A Happy Boy Indeed: Tim Price is On Top of the World at Boekelo

And just like that, another Boekelo was over — but not without a generous helping of drama right down to the last seconds of the competition.

Just 14 of the 53 starters would deliver clears inside the time on Kris Van Gelder‘s track, and so tightly packed was the leaderboard that a rail — or a clear — would send competitors tumbling down or shooting up the leaderboard. And so when Tim Price delivered the goods — and one of eight FODs in the class — with his 2019 Seven-Year-Old World Champion Happy Boy, he was delighted — but he wasn’t thinking much further than that he’d secured himself second place. When two-phase leader Laura Collett took a late rail with Dacapo, then, it didn’t quite hit him what had happened.

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Article written by: Tilly Berendt