大象传媒

I'm starting to wish I hadn't been shouting my mouth off about Team GB's eventing medal chances!

The words ''clean sweep'' and ''all five in the top 10'' have been uttered more than a couple of times by me over the last few weeks.

However after William Fox-Pitt and Daisy Dick's dressage tests this morning I am wondering if Britain will be lucky to win a bronze.

William's wife Alice Plunkett described Parkmore Ed's performance as the worst she's ever seen and William himself admitted he was lucky to get just 50 penalty points.

I think it's generally agreed amongst the experts here in Hong Kong that his score could have been a lot worse.

William blamed Ed's excitement and spookiness which also contributed to Daisy's under-performance.

But there's no need to be too gloomy.

Britain still have the superb talents of Mary King, Tina Cook and Sharon Hunt to go and don't forget only three of their five scores count towards the team medals.

It's just the sight of Lucinda and Clayton Fredericks' names on the top of the leaderboard that is giving British fans the wibble wobbles.

Those two are clear favourites for Australia now. Lucinda's performance on her much-loved little horse Headley Britannia was particularly good, she even scored a perfect ten for one movement.

But as William said after his test: "It's not just a dressage competition.''

And of course he's right. Eventing is a triathlon of equestrian sport.

The cross country and show-jumping should be as important as the dressage.

This was just not the start Britain had hoped for and if the eventing team are going to win any medals here this summer, the last three to go have a lot of catching up to do.