Hello from Ellenbach, MEM26!
As the sun set over Ellenbach on the eve of our team competition… we could not have had a more complex, stressful, tiring, emotional and long few days since our team literal journey began on Sunday morning.
Sadly, en route to our UK horses leaving UK, a mechanical issue meant that they missed their export appointment and with all the will and effort in the world (coupled with stress), we were unable to get a new export slot in time for the start of the competition. 😢
This means that those 4 horses will not start here at MEM.
Whilst this happened back home, 3 of our other team horses arrived at MEM, training began, phone calls continued and thoughts of starting as a team became overwhelming!!
BUT, today is day one of MEM’26 and we are ready to go…. support and work as a team… (in our own special way!)
Millie and Crissie will both start today (yes- we have managed to train with a new horse for Crissie!!!), Charlotte will start tomorrow.
Sadly Mike and Jem only arrived after sundown yesterday (having spent days at home trying everything to get the new paperwork ready….) and will not start 💔
BUT, we are here as a team together, we will support each other as a team and we will have a lot of fun here at MEM’26 with our EU neighbours!
Our ‘radio silence’ was to allow us time to try everything we could and we did… but now we focus our hearts on the competition for our team and we look forward to the next days ahead with each other and in the company of our MEM friends!
