Monkeying Around fires a serious shot
“He’s a very active-brained horse; lockdown was hard – like a school child who is highly intelligent”
IZZY TAYLOR ON MONKEYING AROUND
Barefoot Retreats Burnham Market (3), Norfolk
IZZY TAYLOR achieved something at Burnham Market that no one else can do in 2020; she won a CCI4*-L on British soil. It might have been no-frills eventing, but she did it with style and certainty, adding nothing to her leading dressage mark of 23.2 on her own and Mark Sartori’s Monkeying Around.
The nine-year-old, who took the six-year-old World Championships at Le Lion d’Angers in 2017, is conspicuously talented but capricious. His performances here and at Burgham, where he was third in the CCI4*-S, show he is settling to the job.
“It’s very pleasing and exciting that one you’ve had high hopes for
