Firstly I am very sorry for the rather lengthy delay in writing this report! But things all got a bit hectic with organising everything for Burnham Market 2* which turned out to be a rather non-event anyway. But I will explain what happened there in my next report!

I went to Sapey with high hopes that Belvedere would continue to put in another very respectable & very correct performance like he has done at all his other BE100's this season. 
He didn't warm up brilliantly for the Dressage so I hastily got Mum to run and fetch Tor to give me a hand warming up. We got him going a bit better and went in to do our test. It was very correct with very few errors and thankfully the judge liked him as a horse and we ended up with a very respectable mark of 32. Actually one of his best marks with BE!

Onto the Show Jumping, I wasn't worried as am very happy jumping him at this height and thought that although the course was cleverly built with some downhill related distances that we would be fine - I was mistaken! We didn't have the best prep because the person before me had a very nasty fall and so we ended up hanging by the entrance for quite some time. Something which Belv doesn't really like doing, but in we went and quickly into a nice forwards bouncy canter. Jumped the first really well and then I'm not really sure what happened. We got deep to a couple, but nothing horrific and we maintained a nice rhythm and energy all the way round but came away with a very very disappointing 12 faults. I have not had more than one fence down on this horse since 2009! Not ideal and so I was in two minds whether to run him XC or not because we were now not in contention for a placing and the ground was quite hard.

In the end Mum and Tor persuaded me to run which probably was the right thing to do seeing as this may have been my last event on him. Anyway he flew round in his usual Belv style coming very comfortably inside the time!