Abbie linked to the free live video feed from the Saumur CCI3* in France last night, but I think it deserves its own post. US Olympic hopefuls Tiana Coudray and Ringwood Magister start out on course in just a few minutes. The USA’s Jules Stiller is riding two horses at Saumur. She was eliminated earlier today for three refusals on Enjoy Me and is scheduled to ride Chapel Amble at 11:08 am ET. Canada’s Lindsay Pearce had a great ride with Saniki this morning, picking up no jumping and just 14.4 time faults to move up the leaderboard. Lindsay rides Candar van het Neerveld around 11:30.
There was a significant hold on the course today after Clayton Fredericks took a fall on Be My Guest. Early word from Saumur was that the horse is ok and Clayton might have been stepped on–we’re wishing the best to Clayton and hopefully he will be able to ride his 3rd placed horse later today. The technical Saumur course has been riding really tough with no double-clears so far.
[Live Saumur XC Scores, CIC2* Photos from Updtown Eventing]
It’s an exciting day of eventing with a bunch of great events here in North America and Saumur in France. As always, stay tuned to EN for the latest eventing news and ridiculousness. Go eventing.
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Update 10:35 am — Tiana and Finn finished the course provisionally with one runout at 15b and 13 time penalties.
Update 10:52 — Notably for British high performance, Laura Collett and Rayeff were eliminated when Laura fell at her second attempt at #25.
Update 11:45 — Julian Stiller and Chapel Amble were eliminated. Lindsay Pearce and Candar van het Neerveld finished with 20 jumping and 46 time.
