Here’s one EN reader who broke out the face-paint to support team USA on Saturday
It’s late, but we are so close to crowning WEG individual and team champions that I can hardly sleep! We have a few developments from a couple of notes I made Friday evening from the cross-country so let’s get right to them.
Note–The jog is scheduled for 9:00am and the show jumping starts at 1:00pm ET. The cross-country start times changed several times this week, so nothing would surprise me, but that is the current schedule.
Patricia Ryan and Fernhill Clover Mist: The rumor from multiple sources is that Fernhill Clover Mist may have stepped on an electrical cable and punctured through the protective casing with his stud, thus causing a shock that presumably made him to run off with Patricia. To make the situation more interesting, the FEI released a veterinary statement Saturday night that “an injury occurred to [Fernhill Clover Mist’s] left hock while he was galloping between fences on course. The statement says the horse is expected to improve but does not explain what the injury is, what caused the injury, or whether the injury occurred before or after Fernhill Clover Mist ran away with Patricia at a full out gallop for several hundred meters.
Paul Tapner and Inonothing: The only other item in the aforementioned veterinary statement is confirmation that Inonothing fractured his left hind patella on the XC and that the horse is expected to recover from the injury. I have known several horses with that injury that have come back and been fine at the advanced level.
The outrider: I still have not heard why the outrider horse was transported, but I did get confirmation that the horse was laying down, tarps were put around it, and then the horse walked onto the trailer under it’s own power. Apparently some of the outriders commented that their horses had been out in the sun for many hours without any water to drink.
From the amazing Buzzterbrown
Courtesy of Pegasus444444
Link: Interview with Becky
Go eventing.
