music videos (whats that???), in our lorry on Sunday morning after going mega hard in my stables the past few weeks. Now though, its back to work!

Til next time

Hayley B