Phillip Dutton and Trading Aces are in 8th place on 52.5 after the first day of dressage at the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event. [Leader Board]. Silva is home in PA and watched the test on live streaming. Here are her thoughts:
It was kind of a last-minute
thing and we’re very thankful that Phillip is riding Oscar at Rolex; it’s a big
ask and unbelievable that he’d take it on – Boyd was hoping to ride Oscar
himself, but obviously didn’t get to because of his leg.
David O’Connor helped Phillip on
the flat over the last week and I went to watch and it went really well. Phillip
hasn’t ridden the horse that much and obviously doesn’t know him as well as his
other horses, and Oscar gets a bit tense in the ring. I don’t think Phillip
knew to expect that today; Boyd said he wasn’t tense at all in the warm-up, so it
caught Phillip by surprise.
To just jump on and do
the test on a horse he doesn’t know is amazing! I can’t imagine jumping on a
horse I don’t know and doing a test like that!
Oscar got tense in the walk and
the marks went down there, but the flying changes can be hard on that horse,
and they went well. The canter was good; Oscar can be a bit grouchy in the
canter and Phillip did a great job with that. Looking at the overall scores
they did all right!
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