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Eventers Take Top 2018 Equestrian Canada National Award Honors

By on Mar 17, 2018 1:00 pm -

Selena O’Hanlon and Foxwood High in the 2018 Red Hills CIC3*. Photo by Leslie Wylie.

Equestrian Canada (EC) has announced its 2017 National Award recipients and eventers topped multiple categories. The recipients will be honored during the 2018 Awards Reception, taking place April 7 at the EC Convention in Ottawa, ON.

Join us in congratulating …

Equestrian of the Year – The Dr. George Jacobson Trophy
Selena O’Hanlon

Owner of the Year
John & Judy Rumble

Canadian Bred Horse of the Year
Foxwood High
Owner: John & Judy Rumble
Breeder: Hugh Graham

Go Team Woody! 2017 was a fantastic year for the 15-year-old Canadian Sport Horse, by Rio Bronco W out of Evita II and bred in Canada by Hugh Graham of Epstein Equestrian, ridden by Selena O’Hanlon and owned by John and Judy Rumble.

In addition to Selena and Woody’s historic win in the Fair Hill International CCI3*, becoming the first Canadian combination to do so, they won Red Hills Advanced, finished 11th at Kentucky CCI4* as the highest placed Canadian pair, placed fifth in the Nations Cup at Great Meadow CICO3* and finished third in the Plantation Field CIC3*. Woody finished outside the top 10 just once in the 2017 season, which saw him named 2017 USEA Advanced Horse of the Year. He was also nominated for 2017 EquiRatings Horse of the Year and was voted 2017 Eventing Nation Horse of the Year in a decisive victory.

The pair is already on a roll for 2018, having been named to the 2018 Equestrian Canada Eventing High Performance National Squad and finishing fourth at last week’s Red Hills CIC3*.

Congrats to Woody and all his connections!

Tosca-Holmes-Smith-Fiat in the Intermediate division at Twin Rivers Winter Horse Trials earlier this month. Photo by Sherry Stewart.

Junior Equestrian of the Year – The Gillian Wilson Trophy, Presented by Asmar Equestrian
Tosca Holmes-Smith

Tosca Holmes-Smith of Chase, BC, is the 2017 recipient of the Junior Equestrian of the Year Award, given to a junior who has excelled in competition while demonstrating exceptional talent, horsemanship and dedication to equestrian sport. Fun fact: Tosca’s sister Carmen won the award last year!

After first moving up to the FEI level in 2014, Tosca has represented Canada at NAJYRC for the past three consecutive years, with 2017 proving to be one for the books. Partnered with Fiat (Cats at Home x With Approval), a 14-year-old Thoroughbred gelding owned by Ali Holmes-Smith, Tosca claimed the individual gold medal and led the Canadian Junior Team to a bronze medal finish in the CH-J 1* division. Tosca kicked off NAJYRC 2017 with an eighth place finish in dressage on a score of 47.2 penalties, then shot up to third after a double-clear effort on cross country. She ultimately claimed victory on her dressage score after sealing the deal with a foot-perfect show jumping round.

NAJYRC was a crowning achievement among a list of many accolades Tosca earned in 2017. She also finished the season as the Horse Trials British Columbia (HTCB) Intermediate Champion aboard Fiat, plus picked up the Preliminary Young Rider Champion title aboard Tom Riddle, a 12-year-old New Zealand Thoroughbred gelding also owned by Ali. In addition, Tosca was the recipient of the 2017 HTBC Young Rider of Distinction Perpetual Trophy, dedicated to the memory of Jordan McDonald.

Known for her kindness, positivity and great sense of humor, Tosca was described by her nominators as having “blossomed into an exceptional elite athlete who is a kind and willing soul, and always willing to pitch in a hand to help her fellow young riders.” Tosca is also well known for always putting her horses first. Whether in the saddle or the stable, the horse’s well-being is always the number one priority for Tosca. Congrats, Tosca!

Other 2017 EC National Award recipients include:

Gold Medal Award
Susan Grange

Lifetime Achievement Award
Susan Grange

Volunteer of the Year, Presented by Henry Equestrian
The Centaur Red Team

Canadian Breeder of the Year, Presented by John Deere
Karyne Lord

Equestrian Canada Health & Welfare Award
Dr. Mary Bell

Equestrian Canada Media Award – The Susan Jane Anstey Trophy
CBC Sports

The 2018 EC Awards Committee is comprised of Carla Robin (Chair), Jennifer Anstey, Michael Boyd, Erin Lundteigen, and Karen Sparks. The Awards Ceremony will be held at the Brookstreet Hotel on April 7 and will feature a reception, presentations, including the 2017 Year in Review, as well as a live band and Brookstreet’s renowned food and hospitality. For more information, visit the EC website here.

