It is 3.00am and Tim and I are leaving with the lorry and the horses aat 4.00am. It has been an amazing journey. Thanks for all your support from back home in Oz. Arrivederci Roma!
Pratoni – Cones Day
August 1st, 2010 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized
Up early and out to the venue to get ready for the cones. Jessica was up early and had almost finished plaiting Diamond when we got there at 6.30am. Michelle and I got “dressed” in presentation clothes and headed out to the cones warm up area with Diamond. At 7.30 Tim came down and took [...]
Pratoni – Marathon Day
July 31st, 2010 · 10 Comments · Uncategorized
Day started early when Michelle and I began walking obstacles at 7.00am. Back to the stables, harnessed up, did the usual marathon nerves things and set off at 9.55. Section A started just out the front of where our camp was set up so no dramas with having enough time to get to the start. [...]
Pratoni – Dressage Day
July 30th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Uncategorized
We were up very early and out to the venue. We had sent the evening before planning our every move for today so everyone knew exactly what they had to do, where they had to be and when they had to do it!!! We have a whiteboard up in the lorry that shows our daily timetable. [...]
Pratoni – Day Four
July 28th, 2010 · 10 Comments · Uncategorized
Out to the venue early and got the horses plaited, groomed and make up on!! We all got into our team uniforms and led the horses down to the marshalling area for the trot up. It was goosebumps stuff as we headed to the trot up area in front of the grand stand. Australia was [...]
Pratoni – Day Three
July 27th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized
This morning we headed out to the venue after our al fresco breakfast overlooking the countryside. Michelle and Elizabeth were scheduled to drive in the practise dressage arena from 9.00 til 9.30. Both girls warmed up their horses and then went into the arena for 15 minutes each. The first of our Aussie support crew [...]
Pratoni – Day Two
July 27th, 2010 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
Up early and out to the venue. The horses were very eager to get out and about. We take them out for a walk and a pick twice a day. Michelle and Liz both harnessed up and took their very keen horses out to the practise arenas. The horses both had a good look around but [...]
At Pratoni – Day One
July 27th, 2010 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
Sunday morning we loaded up the lorry and followed the British team over to the venue, leaving the horses safely in their boxes. Michelle, Liz, Dot and Doug were there to meet us. It was then we discovered that Michelle and Liz had been here the night before not knowing that we were only 200 metres away, [...]
Road (trip) to Rome – Day Three
July 25th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Uncategorized
We left the stables at Milan as soon as we could, the bugs were unbearable and were driving the horses quite mad. It was quite a hot drive today, so numerous stops to offer the horses water and just generally check that they were going ok. There had been an accident on the motorway so [...]
Road (trip) to Rome – Day Two
July 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Friday morning we decided not to leave too early as the horses had another long day on the lorry. We gave them a walk and a pick of grass bandaged and booted up, loaded and we were off on the road again. We introduced James to a Swaggie’s breakfast ( a cuppa and a good [...]
