Not our best day...

Sadly Mark and Milo had a fall on the cross country today. Fortunately both horse and rider were very quickly back on their feet and both are fine.

Milo just had one of those days. He misread the second fence and hit it hard and then was ok for the first part of the course, stronger than usual but he got through all the difficult combinations that had been causing trouble all day.  However in this part of the course the fences come thick and fast and with fairly flat ground Milo just kept gaining in pace.

Once Mark turned for home out on the racecourse Milo decided enough was enough and he was going to take over and at fence 19, nothing complicated, he charged at the fence, left a leg and tipped himself over and decanted Mark on the deck.

Of  course we're all very disappointed but also very relieved that both are fine. We've had a lovely run of clear rounds with Milo so I suppose it had to stop sometime. Not the best way to end the season but not the worst either so here's looking forward to 2013.