>
 > Robert Dover had a AWFUL ride.  Metallic decided that instead
 > of piaf, he wanted
 > to perform a canter piroette (sp?) right at I in front of
 > the judge at C.  So,
 > There insued a slight disagreement.  Then they went on,
 > but the ride was less
 > than good.  He left the arena to scores @250 from each judge
 > and was 20th in
 > the standings.  I won't be seeing him doing freestsyle!!
 
Aw, what a stinker!  I know he's just a baby, but I am still disappointed 
-- from what I hear in the magazines, Metallic is quite a ham and 
I was hoping he would do well, at least for a green horse.
 
Poor Robert Dover; he just doesn't have good luck at the Olympics. 
 I remember at Barcelona, Graf George spit out the bit at the beginning 
of one the tests and Dover had to ride the whole way without being able to do 
a darned thing about it.
 
 > Michelle Gibson was poetry in motion!  Her seat was beautiful
 > and her hands
 > were the stillest I saw.  She had a wonderful ride on Peron
 > and was in 3rd
 > place when we left.  (We left after her ride, there were
 > about 4 more riders
 > to go.)
 
I'm hoping that I can see this on my tape somewhere.  This morning I happened 
to catch Michelle's Kur and she had a terrible time with Peron.  First he 
spit out the bit and spooked, and then after that he settled down some, but 
all the transitions were really ragged and he seemed just to have a bad case 
of the 'don't wanna's'.  But even with that, his final halt was miles and 
away better than what Gigolo did.  I thought it was pretty shabby for a horse 
of that caliber to stop all unbalanced and scramble to get his feet under 
himself that way.
 
Thanks for the report -- hope you can write more later!
 
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