[Equestrian Canada National Award Recipients Announced: Come Celebrate at the 2018 Awards Reception!]

Sport Horse Nation Spotlight: 5 More Thoroughbreds Ready for Their Next Chapter

By on Mar 17, 2018 9:00 am -

In the market for a new four-legged partner? You may find your unicorn on our sister site, Sport Horse Nation. To help with the search, we’re going to feature a selection of current listings here on EN each week. We include the ad copy provided; click the links for videos, pricing and contact information.

Last week we featured five Thoroughbreds ready for new heights. This week we’re featuring five more!

Hieronymus B. Photo via Sport Horse Nation.

Athletic OTTB with loads of untapped potential

Hieronymus B. is an 8 year old, 16.1 hand, OTTB gelding. Completed the novice at Rocking Horse III with 3 solid phases, including a very impressive xc run. Definitely has the talent and scope for more! Not for a green rider as he is a sensitive horse. Hiro is an athletic and very willing horse with a sweet personality. A pleasure to have in the barn. In a professional program this season-tuned up and ready to move up the levels! Could also be competitive in the jumper ring. Located in Florida.

Rossini’s Concerto. Photo via Sport Horse Nation.

Rossini’s Concerto – fun, safe ottb gelding

Rossini’s Concerto, 2010 bay 16.1hh ottb gelding by Rossini out of Key Approval, USEA#171232. Ross is an honest, safe gelding perfect for either an amateur or young rider looking for a horse that is sound, fit, and ready to compete. He is a straightforward, supple ride on the flat with nice movement.

Ross is a super fun horse to jump as he is careful and quiet with great adjustability. His bravery and athleticism makes him a xc machine as he has never had a refusal on or off property. Hacks out on the buckle with no spin/bolt. Sweet and easy to handle on the ground at home and at shows; loads, vets, shoes, clips, cross ties like a pro. Finished top 3 in 3/5 novices in 2017 and is ready to move up. Located in Georgia.

Philanthromister. Photo via Sport Horse Nation.

Talented 6yr old TB w/ upper level potential – “Philanthromister”

“Phil” is one seriously special OTTB! 6yrs old, 16.2 – He is competing successfully at Novice level and in his first USEA event he produced a 24 dressage and jumped a classy double clear. He competes in all three phases in a nathe snaffle and is very relaxed and polite at the show and at home.

This horse has serious talent to go on up the levels, but he is also a very easy ride and totally genuine, and would suit an amateur/ young rider as well as a professional. He has very clean legs, excellent feet and bone and has been an absolute pleasure to produce. He will easily go up the levels in eventing and is sure to become someones horse of a lifetime! Located in Florida.

Lion. Photo via Sport Horse Nation.

Talented Young Event Horse

Lion is a talented 16.1hh thoroughbred gelding. He moves well, has a great brain, and a very willing personality. He has spent the last 2 winter seasons successfully competing and schooling in Aiken, South Carolina. He has 3 great gates and is very broke and well schooled on the flat. Lion is very willing and showing scope and promise over the jumps. He is a great cross country horse as he’s very adjustable and brave. Located in Ontario.

Vino. Photo via Sport Horse Nation.

Athletic SCOPEY 6 yo 16h OTTB Bay Tb Gelding

Blame It On Vino (aka Vinny) Restarted by 4* Eventer Ashley Johnson. Training with 4* trainer, Jennie Jarnstrom who rode him at his 1st Horse Trial at Rocking Horse in February 2018 in OBN. Vinny’s dressage score of 33.3, double clear-stadium, and a couple green moments on XC that kept him out of the ribbons. He will be showing at Rocking Horse Spring Horse Trial with Jennie Jarnstrom.

He is full bodied, very athletic, brave to the jumps, great work ethic, quiet mind, with lead changes. Jennie believes he easily has the scope to do Training and potentially more. Jumps banks up and down, ditches, water, and trakehners. Vinny has great feet, barefoot and very SOUND. Passed recent vetting and Xrays. Loads, clips, bathes and stands tied till you need him. Located in Florida.

