Saut Hermès 2025 !

 

Enfin! I went to SAUT HERMÈS 🐎 Saturday night 👏

First time back at Grand Palais after a 4-year restoration.

Hunting buglers🎵 greeted us at the entrance!

Inside the main jumping competition ring is

Surrounded by 

Various and sundry (pretend ride a horsy?)

Horsy 🐎 activities (photo 📸 anyone?)

Like shopping for Hermès scarves 🧣 

The specially designed scarf limited edition for this year’s SAUT HERMÈS.

A bookstore for horsey 🐎 books 📚 

A saddle maker to ask questions about your saddle care etc.

Or pose attractively nearby…

What to wear? Leather and an orange Hermès shopping bag…

 Or a Ponytail & boots.

There was pony petting for kiddies 👦 

The first session was…sheep 🐑 herding with sheepdogs. Whistles were blown. The dogs ran all over. The sheep obeyed.

Then we took a break while they set up the jumping rails.

I went and hung out at the paddock where the horses 🐎 warm up.

You can chat with the riders. This equestrian was Austrian. Her horse did dance steps in the ring like a Lipinzzaner.🐎

I sketched ✍️ madly.

 I could have stayed in the paddock all night.

At last the ring was ready. Each jumping session is timed. 

The fastest rider with no errors wins 🏆 

My pictures came out awful..sitting up in row X.

You can watch on Youtube …like being there.

It’s bloomin’ excitingly! 

You hold your breath as a 1000-pound horse sails over spindly rails without knocking them over. 

Absolute silence reigns.

Anyone can attend if you can find a ticket 🎟️ I tried in January. Hermès’s site said complet, but FNAC also sells tickets. 

I paid 70€ Worth it.

The winners 🏆 wear orange Hermès blankets.

There’s a break and afterwards a beautifully choreographed show by Bartabus and the horsewomen of the National Equestrian Academy of Versailles. What a treat! 

Almost midnight. I turned into a pumpkin 🎃

I ran home to start drawing.