Liz Halliday Comepetes in Salperton Park One Day Event
Equestrian News Release
Liz Halliday, the British-based Californian sportswoman, competed in Saturday’s Salperton Park One Day Event with horses Harry (Silken Crisp) and Oscar (Arctic Knight), just days after returning from Le Mans in France, where she finished 4th in class and was the only female driver to contest the famous annual 24 hour motor race.
Liz’s dual sporting focus on both her horse riding and motor racing ensures a busy schedule, but she relishes the challenge: “I love being busy,” says Liz, “and coming straight here to Salperton so soon after Le Mans is no problem at all – in fact I love the variety.”
Liz entered her first horse, Harry, in the Advanced Intermediate class where he performed beautifully in his first Advanced Dressage test giving Liz her best score on him this season. He then jumped very well around a large Advanced show jumping course and only had one unfortunate rail down.
“Harry did a fantastic job,” said Liz, “and I’m very, very pleased with him. He’s well on his way to a full advanced run now. I didn’t cross country him today because we wanted to save his legs since he's done quite a lot this year already, but some great progress has been made in the other phases.”
Liz’s second horse, Oscar, was also “phenomenal!” in both the show jumping and dressage, running as high as 2nd after the dressage. Again, like Harry, Oscar had one rail down in the show jumping but given the size of the course and his previous difficulty with the show jumping phase, Liz was very pleased: “I had a good day today with Oscar, although he did find the cross country tough going.
It’s basically a fitness issue and something we’ll need to address, but given his comparative lack of experience with me it’s not something we can't solve with a bit more time. We’ll get to work on his strength and fitness over the next couple weeks, and both horses will be out again at the next event at Twesledown on the 10th of July, where they will compete in the intermediate class.”
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