Unlike here on the rainy East coast, competitors at the Galway three-day and horse trials enjoyed beautiful weather on Thursday. The Temecula, California forecast predicts sunny weather with highs in the 70’s and 80’s all weekend long.
All of the CCI3* horses passed the jog Thursday afternoon and a field of just under 20 horses will compete in the CCI3* dressage on Friday afternoon. In addition to the CCI3*, galway is hosting a CCI2*, CCI1*, CCI* classic, a horse trials through prelim, and a T3DE with so many competitors that they made two divisions. The CCI*, open prelim, and prelim rider divisions started on Thursday with Tamara Smith, Maxance McManamy, and Breann Hall leading their respective divisions thus far.
Link: Galway times and scores
Several Eventing Nation sponsors, including Point Two and SmartPak are generously supporting Galway. Point Two is sponsoring a West coast series of events this year since the company is based on the East coast but wanted to support WC eventing. Craig will be out at Galway this weekend so stop by and ask him for a Point Two demo.
Jennie Brannigan took this and the top photo for us–her EN Karma couldn’t be higher right now.
Speaking of traveling to Galway, I was extremely excited to go this year and even purchased the plane ticket. But after last week’s hospital visit we are still awaiting some test results for my Mother and I have decided to stay in VA for the weekend. I still love you California, especially California girls, but I’ll just have to love you from a distance this weekend. Chelan will be writing about the event for Eventing Nation all weekend and she does a much better job than me anyway.
Lastly, check out a great Galway video from Josh Walker:
Go eventing.
