Carmen Edwards and Satisfied Valerie win Enviornment UK puissance

British showjumper Carmen Edwards and 12-year-old mare Satisfied Valerie received the puissance on the ALX Horseboxes Main Showjumping Championships (16-22 September) at Enviornment UK, Grantham, Lincs, as the one aggregate to transparent 6ft 11in (2.10m).

They and fellow puissance first-timers Ryan O’Sullivan and Kilroy V, at the side of Paul Sims (Kingfisher) and Joe Trunkfield (Locomotion) all made the 5th and ultimate spherical however simplest true all-rounder “Val”, who stands a bit of over 16hh, negotiated the towering set of bricks transparent.

“She’s a courageous previous woman isn’t she?” mentioned Carmen, who has produced the Verdi x Dutchboy mare for the previous 9 years.

Val has received a CSI3* grand prix within the Netherlands and jumped on three-star Countries Cups groups together with her rider however was once entered into Friday’s Dodson & Horrell-sponsored puissance as Carmen mentioned “she felt like she had to bounce one thing a bit of other”.

“I had a few fences down within the qualifiers for the grand prix [at Arena UK] and I assumed she felt a bit of stale,” mentioned Carmen of the mare who’s co-owned by means of his father Carl Edwards and Ian Kellett.

“I used to be staying at Michael Whitaker’s space and he and my dad had a talk the night time prior to and mentioned it could be a good suggestion to leap the puissance.”

13 intrepid competition got here ahead for spherical one, and 6 had been nonetheless in competition for the penultimate spherical. However with the bricks ultimate in at the 7ft marker for the general spherical, simply Satisfied Valerie cleared the wall in high-quality taste, incomes the £1,500 most sensible prize. Ryan, Paul and Joe shared the runner-up spot, taking house £700 every.

“It was once a category the place we didn’t really feel any force and may simply experience it,” published Carmen. “She felt like she can have long gone any other 10cm.”

The pair went on to leap transparent within the grand prix received by means of Emma Crawford on Dukes Of Hazzard, simply having an early rub on an oxer within the jump-off.

You’ll learn the total document from the ALX Horseboxes Main Showjumping Championships on this week’s Horse & Hound mag, within the retail outlets Thursday 26 September.

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