{"id":3621,"date":"2010-08-28T18:43:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T17:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=3621"},"modified":"2010-08-28T18:43:08","modified_gmt":"2010-08-28T17:43:08","slug":"its-easy-from-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=3621","title":{"rendered":"It’s easy from the ground"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eventing is one of those sports that just looks easy. But not only is there more to it than one might think, there is a kind of social camaraderie to the sport. I toddled down the A34 to Highclere Castle today to watch Owen compete Hayley’s horse Twiglet, and Sam compete on Mobile (pron: Mo-billy). And to do other things as well that may have included food. *cough*<\/p>\n

But I remembered my cameras this time. And, what’s more, I also remembered to use them!<\/p>\n

So here’s my day at Highclere Horse Trials in pictures. But first, the most important meal of the entire morning…<\/p>\n

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Start the day the right way<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At Highclere I quickly found the crew:<\/p>\n

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Mobile and his helper, Kath<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Barbara. Whose name isn't really Barbara. It's a long story<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Sam, Mobile's owner\/rider<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Owen, Twiglet and his owner, Hayley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Hayley seems to be scratching her bum here<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While the equestrians toddled up to the dressage, I went to explore the main arena which, at Highclere, includes a number of strange and wonderful attractions not previously seen at a Horse Trials, including…<\/p>\n

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Never seen these at a Horse Trials before!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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They look like fun!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Can't help wondering how the horses are supposed to climb that<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Would love to see a horse on this, too!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A little light refreshment, part-way around<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Perhaps a cold drink?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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And something hot to eat?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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More choices?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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An old mate, last seen 15 years ago!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Charlie the Coffee Man, making my cheese & tomato toasties<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A proud mum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eventing is one of those sports that just looks easy. But not only is there more to it than one might think, there is a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}