14 December 2009 Landmarks: December 12th & 13th
by Carolyn Tanner
It was a case of "anything you can do" at Wadebridge on Saturday, when Lucy Pugsley matched the success of her sister Emma a fortnight earlier.
Lucy, 18, who is working for Jeremy and Camilla Scott in her gap year prior to going to University in the autumn, triumphed on her first ride, as Emma had done, when Fully Loaded won the Novice Riders' race at the Cornwall Hunt Club.
"I had something to live up to, but I wasn't expecting it - I just wanted to get round safely," was Lucy's modest appraisal.
Fully Loaded, on whom the sisters will take alternate rides, is trained for their parents Andrew and Linda by the latter's father Gerald Greenway, and is the first horse to score twice in the current season.
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Trainer Samantha Pearce, 19, also enjoyed an initial success, saddling her first runner, Cat Six, to take the 2m4f Maiden Division Two at Alnwick under Liam Payter. Cat Six and David Roberts's other runner Monkey Massini - "he was going well until I wobbled off him!" said Liam - had travelled overnight from their yard near Shrewsbury.
With Cat Six being ready to run, connections were tempted north by the prospect of good ground and the fact that the shorter distance would be in her favour.
The journey home that night, though, took longer than anticipated. "The sat nav went on the blink," explained Samantha, "so we had to keep getting the road atlas out. It took us six and a half hours."
