$30,000 Jersey/Fair Hill Challenge and Afternoon Notes

Here are a few quick afternoon notes from the mobile EN command center on I-75 in Southern Georgia.  By mobile command center, I mean a truck parked in a McDonald’s parking lot.  Here are a few notes to hopefully keep the afternoon running smoothly on EN while I finish the drive to Ocala.

–I have just gotten word that EN’s good friend John Nunn is offering $30,000 in prize money for a CCI3* “Bit of Britain Challenge.”  **$20,000 will be awarded to a horse and rider combination if they win both the CCI3* at Jersey and the CCI3* at Fair Hill this year.  Or, if any horse and rider combination can win the CCI2* at Jersey and the CCI3* at Dansko Fair Hill International they will get $15,000, and if a pair wins both CCI2*’s, they will win $10,000 in prize money.  Like the Triple Crown in racing, it’s a cool concept to generate publicity for eventing, although the odds of one pair winning both events are very very low.  In fact, I haven’t had a look at the results from the last 10 years, but I can’t remember any pair ever winning both events in the same year.

Accidental electrocution has been confirmed as the cause for the mysterious Newbury racecourse deaths on Saturday.  The necropsy reports show sudden cardiac arrest as the cause of death and officials have confirmed that:

There was leakage of electricity from a cable under the parade ring in the area where the incident occurred…These findings are all consistent with the cause of death being accidental electrocution and at this stage we are not investigating any other cause of death”  [Horse and Hound]

Jennie Brannigan has written a training session recap today in her Chronicle blog [COTH]

Jimmy Wofford’s show jumping book recommendations [3D3W]

–The Nebraska horse processing bill has been approved by the Nebraska Senate’s Agriculture Committee.  The bill seeks to make it possible for private horse ‘processing’ plants to reopen in the state.  The bill now moves on the full Nebraska Senate for debate.  [TheHorse.com]

In the interest of making it to Ocala at a reasonable hour, here are a few more short linked notes:

Photo’s of Bruce Davidson’s crew

Ben Hobday is getting ready for Badminton 

Horses that look like celebrities

The UK’s BEF Futurity Evaluation dates have been announced

Who’s who in Maryland eventing

Go eventing.

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