7:40 Update: The scoring issue is apparently related to two time penalties that were given to Ali and Last Call for leaving the box early. It appears that those two time penalties have been removed for now, giving Ali the provisional win. Hawley and Ali have worked together for a long time and are great friends, so there’s certainly no bad blood about the results either way. For now, the scores are still very much provisional.
7:10pm Update: After an hour of showing Alexandra Slusher and Last Call with a costly two time penalties and after the scores went ‘final’ on the live scoring page, Last Call’s two seconds have been taken away, which would give her the Galway win. According to the USEA’s website, a “discrepancy in timing” was resolved and the new scores are now final, but the scoring page has returned to ‘provisional’ and it seems like the scores are still provisional. Hawley and Ginny would move into second place if the timing changes stand, and, either way, they had a great weekend along with Ali and Last Call. We’ll keep you updated with the latest.
James Alliston and Jumbo’s Jake posted the only other double-clear of the day and moved into third. Hawley and Ginny of couse represented Canada at the World Equestrian Games last autumn and the great weekend at Galway sets them up perfectly for their scheduled trip to Badminton in just a couple of weeks. Hawley won the CIC2* division on Ginny’s full brother.
–In the CIC3* John Michael Durr and Warrick had a fall at fence #16 according to the live scores. The Galway press office twitter feed said that Warrick was up and walking and looked fine and that John was up but was put back down by EMTs and walked into an ambulance under his own power, and that they were later seen walking around back at the barns “a bit scraped up but ok.” 4 CIC3* riders picked up stops, giving Ian Stark’s course a pretty good ration of starts to stops.
–James Alliston and Parker II won the advanced horse trials division by 11 points over their two other competitors. The pair is entered at Rolex so we will hopefully see them soon in Kentucky.
–Hawley won the CIC2* on 5 O’Clock Somewhere, a horse that I would bet Chelan named. Interestingly enough 5 O’Clock Somewhere is a full sibing of Gin & Juice. Hawley had one of just a few double-clears in that division as well.
–The CIC* cross-country is just underway.
–With the CIC divisions concluded, the horse trial divisions at Galway get all the attention for the rest of the weekend. The novice to training divisions have XC tomorrow and the prelim and intermediate divisions show jump tomorrow.
–We’ll have a report from Chelan later with all the fun from Galway as well as more from the other events this weekend. Until then, go Cats.
