JOE’SJOURNAL
JOE’SJOURNAL ‘Clock Watching’
ankle in the fall and has sincehad to have iit plated. This obviously ended his chancesof an Olympic place this year.
problems. The system causessomany delays, the horsesmust stand on the lorry and although we feedand water them whilst we are waiting, it is not good for them at all.
Poland early on Mondaymorning and we made two overnight stops. It is very tricky these days to time it right to get across the channel. p
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AmericaCacharel (Cash), Equine America Don Diego de Plata (Didi) and Equine America Kandleford (Tom) have awell- earned time in the field. We were away for along time, so it was lovely to see them backhome in the field relaxing. We try to get most of the horsesout every day unless the weatheristoo horrible for them. WhenIlast wrote Iwas heading to
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Peelbergen, Holland and Uggenhalne, Denmark,bothshows were Nations Cups. All threehorsesjumpedvery well and were placedinclasses. In Holland, the team finished2nd and in Denmark we were 3rd and Cash jumpedadouble clear for the team. The final leg of the trip was to Sopot,
Poland to jump on a5*Nations Cup. It was my first 5* team and Iwantedtogo well, obviously. I thinkCash was possibly a little tiredand didn’t jump quite as well as she had done over the trip. Iwas still extremely pleasedwithher though, they were very tough coursesand it was the first time at that level for bothofus. Iwas lucky to have Will Funnell there to help as he was also amemberof the team. Will had afall on the last dayin the second round of the team competition, sadly he broke his
eare enjoying a couple of weeks at home concentrating on the youngerhorses whilst Equine
Cash in the Nations Cup
This time we had anew nightmare; whenweleft the UK, the Border Control had made amistake on the paperwork and unfortunately, we had not noticeditto get it corrected.
This might seem to be a
very trivial matter, only the FrenchBorder control did not, and said that it was my
Charlotte and Iset off home from
responsibility to notice that instead of it saying Ihad 3horsesonboard it said Ihad 8. Now they wantedto fine me for the 5 horses that were not there, just asmall fineof10,000 euros!! Obviously, I did not have that money and felt Ishould not have to payanyway. After3hours they finally let me out, poor Charlotte had no idea where Ihad beenasmyphone was flat too. But the poor horseshad had to stand on the lorry for 3extra hours for a3instead of an 8!! Needless to say, neitherofuswill be leaving aborder control without double checking it is correct next time. Whenwe finally got back,Ihad the
good news that Iwould be able to jump at Royal Windsor and would be jumping in the Puissance. The threehorseshad a weekgoing out in the field every dayand I gottogrips withahorse called Florida who
Florida owned by India Bussey
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