Now, getting down to business, the riders and officials met Friday afternoon to discuss the Rolex course and especially the footing. Officials lowered the A element into the sunken road by two inches and they have put down a lot of sand/gravel around 15B of the double corners but as of now there are no plans to remove any of the elements from the course due to footing. The footing is perfect in the high areas but it gets wet in the lower areas and especially where the water has been draining downhill. The weather is expected to be dry through Saturday so it will only improve from here and every effort is being made to get as much water off the course as possible.
Now for a few dressage recap and looking ahead to cross-country links:
The Herald Leader: “Brits reign” at Rolex today
Jimmy Wofford’s Jump by Jump Analysis
VIDEO: Friday press conference
Chronicle Dressage Recap
Loose horse at the royal wedding
Friday dressage photos via Rolex
Classic Communications Thursday press release
Mark Todd calls the course “fair”
Samantha Clark: rider’s eye view of the course for Horse and Hound
Ecogold has a ton of cool things on their blog including Q&A’s with riders and their bloggers
Riding invitations to the royal wedding
The new safety top hats are not ASTM approved
–Update: Join Hannah Burnett and Boyd for an autograph signing at the Devoucoux booth in the main trade fair Saturday at 3pm ET.
Video of Boyd and Allison’s course walk from our friends at SmartPak:
William’s dressage test has been put online by Youtube user Pegasus4444:
Go eventing.