We’re rolling right into our next CCI5* event to round out this top half of 2025, and this time we’ll be journeying to Germany to visit Longines Luhmühlen, which will play host to some 55
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Sunday at Badminton always feels like three different days of three very different lengths, all rolled into one: there’s the morning’s long, slow final horse inspection, which is a full-scale, high-tension competitive endeavour in its
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This is it. The Badminton title awaits. There’s just the small matter of keeping the poles in the cups first… I’ll be with you for every fence, bringing you a ringside seat as the competitors
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Yesterday was a very good day in the office for Oliver Townend, who retained his first-phase lead with eleven-year-old Cooley Rosalent, adding just 1.2 time penalties, and also retained his ninth place position with eighteen-year-old Ballaghmor Class, who added
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There’s been plenty of discussion in the lead-up to today’s cross country challenge at the MARS Badminton Horse Trials about how different it all feels: for the first time in a few years, the sun
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Here we go ENers! It’s Saturday. It’s Badminton. It’s cross country day. Buckle up for the best day. I’ll be with you all day long, live blogging ‘til I can live blog no more, bringing
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Tom McEwen made a valiant effort at clinging onto his dressage lead with JL Dublin, but after holding it for 24 hours, he was elbowed out of the top spot by late contenders Oliver Townend
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At the Defender Kentucky Three-Day Event a couple of weeks ago, something terrible happened: I ran out of time to be recreationally mean on the internet. First it was Wednesday, which is prime Being Mean
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If the story of Thursday morning was how tough it was to get any marks at all out of the ground jury, then the story of the afternoon is surely how expansive of a lead
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Thursday morning at the MARS Badminton Horse Trials often feels, for those of us in the mixed media zone, anyway, like a bit of a warm-up: we’re not firing on all cylinders quite yet, the
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Whew, here we go! It’s already time for another 5* Form Guide in true EN fashion as we look ahead to the start of competition tomorrow at MARS Badminton Horse Trials. As we mentioned during
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This year’s field at the MARS Badminton Horse Trials is, by any metric, about as good as it gets: there’s former champions, almost too many five-star winners to shake a stick at, flags upon flags upon
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Reigning German Olympic champion Michael Jung knows the winning feeling quite well. He’s not been beaten on U.S. soil much — he lost once to Oliver Townend with a devastating pole down on Sunday back in
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Here. We. Go. The finale of the 5* competition at Defender Kentucky is upon us and we don’t have long to wait now ‘til we find out who’ll take the 2025 Kentucky Crown. There’s just
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Even when it comes to horse inspections, Michael Jung and fischerChipmunk FRH are leading the way at the Defender Kentucky Three Day Event — the current leader of the CCI5* was the first to present,
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Here. We. Go. It’s the best bit of the best day at the Best Weekend All Year – it’s time for the 5* cross country to kick off and boy is it going to be
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Here we go ENers! It’s cross country day at Defender Kentucky and first up we have the Cosequin Lexington 4*-S competition. I’ll be here with you ALL DAY, bringing you every scrap of the action
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So before we get into the nitty gritty of what went down (literally) on Friday in the Defender Kentucky 5* dressage finale, I thought I’d just lead with a little Chat GPT-written diddy, which works
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We’re back with the action at Defender Kentucky where the remaining 5* superstars are waiting in the wings to get their competition underway. Yesterday we saw some quality dressage with scores to match – notably
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We were treated to yet another record set by German Olympic champion Michael Jung much earlier than usual in the drawn order on Thursday at Defender Kentucky. While his record-setting (again!) 18.6 earned with fischerChipmunk
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It is happening. The Best Weekend All Year is upon us and I’ll be bringing you all of the action, as it happens, from Kentucky Horse Park where the 5* competition is about to get
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We started off Defender Kentucky week with a side of unfortunate drama this afternoon as the 35 CCI5* entries came forward to present to the Ground Jury, presided over by Christian Steiner (AUT) and joined
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It’s time to unveil our first 5* Form Guide of 2025! This year, we’ve reimagined our Form Guides to make them easier to consume and simpler for our team to put together. We’ve housed this
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