From Fair Hill to Burghley with Colleen Rutledge, continued
side of the ring were to show up
in the ring, we would have been low 50s. Cross-country was
awesome. T ere aren’t enough words to de- scribe it; besides, until you stand on top of the “Leaf Pit” look- ing down and getting that same feeling of vertigo as standing on the edge of a building looking at the street below, or walking up to “Cotswold’s Leap” and realizing that you can drive a large car through the ditch and still get out the door on either side if you were to stop in it, or limboing any of the rails on any of the oxers anywhere on course, you just hear words. [ Jimmy Wof- ford] had the best saying of the year, “only the paranoid survive.” Just meaning that [you] don’t take anything for granted about this course, ever. T at was defi nitely the case for me; I made damn sure that I was where I was supposed to be no matter what. Luke was amazing. I could have asked him to jump anything, anywhere.
Never a waver, never a question, just “yes” and go.
Colleen and Shiraz ended their fi rst Burghley experience with only a few cross-country time faults and one dropped rail added to their score.
Jogs (or trot-ups, as they are known here) were good; Luke was an absolute gentleman and so very pleasant. T en the sprinkling started. Not too bad, just a light misting (soft, for those of Irish heritage). It helped to walk the show jump course, fi rst by myself
and then with Sinead [Hapline] and Captain Mark Philips, because it just solidifi ed what the voice in my head was saying. Luke felt great and as we went into
the ring, I was fi lled with awe. T is is the conclusion of Burghley. Luke jumped absolutely fabulously and the one rail we had down was me just being a microsecond ahead of him in the tri- ple. T is was one of our best show jump rounds, simply because we both came to
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play. I was feeling quite fortunate that we show jumped early because when we went back for the parade of champions (where you pay your respects to the royals), it poured. And I mean poured. Everyone was absolutely drenched. It seemed to have quite an eff ect on the leader board. T is week has fl own by and every time I went
Look for Colleen at FHI this year with Dillon in the CCI** (pictured here at the 2010 FHI CCI**).
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