WHAT do you do if the CD gives up during your freestyle?
If you’re Zara Griffiss, you just sing it yourself. The rider told H&H the prix st georges test, on 17.3hh Irish Draught Allegro III, was “going so well, then disaster!”
“The music wasn’t just stopping, it was fastforwarding, rewinding; the noise it was making was scaring the horses in the warm-up, ” she said. “Then it just switched off. But I’d waited so long to ride this test, I thought, ‘I’m not leaving this arena without a sheet!’
“I thought, ‘The judges have got to know what it sounds like, so I’ll sing it’.”
The pair scored 67%, and won their section.
“He owns my heart, ” Zara added.…