It’s show jumping Sunday at Rebecca Farm, and you can follow all the action here at EN:
Word from the jog is that First Mark was held and then spun, but everyone else passed. Also, I just got a text that number 516 (Federico Daners) was unbraided in the CIC3* jog. I’m not too worried about it, although if Visionaire were around today I think she might have a heart attack. I have just never heard of an unbraided horse at a 3* jog.
Tiana Coudray explains the interesting situation regarding Ringwood Magister’s ‘refusal’ in her blog. Apparently she got off her line and jumped through the flag on the skinny out of the sunken road. Tiana didn’t know whether they were going to count a refusal so she (smart) circled and asked the jump judge. Unfortunately, the jump judge didn’t know either and a lot of time was wasted before they finally told her she had a stop. She jumped the alternate and carried on, but had the 20 penalties and a lot of time. Of course, if she hand continued with her course and jumped the next jump and they had counted her with the refusal she would have been eliminated, but I wonder if the jump judge would have just watched her gallop off and said she was clear. In those situations it’s usually a question of how big your ‘halo’ is (as Jimmy calls it).
The CIC3* show jumping starts at 3:20PM ET, and I’m going to go out on a limb and predict that either Mandiba or TruLuck will win. The good news for Karen is that she has some major EN Karma going after yesterday’s live blog. As for the advanced division, we all know what I think about Titanium’s jumping style, but Buck makes it work somehow and Titanium’s show jumping is rapidly improving.
Go eventing.
