The British Open Showjumping Championships (Pic and Vid Heavy!)

**Miss Z** · 04-07-2008, 07:19 PM

This is a video of Ellen Whitaker's (the Whitakers sure are some family!) jump-off round, I think the video I took of her actual round is too big for photobucket, hee hee.

This was the winner, Louise Pavitt and her magnificent horse Unbelievable Darco.

Another showjumping round, this time the 'Accumulator'. The riders had to jump a course as normal, only for every fence they jumped they scored a number of points for that fence number (i.e. successfully jumping fence 5 gets 5 points, fence 11 gets 11 points etc), ending in a joker fence which they could decide to jump or not; successfully jumping it gave 20 bonus points, knocking it down lost 20 points.

Yup, plenty more....

**Miss Z** · 04-07-2008, 07:22 PM

The winner of this class was Nick Skelton and the beautiful stallion 'Russell'

Oh yes, lots more :P

**Miss Z** · 04-07-2008, 07:26 PM

Now onto the indoor cross country event, which was really quite something! Unfortunately my video of Jeanette Breakwell and the amazing horse 'Over to You' is well over 100MB and photobucket doesn't like it. Over to You is twenty years old and still pops the fences with the springiness of a youngster! Here are some of the other competitors :

The winner was Georgie Spence and Song For Gull

There was even a little indoor polo at this event!

Getting bored yet?

More...

**Miss Z** · 04-07-2008, 07:32 PM

There was a lovely dressage to music display, but it's unfortunate that it was performed in the dark with strobe lights that sent my camera crazy! Here are the best shots I could get. I have a video of the pair as well which I'm trying to upload, and hopefully can post tomorrow.

Here are a Trick Riding team who performed an awesome display. .

Here's a video of their stunts

The final show-jumping competition was the championship which spanned over the entire four days (Thurs - Sun), so this was the second round.

Still some more (getting there now, lol)

**Miss Z** · 04-07-2008, 07:35 PM

And finally, a video of Robert Whitaker in the jump-off with Lacroix 9 (again, the vid of his actual round was too big to upload!). At this point I was running out of camera memory, so that's why it starts and ends a bit abruptly.