Olympic 3 day Eventing

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When Zara Phillips was interviewed tonight it was mentioned that Mark Phillips won a gold medal at the Munich Olympics. Typically Zara thought it was really funny to point out that Princess Anne had reminded her that her father's gold was a team medal and his score wasn't counted. OUCH!

Well done us indeed, pity Princess wore that awful hat even when presenting the medals.. enjoyed it muchly even though I know next to nothing about the sport... very watchable poor Zara was crying during the first interview, she seems to be so down to earth and nice..

Yes; Zara went out on a high but still seemed to be blaming herself for all sort of things. Feel so sorry for that Swedish girl who almost won the individual..I remember them going on about her horse yesterday, and it's always nice to see someone riding a home bred; extra extra special to all concerned. But the man who won is obviously the best in the world and it's no shame to be beaten by him. As they said, the course was always going to favour the Germans as well. Well done us .

I'm glad Zara Phillips went clear this afternoon but a great shame for Mary and Tina to miss out on individual medals. It was a great three days though and they did well this morning. We have to go out tomorrow and I don't think I'll be back in time for Frankel

I rushed back from work again; missed William Fox Pitt, saw the others then, as I was getting so nervous, switched off a bit and started tidying my handbag, only to suddenly realise that I'd missed seeing Miners Frolic; perhaps better for my blood pressure for that to have happened. Hope she does well in the individual. Now to watch a bit of Goodwood [Frankel tomorrow]. What a week!

Well Done, Team GB. Silver Medal

I had to give up in my forties, Greatnan My right knee was packing up and it wasn't worth the pain although I carried on with our children's riding activities which went on until they were in their teens. It was quite a relief when they gave up because it's such an expensive activity even if you don't compete. We kept two of the three ponies so they could enjoy their retirement but DD1's first pony was sold to a young girl who had spina bifida and went on to win many local competitions.

My daughter had not ridden since she sold her horse at the age of 15. Then she moved to New Zealand, started volunteering at Riding for the Disabled, got totally hooked and is now doing well in her dressage lessons at the age of 49! In spite of doing all the paying out for my girls' horses, I have never actually managed to get further than rising trot myself, but I may take up a little gentle riding when I emigrate at the age of 75.

Well done the team so far

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Useless coverage Hardly any of the real action is being filmed. Two falls, nobody knows what happened or at which fence. Event delayed because of injury but no details. Can you imagine Formula 1 fans being kept in the dark?

What an amazing cross country course and great to see Nicola Wilson get round in such a good time. I am finding the graphics that are flashed up between competing horses really annoying though.

I missed it but saw the interview [cried again; she's so like her dad]. Isn't her horse beautiful....Hope it's not too slippery tomorrow. William's on at 4.20 they said. Hope I don't miss that one.

Just managed to catch Tina Cook's dressage test before going to work. Wow!!! She was soaked poor girl but how fantastic!

I noticed they were whispering during the interview*crimson*. I love three day eventing. DD1 used to compete with our local pony club. Her eventing pony, Sport, was loaned to us by Maureen Piggot who rode him in the British junior eventing team when she was a teenager. Happy Days DD gave up when it would have been necessary to move on to bigger competitions.... The next age group was far too expensive for us.

I could do a Nottingham one! Not sure how many of us there are in this area but that would be good

...by the way, any thoughts on getting to the Midlands meet up? I seem to be in the wrong place at the wrong time for all of the northern ones and hope I'm not oop north when it's the Brum one! Would be just my luck for that to happen; perhaps we should try to organise a Nottingham one?

I managed to see Zara but not sure how to negotiate the buttons to see all of it. A few weeks ago put my name down for lots of overtime at work forgetting that it was the Olympics; thankflully I'm not working tomorrow or Tuesday afternoon. I still found myself crying watching Zara [even more so with High Kingdom being a Trevor Hemmings horse]. I missed Mary King yesterday asking the crowd to 'shush' because of her horses being so spooky, High Kingdom is so delicate compared to Toytown. Oh, she's just been interviewed on the telly and I'm welling up again. Just think she's a lovely person. C'mon team GB but above all, come back safe all the horses!

Saw Zara Phillips and I wonder if we will get any more today - talk about minority sport. Annoyed to see all those empty seats at Greenwich - they should sell them on the day (reduced) to "first come first served."

Are you watching crimson? I have to work today so I am and

It's very rare, I think. I know when Zara Phillips won her world championship it was all very emotional because she'd lost a friend earlier that year. When my daughter started riding oh so many years ago, I always thought that she'd just trot round paddocks, so it was a bit of a shock when she started jumping things. However, she never wanted to do eventing and such like, and the old pony we had wasn't too keen, either, so we spent most of that era of our lives muck picking fields. I'm mad keen on horseracing, so I'm a nervous wreck most of the time watching it. I wish I could cut and paste things, because there's a wonderful article about a 36 year old racehorse in America who is still visited by his 76 year old trainer. Cried buckets reading it! Can't wait for Royal Ascot next week; don't know ifyou've heard about her, but there is an unbeaten sprinter called Black Caviar who has flown over to run in one of the races. The whole of Australia is following her progress. They made her a special body suit to travel over in!

I think it was the danger that put me off in the end crimson, I just couldn't bear it when the horses fell and used to hold my breath until they got up again. How terrible to be there when a rider was killed. Let's hope nothing goes wrong in the Olympics.

One of her horses was brilliant for the first two days but always messed up the showjumping phase; one of the 'King' horses I think..'Boris' perhaps? Someone was killed the year that we went to Burghley, so I'm terribly aware of how dangerous the sport is. I can still remember a voice shouting 'Good luck, Caroline' after one of the phases, and, as she was called Caroline I often wonder if it was her. The words are still in my head as if it was seconds ago.

I used to love our annual visit to Burghley - alas DH couldn't manage it any more, but we used to take whichever dog we had at the time and go round the Cross country course in the opposite way to the riders so you got to see a lot of them. I still think Greenwich was a stupid choice of venue when they could have gone for Burghley, or even made a course in Windsor Great Park. Took the girls riding at Ashkirk once (Ian Stark's place) many years ago and followed his career with interest . Youngest D was quite horsey in her teens and did a bit of X-country but MUCH smaller fences
(Also so admire Mary King - she is a superb sportswoman, not over the hill at 51 and so "ladylike" with it!!!)