Sam Griffiths' Sam Griffiths Blog 01/09/11 - Burghley "Off to a good start..."

We've just done our test and I'm very pleased with Happy. We had a good warm up and he went into the arena feeling very confident and relaxed. Was thrilled with his trot work- he was scoring well and did the best extended trot I'd ever felt but being first to go I think the judges were not really ready to give us the marks he deserved but, hey, that's out of our control and I know he did a very good test. We were all very pleased. Am off course walking again now and then I'm doing a Xc fence analysis for the BBC at the Dairy Mound fence- will have to think of something funny to say to get maximum airtime! Then after that I've got another interview for the burghley website- non stop! I'll definitely be looking forward to having a drink at the cocktail party this evening.... Not too many though of course! Sam.