Clark Montgomery and Universe show jumping at the Fork, photo by Samantha Clark
The top 20 still have to show jump at Boekelo– will Michael Jung hang on for the win? He has a rail in hand over Andrew Nicholson. The US riders have already finished their show jumping, with modest results.
Clark Montgomery had one rail each with Loughan Glen and Universe. Jon Holling just missed a clear round, picking up a single time fault. Jennie Brannigan and Cambalda had two down. Clear rounds seem to be few and far between– eight clears out of the 75 jumped so far.
UPDATE:
In a slightly shocking development, Ze Terminator (Michael Jung) had two rails to fall to second place behind Andrew Nicholson and Quimbo, who turned in one of the very few double clear show jumping rounds to leap-frog Michael into the winner’s position. If you’ll harken back all the way to Barbury this year before the Olympics, Andrew pulled a one-two, winning the CIC*** with Avebury and a close second with Quimbo.
Although I am a little disappointed to not be able to write “Ze Terminator does it again!”, it’s nice to know that he’s human (I’m still skeptical) and everybody has rails sometimes after running an extremely taxing and muddy cross country the day before.
The show jumping was extremely challenging, with only 13 pairs going double clean out of 100 remaining competitors this morning.
The U.S. jumped two spots to finish in 6th place overall in Nation’s Cup Standings. Germany won the gold, with New Zealand taking 2nd place and France in 3rd.
