One last look at beautiful Barbury
Over 100 competitors started out on the Barbury show jumping. The sobering reality of our sport is that out of that many horses starting on a CIC3* course, not all of them are going to come home as sound as they started. Amazingly, according to the score sheet, only one horse officially fell at Barbury, although my estimate is that a couple more shoulders touched the ground. 4 horses at Barbury were injured on the cross-country and this is a quick update on each of them, courtesy of the officials at Barbury.
Livingstone II, ridden by Swedish rider Ludwig Svennerstal, completed the course but was found to be lame at the finish. The horse was transported by horse ambulance to the on-site veterinary treatment center where he was radiographed. The results showed the horse to be bruised but not seriously injured. The horse stayed on site Sunday night, rather than taking the long journey home to Yorkshire.
Bank on Louie, unseated Britain’s Rosie Fry and suffered serious soft tissue damage in a wound to the chest after running through the string stakes marking out the galloping lanes. The horse was given intravenous fluids and stabilized at the on-site veterinary treatment center before being transported to the Willesley Veterinary Centre in Tetbury for the wound to be repaired.
Sir Roscoe, a 12 year old gelding, unseated British rider Gaby Cooke and walked back to the stables, where he was subsequently found to be lame. He was later found to be fine and went home Sunday night.
Coolys Luxury, ridden by Tom Crisp, was the last horse to fall in the main water before it was removed from the course. The horse is reportedly very bruised with a haematoma and is being re-assessed this morning.
Thankfully, all of the riders are fine.
We never like to see horses being injured, but from the number of holds we had on course Sunday, I consider this injury report to be about as positive as we could have hoped for. We wish the recovering horses a very speedy road to recovery and look forward to seeing them out on the eventing circuit soon.
Today is a travel day for me as I head back to the States. The rest of the EN Team will be around throughout the day bringing you your Monday eventing news and ridiculousness. See you soon.
