Boyd’s Back in Action at Fair Hill International May Horse Trials

It felt great to be competing again after seven weeks of watching everyone else! I tried to minimize the number of horses I rode this weekend and was very thankful that Caitlin took a lot of the young horses off my hands. I chose to ride four well experienced horses since I haven’t been able to school that much and trusted these horses to put in good, solid rounds.

 Thanks to all the work at physio I was more more comfortable than I expected. In jumping the fracture site feels pretty good now; it’s more around the knee area, where I have a couple screws, that is more painful but overall it did not hinder me too much. I shove a soccer shin-pad in my boot and my physio Chris Doughtry has come up with a bandaging system to increase comfort. I ice it a couple times a day and am still going to physio three times a week which I think is very important. I feel like I’m getting better and better but am not quite 100% yet.

I’ve got a busy time coming up: the Memorial Day clinic at Fitch’s Corner coming up next weekend, which is always a favorite weekend for Silva and I, teaching at Fernanda’s beautiful farm in Millbrook, NY. I heard that world-renowned show jumper Peter Wylde is coming to have a crack at cross-country, which should be a very entertaining lesson!

In the next couple of weeks I’m going to run a bunch of horses at Waredaca and Plantation before I head over to Germany to tackle Luhmuehlen. 

Open Intermediate – A

1^st – Pancho Villa-  34.6 

3^rd – Master Frisky – 48.1

OI-B

4^th – Crackerjack – 47.10

Prelim

7^th – New Cadet – 37.2

Caitlin Silliman riding:

Intermediate:

Calisto

Prelim

11^th – William Street – 50.4

2^nd – Ballyneety – 23

Training D

 1^st – Ray Price – 26.7

Novice B

4^th – Boo Ya 35.8

Novice D

9^th – Goldthorn Diamond Imprint – 33.0