Listings included in this article are randomly selected and confirmed to be current and active before inclusion. Sport Horse Nation features user-generated content and therefore cannot verify or make any warranty as to the validity or reliability of information.

St. Patrick’s Day Saturday Links from Tipperary

By on Mar 17, 2018 12:01 am -

Senan Bourke meets his new BFF. Photo via Bourke Eventing on Facebook.

The newest member of Bourke Eventing is not a four-star prospect, but he’ll be one of the most treasured horses on the farm just the same. Tim and Marley Bourke welcomed their newest addition, Peanut, to the farm yesterday and their son, Senan, couldn’t wait to get ahold of his lead rope! We can’t wait to see more adorable photos of this dynamic duo!

National Holiday: St. Patrick’s Day!

U.S. Weekend Action:

Pine Top Spring H.T. [Website] [Entry Status] [Ride Times] [Live Results]

Ocala Winter II H.T. [Website] [Entry Status] [Ride Times] [Live Results]

MeadowCreek Park H.T. [Website] [Entry Status] [Ride Times] [Live Results]

Copper Meadows Winter H.T. [Website] [Entry Status/Ride Times/Live Scores]

Saturday Links:

Kentucky CSI3* Invitational Grand Prix Accepted Riders

Featured Clinician: Kelley Williams

Will This Be Mark Todd’s Final Fling?

The Art of Design: The B & C Jumping/Course Design Training Program

What Does My Trainer Actually Mean When She Says ‘Engage Your Core’?

Winner of highest division at Red Hills talks horses, imagination and her broken foot

Saturday Video: Morning yoga, anyone?

Morning yoga

Posted by Julie Rogers on Sunday, March 11, 2018

Friday Video from World Equestrian Brands: Getting Piggy With It

By on Mar 16, 2018 6:34 pm -

Piggy French and Quarrycrest Echo. Photo by Jenni Autry.

How brilliant was Piggy French‘s 2017? A spate of strong results – and a string of serious international horses – placed her firmly back on the map after missing the 2016 season to have baby Max. She clocked up four international wins – her highest tally in a season in ten years – and amassed sixteen national level wins as she came out, weekend after weekend, with a lorryload of horses and her son in tow, proving that actually, perhaps you can have it all. Through the season, she opened up about the toll that the pressures of the sport had taken on her. The break, while unplanned, had led to the birth of not only her son, but of a revitalised new Piggy, too. Her no-holds-barred return to the top levels led chef d’equipe Chris Bartle to quip that “having babies is obviously the secret – I think I’ll make it a team requirement!”

A steady climb (back) to the top – Piggy French finishes 2nd at Burghley 2017. Photo by Tilly Berendt.

And so the successes kept rolling in, and the buzz around her impressive string intensified. In the rangy chestnut Quarrycrest Echo, who had made his move up to Advanced and CIC3* in 2016 under Tina Cook with mixed results, Piggy found a talented upper-level contender whose quirks she could untangle and weave to his advantage. The pretty and powerful mare Vanir Kamira, produced by Piggy in 2012 before going to Izzy Taylor, Paul Tapner, and then, circuitously, back to Piggy, would give her her equal top result at 4* level – a close second place at Burghley, to match her runner-up result at Badminton in 2011. Between the two horses, Piggy would fly the Union Jack three times in 2017 – at Nations Cups at Houghton Hall and Aachen, and alongside Gemma Tattersall as an individual competitor for Britain at the European Championships. Her up-and-comers, too, generated much attention, lead by 1* wunderkind Cooley Monsoon. Owned by British comedy legend Jennifer Saunders – she of Absolutely Fabulous fame and one half of iconic duo (Dawn) French and Saunders – Cooley Monsoon won six of his eleven starts and finished in the top five of the rest, with the exception of a rare twenty penalties and subsequent 20th place at Bradwall.

So why the speculation? Because, dear readers, we have every reason to believe that 2017 was simply a warm-up. With only a handful of days of completed competition in the UK, Piggy has already clocked up a slightly bonkers twelve completions. Eight of those have resulted in top-five finishes, and three of them she’s won. Oh, and those wins? She nabbed them all in one day, while competing eight horses at Oasby. We’ve just Busy Izzy and, um…Turbo Townend (I’ll copyright that later), so ten points to anyone who can come up with the catchiest nickname for Piggy for 2018.

For now, Piggy can enjoy the view from atop the British Eventing leaderboard, but we suspect she’ll be aiming to top another leaderboard this spring. Always a bridesmaid, never a bride? We very much doubt it.

