Hey Everyone!

Hilary here:

Wow, we’re here at HOYS! We’re sitting in our room right now waiting to watch our team in the Mounted Games. We’ve already done one performance on Wednesday and one on Thursday night and everything is going really well! The atmosphere is electric and it’s only Friday!

Everyone loves the music (which changed ever so slightly since the article in H+P) and we’re all singing along. It’s really funny to see everyone’s faces when we walk past them in our costumes but it also gives you this thrill from hearing everyone clap when you perform a tricky movement. The horses look brill too; there are all sorts on them now, from glitter to glow!

It’s so great being here. We’ve all got blue wristbands and it’s so much fun using them to get everywhere around the show. We have walked past Robert Whitaker and Geoff Billington already and we expect to see more during the weekend. We are really close to the International Stable Yard and so we see a lot of the horses when we go for our morning hack. We are also stabled near Daniel Naprous (Luke is directly opposite one of his horses!) which is also pretty amazing!

The shopping is HUGE! We saw the area before all the shops were put in and it is unbelievable that they managed to fit all those stands in that space!

We all get very excited every time we get dressed for our next performance and we go into the arena with HUGE grins on our faces. It’s so much fun that the only bad bit will be going back home!