But if a horse – due to size or anything else – cannot make the time at a safe pace, and cannot find time-saving routes that are perhaps not possible for a bigger horse, then the outcome needs to be accepting time faults, not traveling at a dangerous pace to keep up with bigger-strided horses.
For the pair in question, I don’t know if the pace is the rider’s decision, as a strategy to minimize time faults or otherwise, or a result of the pony being very difficult to rate.
Interestingly, a comment on the Team Wallace page seems to be addressing Elisa directly (talking about how they always enjoyed watching her compete Johnny) and said:
I don’t believe u would have supported Briggs competing Corture at this level if they were no sufficiently prepared and capable of completing without injury to either of them.
Elisa’s full response to the comment (from her personal profile) was:
hiya! I competed Simply Priceless aka Johnny. Team Wallace is my dad(Rick Wallace and Briggs Surratt) and I’m Wallace Eventing.
There does seem to be an effort to move away from a “Wallace universe” and maintain two separate online personas.
Have you ever seen one used off the track? I haven’t (that doesn’t mean it’s not done just that in my experience I’ve never seen it.) It seems like a weird choice for cross country riding.
Oh how annoying, if she is trying to separate herself. It would almost be worth it to change the name entirely.
She did say after that she bred Corture!
For what it’s worth, I used to see Briggs on Elisa’s vlogs a LOT. I had no idea what his relationship was with the Wallace family until this thread and the Chronicle article.
Sorry.
Yes, after the poster replied to her again and said she was aware of Elisa’s relationship with Corture and she’d got the names mixed up, Elisa confirmed her relationship was that she bred Corture. I found it interesting that was all she said.
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1ATcchf5c5/
This is the Team Wallace (Rick and Briggs) post on Major League Eventers (NOT Eventing) where Denis Glaucom said officials that cry are rubbish. Or something like that.
Truly.
It is not reasonable to expect that the g-public or the g-eventing-public is ever going to work out the difference between Wallace Eventing and Team Wallace. Most will believe they are the same thing. I thought that.
Refreshing a public image is often the path of a complete name change. She doesn’t have to change her name, just her online label/brand name (ie Somethingelse Eventing).
Yep that reply was the “highlight” of my weekend.
It’s really hard to watch people you have looked up to through the years in the horse world show their true colors to the human side of the world.
I have known and appreciated Denis, Bambi and their family for a long time. This isn’t easy and I had a whole reply typed that I couldn’t post.
Given his other posts on FB it does make you look at the “Plantation” name situation with new eyes.
Em
Seems like it would be a good choice, if you were on a strong horse (or pony) who didn’t like to stay straight. It’s not good for finesse riding—I can’t imagine dressage in it, or a twisty show jumping course. But galloping in lanes it’s good. I’ve never jumped in one, but jumping in galloping lanes…yeah, I’d try it. (Theoretically, I hadn’t considered the getting-caught-on something risk.)
From all things online and in interviews I think Elisa still has a relationship with her dad and Briggs, they just run two different businesses. Wallace Eventing is Elisa and Team Wallace is Briggs and Rick.
Although if I was her I know I’d feel some way about my dad marrying one of the old working students who started working for them in highschool, but what do I know.
I mean like realistically I don’t think there’s much for her to do about that regardless of personal opinions. I don’t really get a say in those aspects of my dad’s life lol. Also from what I’ve seen online they maintain two separate programs and training facilities for their respective horses.
I’ve foxhunted with one. More than once. But that was boss’s call. And I;ve galloped tons of racehorses with a ring bit, over hill and dale at Fair Hill and on other tracks and out of steeplechase barns in the open. The ring helps rate the horse, is not severe and I wouldn’t turn a hair at it myself. I have seen much worse in the mouths of She who Shall Note Be Named’s horses’s mouths. Hence the black towels.
Not a great pic but Lad and I at Belmont galloping. He FOR SURE needed a ring bit to gallop 3 miles when in steeplechase training.
Em
For the love of everything, we really do not need to be bringing up their personal lives.
Rick and Briggs are nice people. Elisa, her father, and Briggs are all very close but indeed have two separate farms. Elisa co-owns the pony for cripes sake, she isn’t trying to “distance” herself. She’s likely just trying to stay out of the social media storm. Of all people she surely understands how these things go down.
I think Rick Wallace deleted most of the comments from the Team Wallace FB post about the pony’s recent Rocking Horse OI run. Also appears to have deleted the post in the Major League Eventers group. Unless I’m not seeing it correctly.
Rick has turned me off with some of the things he has said on his podcasts, to the point I don’t listen to it anymore . He has definitely given off if you don’t ride at a high level you shouldn’t have an opinion vibes before .
Blowhard vibes for sure!
Yeah I can’t stomach the Eventing Radio Show. He gets under my skin.
I don’t even own trotting horses anymore.
I admired Elisa’s mustang work and came to know her as an eventer, a space where I’m a fan, not a competitor or owner or sponsor.
If I can acknowledge and remember that she’s a grown woman with a business independent of her Dad’s, gentle reader, you can too.
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