Photo courtesy of the amazing Jade Cooling
The story of the weekend in North America is the success of the long format events at the Midsouth Team Challenge and the Waredaca Training Three-Day. We have been writing about the long format events as a wonderful educational experience and a tremendous amount of fun since the beginning here at EN and I am very excited to see that they had such success this weekend. On Monday we will hear from a T3DE rider, but until then here are the news and notes from a great weekend of Eventing.
(1) At the Midsouth CCI* short format held at the Kentucky Horse Park, Kristin Rozycki and Full Circle finished on their dressage score of 47.2 to take the victory. Kirsten Bjorge won the prelim three-day with Life Is Good. The prelim three-day only had 6 starters and a trend that I have seen is that the training three-days have way more entrants than their prelim counterparts. The T3DE at Midsouth had 34 starters and Erin Branigan of Canada won that division with Tiger Lilly on an impressive 34.7.
(2) In the prelim team challenge at Midsouth, the “Best of the Bluegrass” team lived up to their name with the win. The “Oh Canada!” team did not find the same success that the Canadian team had at the Horse Park just a few weeks ago and finished the weekend in 6th. For full individual and team results from Midsouth, click here.
Video from the Midsouth show jumping:
(3) The training three-day at Waredaca wrapped up on Saturday with Nicole Coffey and Contortionist winning the A division, Dawn Beach and Sudden Ecliple winning the B division, and Brooke Baugher and Smoke Signal winning the C division. In true eventing form, the three riders only added 4 penalties total to their dressage scores over the weekend. Link: full T3DE results
(4) In the Waredaca Open Prelim-B division, Phillip placed 6 horses in the top 7 of the division.
(5) Turning to eventing news from France, Andreas Dibowski placed first and second aboard Mighty Magic and FRH Butts Avedon respectively at the Mondial du Lion CCI2*. WEG bronze medalist Andrew Nicholson placed third aboard Quimbo. Canadian Lindsay Pearce was the only North American competitor at the event and finished an impressive 15th in the CCI2* with her mare Saniki. Lindsay is a good friend of mine and has written occasionally for Eventing Nation, I am glad to see she is having a great time working with her coach in England, Lucy Wiegersma. I traded emails with Lindsay’s Mom who wrote “It was a fantastic event with huge crowds up to 10 deep at favorite fences like Le Cottage – a huge drop shaped like a house roof with a skinny chevron brush at the bottom! Ooh-la-la!!!” Link: Mondial results
(7) One trend I have noticed this year is that team challenges and training three-days have been incredibly popular. This is something to keep in mind as we look to grow eventing and I expect to see more of both formats in the near future. Go eventing.
