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THERE'S been a great deal of excitement and packing in the yard over the past few days; Sexy Clothes tonight, God willing, Scooby (Woodfalls Inigo Jones) should board his plane destined for the Rolex Kentucky three-day event in America.

Assuming I have a less eventful week than last week, I should join him on Sunday.

Last week I began to think someone had it in for me; two falls in the space of three days has left me slightly blackened, bruised and limping. Only a flesh wound, I'll get over it - but for the moment I'm feeling somewhat battered.

Scooby going to Kentucky is something of a landmark for me; he's the most advanced horse on my long-term programme to find and produce myself top quality horses.

About six years ago I took a long, hard look at my situation and decided that the only way to afford the quality of horse I needed to be competitive at the top, was to buy them at a young age and produce them myself.

Some of the horses would inevitably have to be sold along the way to finance the project and the real challenge would be to keep them coming through with a new intake at the start of the chain each year.

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The oldest horses on my programme are now 10: Scooby is making his four-star debut next week, while others, such as French Leave, Porloe Alvin and Simon Porloe, are shortly to make their first forays into three-star level. I have, sadly, had to sell some very talented horses along the way, and with the economic climate as chilly as it is at present, I will probably have to part with some others over the course of the next few months.

From the Blue Grass of Kentucky, it'll be straight back home and into Badminton with

Shaabrak (Ross). Unfortunately, we had a disastrous prep event in Fontainebleau four weeks ago - lying third after the cross country, Ross got more and more lethargic as he warmed up for the show jumping. By the time he went into the ring he had no push off the floor from behind in his jump and proceeded to rack up a cricket score.

Clearly there was something physically wrong with him; in retrospect I probably should have pulled him out of the ring, but one is always wise in hindsight. Bizarrely he was still clinically sound, and although the lack of power made me suspect he'd tied up, the blood results all came back fine.

Our physio and vet later diagnosed a recurrence of an old sacroiliac injury and extensive muscle strain through his hind quarters.

In my current state of physical disarray, I can utterly sympathise with how Ross must have felt in the show jumping - I find it uncomfortable just walking up steps, let alone pushing off to jump a fence.

Happily, with my wonderful support team (vet, physio, farrier, Caroline, Tiggy, etc etc) fully mobilised, Ross is almost Sexy Costumes fully recovered and is still on target for Badminton. Now there's just the small matter of patching up the jockey....

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