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By John on September 2, 2010 8:04 PM, Filed Under
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Earlier today we mentioned that Mary King missed a movement in her dressage test but continued and finished the test.  After she halted ground jury member Marilyn Payne walked out of the judging box and asked Mary to redo the test starting with the missed movement.  Of course the question is why did Mary finish her test in the first place?  The word from a very good source is that the dressage judges repeatedly rang the bell but that Mary continued her test.  Granted, the missed movement was towards the end of the test, but it is certainly a curious situation.

One thing I should have mentioned earlier today for our US readers is that EN favorites Michael Pollard and Wonderful Will had a fantastic dressage test and are tied for 10th after Thursday's action.

The online Burghley TV worked well for me when I tried it.  You have to register and sit through commercials for Joules, but they have all of the rides on demand.  Or, you could search Youtube for illicit personal videos from Burghley--

Pippa and Mirage dressage from Thursday:


WFP and Mark King chat about the dressage:

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I'm competing at Five Points in Southern Pines, NC on Friday and it looks like Hurricane Earl will miss us.  I wish our readers along the eastern seaboard, particularly near the Outer Banks and New York City, the best of luck on Friday.  Do you have any horse related hurricane survival stories?



Go eventing.
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Late night reader

By John on September 1, 2010 11:29 PM, Filed Under
It's late and I leave for Five Points on Thursday so here are a few quick late night notes.

Link: Burghley Scores--Dressage on Thursday from 4:30am to 11:30am ET


Ireland has named it's squad for the World Equestrian Games:

Mark Kyle - Step in Time (Owned by Tanya & Mark Kyle) 
Liz Power - Kilpatrick River (Owned by Dermot O'Rourke) 
Michael Ryan - Ballylynch Adventure (Owned by Carol & Tom Henry) 
Patricia Ryan - Fernhill Clover Mist (Owned by Carol & Tom Henry & Sheila Foley) 
Camilla Speirs - Portersize Just a Jiff (Owned by Bridget & Camilla Speirs) 
Sam Watson - Horseware Bushman (Owned by John & Julia Watson & Tom MacGuinness) 

Reserve riders: 
Jayne Doherty - The Only One (Owned by Jonathon Doherty) 
Capt. Geoff Curran - The Jump Jet (Owned by Maurice Cassidy & The Minister for Defence)

The full press release from Eventing Ireland has much more information, including pointing out that Ireland originally only planned to take 5 horses but reconfigured the transport plane to take 6.  The Irish coach, Ginny Elliot echoed a lot of other national coaches by pointing out that a big priority at the WEGs is to qualify for the 2012 Olympics with a top 5 placing, although these days I think that most riders consider winning the WEGs more of an achievement that winning the Olympics.
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The Germans have also named their WEG squad according to horseweb.de:

Andreas Dibowski - Butts Leon or FRH Fantasia 
Michael Jung - Sam 
Ingrid Klimke - Butts Abraxxas 
Frank Ostholt - Mr. Medicott 
Dirk Schrade - Gadget de la Cere 
Simone Deitermann - Free Easy NRW

Reserve: 
Kai Rüder with Leprince des Bois 
Anna Warnecke with Winkle Bee 
Andreas Ostholt with Franco Jeas 

The Germans have dominated the international eventing scene recently by winning the 2006 WEG and the 2008 Olympic team competitions, and heck, they nearly won the 2006 Olympics although I probably shouldn't bring that up.  Ingrid and Frank Ostholt were on both of those teams, and there's no doubt in my mind that Germany could win it again in Lexington.  The only question left in my mind tonight is where are the Hoys?  Thanks to RL for a heads up about the German team.

We have released the Ausie, Kiwi, Irish, and German WEG teams all in the same day and quite frankly I'm glad that we will be able to focus on Burghley for the next couple of days because I'm a little tired of writing about the WEGs.  
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In a story that absolutely begs for The Carrot's commentary, it appears that FEI President Princess Haya gave the FEI $30 million in 2008 to build its new headquarters.  I'm sure that if the FEI had released a press release about the donation back then we would have heard about it much sooner.  Go eventing.
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77 horses move on to Burghley dressage

By John on September 1, 2010 4:34 PM, Filed Under

We are well on our way to a five post day on Eventing Nation, which is really just a quick way of getting me to apply to law school.  But, eventing news doesn't care about my schedule and thus is life.  

As we all know, Burghley is this weekend.  The field will be more tame than last year because most of the world's best pairs are headed to the World Equestrian Games in just a few weeks, and only Oliver Townend uses four-stars as prep runs for other four-stars.  Speaking of Oliver, he has to be one of the favorites this year because he is riding last year's Burghley champion, Carousel Quest.  The pair fell in the Luhmuhlen water and Carousel Quest's health has been a question, but it's hard to pick against such a great rider on such a great horse. 

