Photo credit Rachel Good
A sunny Sunday and Tim was flying solo at Tweseldown with just the one ride, Gloire de Marchenval (Louis) in the novice. It’s rare that Team Price arrive at a destination with just the one pony but Louis missed nearly all of his 2023 season due to a bizarre injury and spent 2024 playing catch up, finishing up at Cornbury with a top 4 placing in the 2*S. He is scheduled to run intermediate at Barbury Castle in a couple of weeks time so a quick couple of novices were in order to blow the cobwebs away and as a rising 9 year old he is more than ready to step up the level.
Louis won the dressage in his section with a 27 and then, proving exactly why owners James and Rachel Good call him “Perfect Pete”, he added a clear showjumping round and a cruisey cross country with just 0.8 to add to take the win. He is quite the dude having won a couple of 100’s and now 2 novices and he has upgraded to intermediate on points today so quite the milestone.
Nice for Tim to kick off the first event with a red ribbon, great for the whole team and having an 08.30 dressage seemed very worthwhile in the end!