To celebrate the rise and rise of Ms French, enjoy this video from An Eventful Life of one of her Oasby wins last weekend, on Graf Cavalier. Intermediate, or a Pony Club schooling track? You decide.

Go Piggy, and go eventing!

Piggy French and Graf Cavalier Oasby (1) 2018

Congratulations to Piggy French and Graf Cavalier, winners of the Intermediate Sec H and our #XCVideo at #OasbyHT Bede Events #TriStarEventing – watch and learn! https://www.an-eventful-life.com.au/event/oasby-1-2018

Posted by An Eventful Life on Wednesday, March 14, 2018

 

 

Stephen Bradley: ‘Education and Learning With Horses Is a Lifelong Pursuit’

By on Mar 16, 2018 4:00 pm -

Stephen Bradley is one of the most widely recognized names in eventing, a winner of prestigious competitions including Burghley (one of only two Americans to do so), Canada’s Checkmate International CCI3* three times in a row, and the Kentucky Three-Day Event CCI3*. He is also a two-time Pan American Games Gold medalist and represented the U.S. at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.

Stephen is currently based out of historic Long Branch Estate in White Post, Virginia, where he trains and teaches aspiring eventers of all levels. Bradley’s exceptional ability to understand what each horse needs to reach its highest potential gave him the nickname “The Horse Whisperer” early on in his career. Today, Bradley is equally well regarded for his ability to inspire confidence in riders of all levels. As an instructor, he conducts regular clinics and camps throughout Area II as well as nationwide.

Our friends at Event Clinics recently caught up with Stephen Bradley after he finished teaching one of his popular jumping clinics, about teaching, learning and a few lessons he has learned along the way.

Stephen Bradley and Marble Arch at Richland Park. Photo by Kasey Mueller.

According to Stephen, his favorite part of teaching clinics is “getting to know and understand where each individual horse and rider combination are at in their education. My goal as an instructor is to build on where they are at and give them opportunities to improve.” When teaching or training, he focuses on establishing a methodical system of communication between horse and rider, explaining, “The majority of my teaching comes with improving the quality of the basics.”

Stephen notes that he is realistic about the fact that not every exercise he prescribes to a horse and rider combination is going to work perfectly the first time. However, he asks that riders in his clinics come in willing to consider new approaches: “My expectation of riders who attend my clinics is that they come with an open mind. They should be willing to try ideas or exercises I believe will help them to improve. That’s not to say everything is going to work perfectly the first time, or they’re going to go home and utilize everything that we work on together, but I at least want them to try.”

He feels that the students who are willing to try something new are in the best mental place to be prepared for his clinics. “They might try a new length of stirrup, or riding with a bridge in their reins for the first time, for example,” he says.

He consistently sees such students finish as better riders, with better horses underneath them, than students who come in reluctant to try new techniques. He explains, “Riders who come into a clinic not wanting to learn and try new things will have a hard time leaving the clinic as a better pair.”

Stephen says that he thoroughly enjoys teaching cross country (as many eventers like this phase the best!), but believes strongly that “any jumping phase always comes back to basic flatwork.” Regardless of which phase is the instructional focus, it always comes back to the importance of dressage.

No matter which phase he is teaching, Stephen often uses a common phrase to communicate with riders when he teaches. He explained, “I like to bring riders back to the basics, so they can visualize how their horse should move.”

Specifically, he likes to use a metaphor of the horse being on a balance beam. Stephen tells his riders to imagine their horse walking, trotting and cantering on a balance beam. When jumping, the rider should imagine their horse “leaping, or leaping multiple times, still on that balance beam.”

He observes that education and learning with horses is a lifelong pursuit. “The best advice that I’m glad I took is that ‘If you are going to make a career of horses you have to be in it for the long haul.’ Bruce Davidson told me long ago, when I was just starting my career, that years down the road I’ll look back and say, ‘If I only knew then what I know now.’ For me, as I’ve gotten older, that has only become more important and ingrained in my feelings and thoughts.”

Stephen let us in on a couple other interests he has outside of horses. “I love to cook!” he says. He also recently read The Good Son by Christopher Anderson, which explores the complex relationship John F. Kennedy Jr. had with his mother, Jackie Kennedy Onassis, after the death of his father, President Kennedy.

