#TBT: Watch Chinchwürst Smash Facefirst into Every Luhmühlen Cross Country Fence

Sometimes, when we have nothing better to do, we take a trip down memory lane to a favorite EN post from over the years. This week’s comes the last time Wylie covered Luhmühlen in 2015, when her interpretation of professional coverage included such headlines as “Who Booty Is It? An Analysis of Luhmühlen’s Finest CCI4* Butts,” “Who Is Julien Despontin and How Is He Beating Michael Jung?,” “That 25 Year Old Is Still Beating the Pants Off Everybody” and “Ingrid Klimke Wins Christmas Wreath, Random Broom for Luhmühlen Victory.”

The same year, because there is only one true Chinch, and he was at Great Meadow, she recruited Chinchwürst, Chinch’s alcoholic German uncle, to help cover Luhmühlen.

Hallo, Chinchwurst. Photo by Leslie Wylie.

This is the story of what happened next. 

Glug glug glug zzzzzzz… Photo by Leslie Wylie.

From Wylie:

A couple weekends ago at Bromont, in lieu of our usual course walk, we sent Le Chinch on a mission to tackle the entire CCI3* course himself. Being only eight inches tall, it seemed an impossible feat.

We attempted to bolster his confidence by quoting passages from the great motivational speaker R. Kelly: “We believe you can fly! We believe you can touch the sky!”

And fly/touch the sky is what he did, reaching heights never before imagined for a tiny, not-that-aerodynamic stuffed animal. You can view the complete photo gallery here.

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Le Chinch’s CCI3* debut was a big hit with readers, especially readers with a demented sense of humor and too much time on their hands. So when we recruited Chinchwürst, Chinch’s alcoholic German uncle, to sub in as our furry foreign correspondent at Luhmühlen, part of the deal was that he had to reenact Le Chinch’s feat.

CCI3*, CCI4,* drunk, sober… I mean, it’s really not that big a difference, right?

Wrong.

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We apologize in advance.

OK, we lied. He didn’t smash into EVERY jump — just about 50% of the course. We felt morally obligated to cut him off after about his 10th concussion.

Go Chinchwürst. Go Eventing.

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