Burghley Horse Trials winner Lenamore – Caroline Powell’s reminiscences

Caroline Powell describes her partnership with 2010 Burghley Horse Trials winner Lenamore as “just about a wedding”.

“He’s nonetheless my idol. It was once just about a wedding – we form of cherished each and every different and form of hated each and every different every now and then. He simply was once that particular little horse and he catapulted me proper up into the celebs and stored us there for rather a very long time,” says Caroline in an interview in this month’s Horse & Hound Podcast, supported via Baileys Horse Feeds.

Even supposing he changed into one of the vital constant performers at the five-star circuit, Lexi Jackson and her mom Janey MacKinnon’s Lenamore – referred to as Ed – wasn’t the very best horse to journey. He was once produced as much as the highest stage via Lexi prior to she gave Caroline the journey.

“Lexi and Janey did probably the most improbable activity and in fact, proper the best way thru his occupation, Janie at all times did the primary a part of his health paintings,” explains Caroline. “They have been at all times so inquisitive about what we did with him from everyday. He was once very naughty and I take note seeing him bucking with Lexi – now not grimy, simply naughty, simply filled with it.

“He was once the most efficient evader of labor, even if he labored himself rather arduous. Janie at all times used to journey him when she was once getting him have compatibility and lead one thing else, while I’d journey one thing else and lead him simply because he jogged the entire approach. So in a technique he was once very inside himself with the best way that he went, in in a different way he was once in fact rather arduous on himself as a result of he stored themselves so have compatibility.”

To start with, Caroline says the reality Lenamore was once so athletic allowed him to jink and run-out throughout nation.

“We had our little difficulties at the approach – the little run-outs right here and there – and it did take us a wee whilst to develop that courting and for him to accept as true with me and for me to accept as true with him at the strains,” recalls Caroline. “Even to nowadays, I nonetheless stroll strains and assume, ‘On Lenamore I’d be using this just a little bit otherwise’ since you needed to be simply that little little bit of cuter with him, so he was once difficult in that approach – however he was once beautiful cool.”

At that 2010 Burghley Horse Trials, Caroline says Lenamore “completely carried out fantastically”.

“The entire week was once like a dream come true. It was once just like the Lenamore that we didn’t know – he cantered up the centre line having performed probably the most stunning check and I taken care of patted him pondering, ‘One thing’s were given move mistaken at some degree’. However fortunately it didn’t – we had a fully foot-perfect week and there wasn’t one little bit of him I may just even say wanted tweaking that week. It was once incredible.”

Listen extra about Caroline’s Lenamore reminiscences as we experience this week’s Defender Burghley Horse Trials via tuning in to episode 140 of The Horse & Hound Podcast right here, or seek “The Horse & Hound Podcast” to your favorite podcast app.

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