A very dreary Pine Top, courtesy of Doug Payne
It’s been a busy week on EN, and more to come this weekend. We’ve enjoyed a lovely week here in Kentucky– it was 70 yesterday!– but today winter has returned with hail and sleet. However, it sounds like the weather has been much worse (albeit warmer) down in Thomson, GA at Pine Top. Despite the storms, it appears the intermediate dressage was completed and hopefully everyone can have a safe jumping day tomorrow.
A view from my car: volunteer jump judge at Pine Top, just before XC was cancelled for the day
Speaking of Pine Top, here are your overnight leaders in the Advanced and Intermediate divisions:
Adv-1
1. Michael Pollard (Schoensgreen Hanni) 29.4
2T. Michael Pollard (Icarus III) 30.3
2T. Becky Holder (Courageous Comet) 30.3
Adv-2
1. Michael Pollard (Jude’s Law) 24.4
2T. Michael Pollard (DV8) 29.7
2T. Heather Morris (Slate River) 29.7
Adv-3
1. Michele Mueller (Amistad) 33.1
2. Danielle Dichting (The Graduate) 35.3
3. Devon Brown (Dynamic Image) 37.2
Int-1
1. Will Coleman (Zipp) 26.0
2. Boyd Martin (Remington XXV) 29.2
3. Will Coleman (Nevada Bay) 30.4
Int-2
1. Phillip Dutton (Ben) 26.8
2. Will Faudree (Pawlow) 27.6
3. Doug Payne (Running Order) 28.0
Int-3
1. Jessica Shultz (Lock N’ Load) 25.6
2. Alexandra Tatham (Astaire to the Future) 32.4
3. Lizzie Snow (Coal Creek) 33.6
As mentioned this morning, it is “Last Chance Olympic Qualifying Weekend,” featuring Ballindenisk CCI3* in Ireland and Montelibretti CCI3* in Italy.
Ballindenisk CCI3* leaders: (courtesy of UK Eventing Blog’s twitter)
1. Oliver Townend (Arctic Mouse) 41.2
2. Tina Cook (Miner’s Frolic) 46.5
3. Geoff Curan (The Jump Jet) 50.2
[Full scores]
Montelibretti CCI3* leaders:
1. Andrew HOY – Rutherglen – pt 39.20
2. karin DONCKERS – Lamicell Charizard – pt 41.00
3. Karin DONCKERS – Lamicell Unique – pt 44.80
[Full dressage scores – PDF]
Looking back on the week, we had a lot of quality content here on EN. Here’s a brief recap of the good stuff in case you missed it:
- We caught up with Holly Hudspeth and Stewie, who are competing this weekend at Pine Top
- Megan Moore gave us her write-up of the morning half of the Aiken Training Sessions.
- More Aiken Training Sessions, by Kate Samuels
- A little West Coast love, with photos and an awesome report from the California Training Sessions by Kate Erickson
- HN shared an Oliver Townend clinic report from British correspondent Jessie Widner
- ESJ gave us his breakdown of the Canadian Olympic team candidates
- And the best post of the week– some have called it the best ever– Lesley Grant Law told us her story of injury and rehab, quite simply a must-read if you haven’t already.
Go Eventing.
