Well the day started a bit more overcast than yesterday with some light drizzle so a fleece was the order of the day when I arrived. A walk down towards the house usually comes up trumps for a nice start to the day shot. Surprisingly I managed to get the below shot of Ben Hobday without any vehicles in it which a rarity at that time of the day!
Wandering back to the Media Centre to sign in and have a coffee I realised the attention to detail that goes into these events as seen in the next shot. I resisted the urge to go up behind him and say BOO! even with the big screen stating No Fear! More of this grass feature in 2moro's blog!
Then on to the 2nd day of dressage which normally raises the bar from the previous day but Bettina Hoy's score from yesterday looked a tall order to beat! Mid way through the morning session I decided to stray away from the normal shots that all the photographers get and turn a little arty. Not knowing how this was going to go I looked for some inspiration from the photography gods but they didn't seem to be listening :-( Anyway I soldiered on and the below was the best of the bunch,
After lunch I went back to the traditional shots but always looking for something different if the chance arose. In came Australian Christopher Burton on Nobilis 18 and he blew the score of Bettina Hoy into the nearby River Welland with a score of 30.2. I looked round at his team after he had finished and noticed that his wife Rebekah had been brought to tears of joy by his test.
From the joys of that test in came French rider Rodolphe Scherer and all seemed fine at the start of the test until the Ground Jury led by Sue Baxter deemed his horse Makara De Montiege to be unfit to continue. Rodolphe tried to argue his case but he was eventually eliminated from the event. After all the hard work that goes into getting to an event of the magnitude of Burghley the disappointment was there for all to see and you could not feel anything but sorry for him. I apologise for the image containing 'the portaloos' which from the moment the photographers first entered the arena yesterday have doing our best to not get in any pictures!!!!!!
At the end of the day after sending images to various places and the press conference was over the kind people from Land rover provided special cupcakes, Yum!!!
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