14/10/2024
Retired Racehorse Project Thoroughbred Mareover 2024:
What an awesome week we had! This year we took, In The Union( griffin) and competed in two disciplines, eventing and dressage. This was my first year competing in the dressage division. Griffin was a complete professional the entire week, he never put a foot out of place in the warm up or in the competition arena. For the dressage division we place 12th out of 95 riders!
For the eventing division we were first after dressage with a 78.3! While we had a good stadium round we unfortunately had two rails costing us some points. Cross country we had an amazing run scoring the second highest score! At the end of the preliminary competition we ended up In fifth place landing us a spot in the finale! Griffin stepped into the covered arena like a pro and put in a very nice round but again had two rails costing us some major points. We ended up keeping our 5th place in the finale for the entire eventing division. To say I’m proud of griffin is a complete understatement! He has been the easiest to train, has the best brain, and has the talent to go to the top. Considering he only had 60 days of formal jump training I am blown away by how well he did! We are sad that the best week of the year is over but so grateful we were able to go, and had the opportunity to meet so many new friends, and compete in the most positive, helpful, and supportive atmosphere!
Thank you so much to everyone at home who kept everything running smoothly there are so many of you and I am so incredibly appreciative to you all!
Thank you to all my sponsors for everything! Including keeping us both outfitted in the best clothing and tack!
Kelly and Paul Zanella