The last training fence at Great Vista
On the home front, it is a busy Sunday of eventing as 6 USEA horse trials are finishing today. In Washington, the Caber Farms intermediate cross-country caused some big issues yesterday. Of the 12 starters, 3 fell, and just 5 finished without a stop. Maya Black and Konagi survived with just 6 time penalties and took home the victory a few minutes ago with one of only two double-clear show jumping rounds. [Caber Farms live scores]
The New Mexico Event at Goose Downs is running cross-country today. The beginner novice division is the only division to post results yet, and Jennifer Miller and Bon Bon have won provisionally on a 24.0. [Goose Down live scores]
Huntington Farm HT is competing a full horse trials today. They are making quick work of things and most divisions have scores in for at least two phases already. [Huntington scores]
Keeping things in the north east, Sue Hines and Flying Four Shoes picked up the preliminary victory at the Erie Hunt and Saddle Club HT. Kelly Sult finished two horses in the top four of that division as well. [Erie scores]
The Great Vista HT is also running in New York this weekend and we’ll link to online scores when they are posted. [Great Vista website]
The Difficult Run Pony Club HT in Virginia ran prelim and beginner novice on Saturday. Ronald Zabala-Goetschel competed 3 horses in the open prelim, Elinor MacPhail had two, and Yvonne Lucas had two as well. Fie Ottosen and Clifton finished on a 31.1 for the win. Novice and training are competing today at Diffiuclt run. [Difficult Run Saturday results]
I confess that before I started writing for Eventing Nation I was one of those riders who couldn’t care less about events outside of the United States unless it had a 4* after its name. But I have been able to widen my perspective these past two years thanks to live scores, live video feeds, and everything else. I am very thankful to find that French eventing is considerably more interesting than it sounds.
The Haras du Pin CIC3* WC has just finished the awards ceremony in France. Clayton Fredericks pulled out the win for Australia and, along with Chris Burton on two horses, made it an Aussie sweep of the medals. New Zealand’s Clark Johnstone won the FEI overall world cup, although if you read ESJ’s post last night, you knew that result was inevitable whatever happened today in the show jumping. Clarke, at just 24 years old, is one of the world’s brightest young eventing stars. [Haras du Pin Scores]
Meanwhile, in Scotland, Blair Castle is just wrapping up the Young Rider Championships show jumping. Andrew Nicholson won the CCI3* with Calico Joe. Beth Collier is on scene at Blair Castle this weekend and was kind enough to send us a quick update from the cross-country:
Cross-country went on for 10 hours on Saturday due to a 45 minute hold for a rider who was transported in the air ambulance (no word on her condition). After X-C, it’s Great Britain, Ireland, and France in the top three for the young riders. The x-c ended about 7pm after starting at 8:45am. Some hardy spectators stayed until the end. The sole US rider competing at Blair Castle, Marilyn Little-Meredith, was 4th with one of her horses after dressage, but had a run out at jump 9C and time penalties. Her other horse was 17th after dressage, and was clear on x-c and moved up to finish 4th after the show jumping.
I want to end with two quick shout-outs. First, to LisaB for welcoming a new member into the family, and second to Denny Emerson for celebrating his birthday on Saturday. Go eventing.