Two horses withdrew from the Burghley Wednesday jog after being held--Rachel Gough's Bow House Mandalin and Ben Hobday's Guna Be Good, according to the Horse and Hound.  Two other horses, Quixotic and Star Quality were held but passed on reinspection.

77 horses move onto the dressage, with British team members Nicola Wilson and Opposition Buzz riding the test ride Thursday morning.  It's hard to imagine what that horse couldn't jump.

As we reported last week, you can watch rides for free through Burghley.tv, which requires registration.


Of course, Eventing Nation will have complete coverage of Burghley throughout the weekend.  Go eventing.
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Good news Tuesday

By John on August 31, 2010 12:56 PM, Filed Under

I am very pleased to report that I have gotten word from the Loudoun horse trials secretary that the rider who was airlifted from Loundoun was released from the hospital Monday night.  Brittany suffered at least one cracked rib, a concussion, and other bumps and bruises in a rotational fall at an intermediate double bench combination on Sunday at Loundoun.  She was airlifted from the event after she reported painful breathing.  Considering the nature of the fall, it is a relief that she was released so quickly and all of Eventing Nation wishes her a speedy recovery.  

Will.groom.for.food will be handling our afternoon post and we will have Holly Hudspeth's guest blog from Richland later this evening.  Until then, here's to keeping our fingers crossed for a quiet afternoon of eventing news.  Go eventing.
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Sharon White is excited for Monday news and notes

By John on August 30, 2010 3:04 PM, Filed Under
I have always been told that I have a face for radio.  So when our friends at the Horse Radio Network asked me to come on their Stable Scoop radio show and chat about Hahahorses.com, I jumped at the opportunity.  I had a fun time, but in all honesty, I haven't listened to the show because I always get really critical of myself when I see or hear replays.  So, you might say I have a voice for writing, but you can hear the show below for yourself.

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You will remember today's photo on Hahahorses as being featured on Eventing Nation's Omega Alpha caption contest.  If you entered that contest, you are welcome to reuse your captions, just please submit the same email address so we can verify the entry.

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In other news, Sharon White and Rafferty's Rules continued their Blenheim prep today by competing in the Highclere advanced.   The competition was held on Monday because it was a bank holiday--Badminton finished on Monday this year for the same reason.  Sharon told me before the event that she was planning to just do the combined test.  Rafferty's Rules got a 34 in the dressage and would have finished towards the top of the division just looking at the combined test scores.  Sharon also mentioned that they have ferret racing at Highclere, as if the XC wasn't exciting enough.  Link:  Highclere Results
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Monday Reader

By John on August 30, 2010 10:14 AM, Filed Under
One thing is clear: it's an exciting time to be an eventer.  We have Burghley this coming weekend, then the AECs in two weekends, and the World Equestrian Games in just under a month.  Michael Pollard and Wonderful Will are still on the Burghley entries list as of Monday morning, so hopefully our US readers will have a rooting interest in Burghley.  Also, the word is that Peter Atkins and Henry are reserves for the Australian team.  I'm glad to see that the Aussie selectors took our advice, and Eventing Nation is one step closer to getting a helmet-cam video of the WEG course.

If you are still looking for hotel tickets for the WEGs you are in luck.  The Canadian Team has a small number of rooms available from Sept 28 to October 3 (incl) at the Marriott Griffin Gate in Lexington. The rate is $325 per night.  The GG is one of the best hotels in Lexington, and I am told that it has sold out of all other rooms at $450-500.  The teams all made reservations years in advance, and I guess the Canadians have a few extra.  I think they might throw in an official Team Canada hat designed by yours truly if you buy the rooms.  If you are interested, contact Sandra DeGraff @ 613-248-3433 xt 109 and please reference Eventing Nation, I think they have heard of us.

Check out Doug Payne's helmet cam of the Richland CIC3* course:



Go eventing.
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Bruce is Back

By John on August 27, 2010 12:08 PM, Filed Under

Photo courtesy of USEA archives

It's a beautiful cool summer day here at Richland Park today.  I wish I had remembered to pack bug spray but I'm still very excited for a great weekend at Richland.  I would like to wish a big EN "good luck" to all of the competitors who are eventing at Richland and elsewhere this weekend.  Also, thanks to the EN Team for holding down the fort while I was traveling on Thursday, and thank you, as always, for making EN part of your day. 

We will be talking a lot about selection for the WEGs over the next couple of days, but perhaps my favorite storyline of the weekend has nothing to do with short lists or Kentucky in October.  Bruce Davidson is returning to big time eventing at Richland with Cruise Lion in the CIC3* and Petite Flower in the CIC2*.  The Godfather had back surgery in March, and I know we all have deeply missed his riding at events this year, especially at Rolex.  Eventing just wasn't eventing without Bruce in the saddle.  Cruise Lion didn't make it past the 7th fence at Bromont with Buck, but I expect a much different result this weekend.  Cruise Lion sits in 9th going into the cross country.  We will have much more from Richland later today.  Go eventing.

Link: Live Richland Scores
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