Here we are at the halfway point of the season’s 5*s, on the best day – cross country day – and I’ll be with you right from the first “Gute fahrt” to the last. (Sorry
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Tomorrow’s cross-country course at the Longines Luhmühlen CCI5* has got everyone talking, with several riders reckoning the 11:08 optimum time will be near-on impossible to catch, even with just 28 numbered fences — and that
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Yesterday’s first dressage day at the Longines Luhmühlen Horse Trials was notable mostly for its harsh judging, with nobody across either the CCI4*-S or the feature CCI5* breaking into the 20s (and plenty, to their
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The eventing overlords giveth, and the eventing overlords taketh away: such is the feeling on day one of the Longines Luhmühlen Horse Trials, anyway, where we were given so much – blazing sunshine, a sterling
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There’s nothing, in our humble opinion, more restorative for the soul than a mid-season trip to the Longines Luhmühlen Horse Trials. It’s arguably the friendliest event in the world (upon arrival today, we were duly
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U.S. Olympian Lauren Nicholson calls herself a “bridesmaid” when referring to her record at the 4*-L level. She’d competed in 32 CCI3*s/CCI4*-Ls prior to this weekend at MARS Bromont CCI. She’d finished on the podium
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We are safely through the Final Horse Inspection at MARS Bromont in Quebec after all presented horses were accepted in front of each division’s ground jury members. We do, however, have one big change to
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Eight-and-a-bit solid hours of cross-country was always going to feel like a spectacularly long day, but early on in today’s competition at the Defender Bramham International, it started to feel as though it might be
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Thursday’s CCI4*-L leaders at the Defender Bramham International made a strong bid to stay at the top of the leaderboard with their score of 24.6 – but today, Sarah Bullimore and her homebred Corimiro would
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The new kids on the block are taking over in the CCI4*-L at the MARS Bromont CCI this weekend– all of our top three horses are aiming to complete their first long-format event at the
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After all the fun and games of yesterday’s first horse inspection at the Defender Bramham International Horse Trials, perhaps we could all have been forgiven for thinking the event’s officials would be in a rather
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US Equestrian is pleased to announce the athlete-and-horse combinations selected to represent the Defender U.S. Eventing Team at CHIO Aachen in the FEI Eventing Nations Cup CCIO4*-S hosted in Aachen, Germany, from July 2-5, 2025.
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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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