With 9 USEA events this weekend, the CHIO World Equestrian Festival in Aachen, Germany, and Canada getting their selecting on this morning, it’s all hands on deck at the EN compound today. The World Equestrian Festival at Aachen has a reputation for being one of the nicest horse shows in all of Europe. The show has been running all week and boasts 380 riders from 27 nations competing in dressage, show jumping, vaulting, eventing, and driving. 350,000 spectators are expected for the week in total. Eventing will do dressage and show jumping on Friday and cross-country on Saturday as part of a very prestigious team CICO3* competition. It’s unfortunate that North America doesn’t participate in eventing at the WEF, but we can still enjoy following all of the action from home. [Aachen Entries PDF, Teams, Calendar]
Here are a few other Thursday afternoon links…
Live Stuart Scores: The novice divisions are riding dressage and XC today
Kim Severson blogs about the test event and Wiley Post coming back into work
Jennie sold a horse in 48 hours and Connaught heads to Bruce Duchossois’ farm for retirement
Another drunk carriage driver in England
An 8th horse tested positive for the hendra virus in Australia
Video animation of the show jumping Nations Cup course at Aachen:
Lastly, check out show jumper Ashley Prusak at Spruce Meadows losing her stirrups after the triple…no stirrups, no problem
Go eventing.
