Analysts break down rider Boyd's cross-country mistakes at Tsetserleg, including underestimating the Vicarage V combination and a routing error at the Ineos Grenadier Sunken Road that cost him 60 penalties. Despite the errors, Boyd's horse jumped its best of the day, and training with Olympic coach Peter Wilde has noticeably sharpened their performance.
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And set select tsf coming into the arena now. And I know Boyd was pretty cross with himself on the cross country yesterday. Yesterday glance off at pretty for this combination. What you would have said a slightly easier fence. But you know us as riders, I think he said to me that he didn't really anticipate quite how intense the Vicarage V area is and it's relentless and you know, one little mistake after the other after the other. And he said the horse just suddenly went enough's but they, they came home and, and that's not how you want to start.
His last time here, of course, he got halfway through the Vicarage area before he came out the right hand side at the Vicarage V itself. So this is not the session, not the end of the sport that he was hoping to be jumping his Olympic partner with who went so well at Burnley last year for a top 10. But like you say, that problem out at the Ineos Grenadier Sunken Road, exacerbated then by the fact that Boyd took a penalized long route and there's only route out there that means you can get to the alternate third element without penalties. He didn't realize that, so he was judged to have crossed his tracks. So he got 60 penalties in all out there for essentially one stop.
Yeah, these combinations, they're very cleverly numbered and you have to, when you're walking the course, it's not just about finding the line, but it's knowing your get out of jail cards and knowing if you have a mistake, where do you have to go? Which elements do you have to jump? And it can be quite confusing, especially in the heat of the moment. That was a real shame because apart from the first fence he had been jumping, I'd say probably the best I've ever seen this horse jump. No, it wouldn't be his strongest phase, but Boyd's been working really hard on him and they've come out looking really fresh and really well and a real shame.
Yeah, just a fraction of a time penalty as well. So it's going to be 0.4 for the second over and we count every. We round up every fraction of a second. So eight for jumping, 0.4 of a time penalty. 122.6 for Boyd. You were saying how hard he's worked on his jumping. He's worked for several years and had him with him here all this week. Olympic gold medalist Peter Wilde, who works with some of the top US riders on their show jumping, say not quite the week Boyd wanted. However, joining the ranks of the greats. He follows Tim Price and becomes the second rider in the world to have completed all seven of the permanently established five stars, Tim. They will always have the.
