We are through the First Horse Inspection at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, and all 34 horses and riders have passed the inspection of the Ground Jury consisting of Sandy Phillips (GBR), Robert Stevenson (USA), and Marina Sciocchetti Campello (ITA).
For the team draw, we’ll see the U.S. riders out first in rotation, and the Canadians last (9th) in the order. The full drawn order by country is:
1. USA
2. Ecuador
3. Brazil
4. Uruguay
5. Mexico
6. Chile
7. Colombia
8. Argentina
9. Canada
You can view the list of dressage start times here. All dressage will be completed tomorrow (Friday, October 27) beginning at 11 a.m. Chilean time / 10:00 a.m. EST.
Sydney Elliott and QC Diamantaire will be the first pair down centerline and also the first out of the start box on Saturday’s cross country. Mike Winter and El Mundo will be the first for the Canadians.
You can follow the Pan Ams action live on ClipMyHorse.TV all week. I’ll drop the schedule (subject to change) below. Please note, your USEF linked account for ClipMyHorse.TV will not give you access to this stream. You’ll want to subscribe separately for this and access to on-demand footage from events like Maryland, etc.
Friday, October 27:
10:55 a.m. local / 9:55 a.m. ET / 6:55 a.m. PT: Dressage [Start Times] [Live Stream] [Timing & Scoring]
Saturday, October 28
10:55 a.m. local / 9:55 a.m. ET / 6:55 a.m. PT: Cross Country [Live Stream] [Timing & Scoring]
Sunday, October 29
12:55 p.m. local / 11:55 a.m. ET / 8:55 a.m. PT: Show Jumping + Medals [Live Stream] [Timing & Scoring]
Follow along with EN’s coverage of the Pan American Games, presented by Ocala Horse Properties, here. We also recommend following @usefeventing on Instagram and Facebook as well as @canadianeventingteam for more content from on the ground, as well as roving photographer Shannon Brinkman here.
#Santiago2023: [Website] [Eventing Timing & Scoring] [Entries] [Live Stream] [EN’s Coverage]
Thanks to our friends at CrossCountryApp, we also have a first look at incoming Olympic designer Pieree le Goupil’s course, which will be set at CCI3*-L technical specifications. The optimum time for the track is 8 minutes, 3 seconds with a total of 35 jumping efforts. We’ll be back tomorrow with a more comprehensive course preview, so stay tuned!
This article will be updated with more photos, so keep checking back!