Frankly, we’re amazed that Stephen finds time to do anything outside the barn. He has a busy clinic schedule already queued up for 2018! If you are interested in riding in or auditing an upcoming Stephen Bradley clinic, check out his Event Clinics calendar link.

#EventerFailFriday: The Struggle Is Real

By on Mar 16, 2018 11:30 am -

Happy #EventerFailFriday! All aboard the strugglebus, choochoo! Here we go … don’t forget to tag your strugs on Instagram for inclusion in a future edition!

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Go Eventing.

Twin Rivers to Host West Coast Young Event Horse Seminar

By on Mar 16, 2018 9:00 am -

Tamie Smith and Bonner Carpenter’s Summerbridge Parc, winner of the 2017 YEH 5-year-old West Coast Championships. Photo by Shelby Allen.

Twin Rivers Ranch in Paso Robles, California has been announced as the host venue for the 2018 West Coast Young Event Horse (YEH) Seminar on April 11-12.

Following on the successful YEH Day at last month’s USEA Educational Symposium in Ocala, the West Coast will also have the opportunity to learn the new judging and scoring system introduced for the YEH program at the beginning of the year.

YEH judges are required to attend an educational seminar or symposium about the new YEH scoring system in order to remain on the list of judges, and this seminar will count as credit for YEH judges to remain on the list.

The seminar will cover topics ranging from the new scoring system; judging the dressage, conformation and jumping/gallop phases; as well as tips for organizers, competitors and all others involved in running YEH competitions.

The presentations will be led by Gretchen Butts, Bea di Grazia, Loris Henry, Mark Weissbecker, Karen Winn and Daniel Zilla, and will include interactive demonstrations and a robust Q&A session.

Looking ahead to the rest of the year, Fair Hill will once again host the Young Event Horse East Coast Championships, and Fresno County Horse Park will host the West Coast Championships. Sally Ike and Lucinda Green will be the judges for both championships, and Derek di Grazia will design the courses for both championships.

Tentatives times for the West Coast Young Event Horse Seminar are 4-7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 11, and 9 a.m.-noon Thursday, April 12. Registration for the seminar is $45 for current USEA members and $50 for USEA non-members. To register for the seminar, please click here.

Shout out to Bea DiGrazia and Wendy Wergeles for organizing this seminar! For more information, please contact [email protected] or [email protected].

[West Coast YEH Seminar Coming in April]

Friday News & Notes from Kentucky Equine Research

By on Mar 16, 2018 12:03 am -

Shannon Brinkman’s daughter, Roya, living every child’s dream with a unicorn from Redemptive Love Farm at Red Hills. Photo by Shannon.

Man. I gotta say, I hate daylight savings time. Now it’s dark again when I wake up and that’s gotta be the most depressing thing in the world. Add that to the fact that it’s now light until 7:30 (aka you can keep working outside until then) and my days just got exponentially longer. I miss being lazy in the winter and quitting at 5 or 6! Bring it back!

National Holiday: National Artichoke Hearts Day

U.S. Weekend Preview:

Pine Top Spring H.T. [Website] [Entry Status] [Ride Times] [Live Results]

Ocala Winter II H.T. [Website] [Entry Status] [Ride Times] [Live Results]

MeadowCreek Park H.T. [Website] [Entry Status] [Ride Times] [Live Results]

Copper Meadows Winter H.T. [Website] [Entry Status/Ride Times/Live Scores]

News From Around the Globe:

Full Gallop Horse Trials is one of the Aiken fixtures throughout the year, but it’s been a long work in progress for owners Lara Anderson and Daniel Brown. They bought the property in 2000 with just one barn and a fenced paddock, but a lot of potential. By 2006 they had built enough stalls, arena areas, and cross country jumps to host their first recognized event. The event still runs “old school” style, with dressage and show jumping on the grass, thanks to the excellent natural footing of South Carolina. [Events A-Z: Full Gallop]

Team Ireland Equestrian and Eventing Ireland members will take to the racetrack to help raise funds towards their High-Performance Squads and the senior athletes journey to the World Equestrian Games, in Tryon later on this year. The World Equestrian Games is the first opportunity for the Irish Eventing team to qualify for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. The Event Riders Challenge Race is the last race on the card in Dundalk Stadium on Wednesday, March 28. Team Ireland Equestrian sponsors and Dundalk-based company, Horseware Ireland, have kindly agreed to be the title sponsors for the race. [Event Riders Racing Towards WEG]

Volunteers are truly the backbone of our lovely sport of Eventing. While all the riders and grooms and owners work hard with the horses to get them to the competitions, the show literally cannot go on without extensive help from volunteers. We rely on them for scribing, starting box duties, fence judging, score running, commentating and hospitality to name a few. We can’t do it without volunteers! [Volunteers: The Unsung Heroes of Eventing]

Schramm Sesh of the Week

Jimmie and Dom Schramm have teamed up with Kentucky Equine Research to provide an inside look into their conditioning program using KER ClockIt Sport. Each week we’ll share an example ride and some notes of what the Schramms look for as their horses progress.

Hills are an important part of many eventers conditioning strategy. So what do you do when you’re wintering in flat Florida? Dom Schramm starts his horses with three 3-minute canters, working up to 5-minute intervals. He warms up with a 15-minute trot, and gives a minute-long break between each canter.

“Typically I only do interval training while we are in Florida as we don’t have any hills down here,” Dom said. “I also think it’s a good way to get them back to fitness after having a winter break. I normally start at 3x3s and slowly work them up to 3x5s by the time we are headed back north at the end of March. I find by the time they have gotten to this point and have done a few shows they are about ready to begin hill gallops when we get home to Pennsylvania.”

Dom recorded this session with Whitford, a young horse he’s preparing for a CCI1* in June.

Check back next week for another Schramm Sesh! Want to gain insight into your horse’s fitness? Try KER ClockIt Sport. The free app helps take the guesswork out of equine fitness by monitoring heart rate, speed, distance and altitude during rides. EN’s guides to the app explain all the details: 7 Reasons to Download KER ClockIt Sport and How To Get the Most Out of KER ClockIt Sport.

Increasing International Entries Indicate Growth in Eventing

By on Mar 15, 2018 4:28 pm -

The Ocala Jockey Club is one of the newest international events added in the U.S. in recent years. Photo by Jenni Autry.

An eye-popping 168 entries are currently on the list to compete in the Grantham Cup CIC3* at Belton Park International in Lincolnshire next month. While the organizers are currently wading through the ballot and waitlist process, it is highly likely we will see a record number of starters in the CIC3* at Belton this year — and perhaps a record across all international levels.

We want to the stats gurus at EquiRatings to confirm the highest numbers of starters in a single FEI section. Belton currently holds the record for CIC3* with 122 starters in the Grantham Cup in 2016. While 151 combinations started at Hartpury in 2010, the entries were split into two sections. Another six events have recorded more than 122 starters at CIC3* level, but again all were split into two sections.

The highest number of starters on record at any international level goes to Dijon Bonvaux in France, which started 146 in the CCI1* in 2008 — that is the number to beat for Belton to set a new record this year.

Regardless of whether Belton does in fact record the highest number of starters in international history, recent statistics indicate the sport is continuing to grow at a steady pace. The 2017 FEI Eventing Statistics Report released earlier this month shows the total number of starters competing across all FEI levels has increased by 51% from 2006 to 2017, with a record high 20,611 total starters competing in 2017.

Starters at one-star level represented 49.6% of the total number of starters in FEI competitions for 2017, and combined with the two-star level make up more than 80% of the total number of starters. Two-star level recorded 32.1% of the total number of starters for 2017, with three-star at 16.7% and four-star at 1.6%.

Eventing has also seen a 70% increase in international competitions since 2006. The number of CCI competitions has steadily decreased since then, with the number of CIC competitions rising; 68% of international competitions that ran in 2017 were CIC, as opposed to 32% as CCI.

The growth in competitions running at the one-star level has seen a steady gain, nearly doubling in the last 12 years, from 171 in 2006 to 322 in 2017. Events at the one-star level accounted for nearly half of the 690 total international competitions that took place across all levels in 2017.

There are plenty of numbers to sink your teeth into in the 2017 FEI Eventing Statistics Report, including the latest statistics on falls and injuries in eventing. Click here to read the full report.

Thursday Video from Nupafeed: Red Hills Three-Star Water

By on Mar 15, 2018 3:00 pm -

Are you tired of Red Hills coverage yet? Good, me neither!

The lovely folks of RNS Videomedia were once again on site at Red Hills International Horse Trials this year and have put together a great montage of all the CIC3* pairs through the final water complex. This was the penultimate big question on Mike Etherington-Smith’s course in which riders tackled a log into the water with five strides to an A, B combination of offset coops a stride apart. Give it a watch and see how it rode: