If you’ve ever thought that Pau’s twisty, turny, half-stride heavy cross-country course looks like a serious challenge, take a moment to consider, too, its showjumping track. Historically, this is the toughest of the five-stars in
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Hello, it’s me, your roving meteorologist, reporting live from Pau to tell you that if there’s a trot-up going on, there’s a 100% chance it’s raining harder than you previously thought possible, even if it’s
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Yesterday, at some point in the midst of 54 dressage tests and a swift descent into insanity, we had a chat with a certain Mr. Tim Price, who admitted that he reckoned this year’s Pau
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Well ENers, here we find ourselves, on the cusp of the final 5* cross country day of 2025 and it’s going to be a big one. There’s a hefty entry list for Les 5 Étoiles
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How do you solve a problem like Storm Benjamin? You cancel your Thursday plans and move 54 dressage tests to Friday, if you’re a mad collective of French event organisers and you’re absolutely determined to
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Classic Pierre: half strides galore, lots and lots of places to not make a silly mistake, and a brand new drop that’s bigger than the Burghley Leaf Pit – it’s all happening at Pau. Speed’ll
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It hasn’t been, shall we say, a normal start to Les 5 Etoiles de Pau, the final CCI5* of the 2025 season – but then, we keep reminding ourselves, when is France’s showpiece event ever
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Ahead of Friday’s FULL DAY OF DRESSAGE (yayyy…) at Les 5 Étoiles de Pau, we’ve got your primer to this absolutely stacked field ready for viewing as you follow along! You can find more information
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What a welcome to the final CCI5* of the year: yesterday, we took our first turn around the course in high-70s sunshine, and today, we’ve gone back to bed because the wind is so wild
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Let’s do it one more time! This week the curtain rises on our final CCI5* of a whirlwind 2025 season. This time, we’ll be heading to the south of France (and, apparently, the rainy weather
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Just over three years ago, Felix Vogg (SUI) cantered into the main arena at Luhmühlen’s CCI5* aboard his veteran Olympic horse, Colero. It had been over 70 years since a Swiss rider had last won
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We’ve been treated to yet another drama-free trot up here at the MARS Maryland 5 Star, and while we did have two eliminations in the CCI3* (Dana Cooke with FE Damaskus and Zach Brandt with
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I’m pretty confident I got more sleep last night than the riders competing at the MARS Maryland 5 Star, but as I stared at my phone as the clock ticked toward 3 a.m. last night,
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Here we go ENers! It’s the penultimate 5* of the season and we’re Stateside for the second US top-level offering. We may not have the massive field that we see at some of the big
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We arrived at the fifth anniversary MARS Maryland 5 Star eager to get out on course as soon as humanly possible. We knew we’d be looking at something completely different: for nearly the first time
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“Hi mama!” three-year-old Gus yells as his mother, Monica Spencer, gallops up Nelson’s Hill (one of the best conditioning hills on the East coast, and probably in the country) and past her husband, Andrew’s, camera.
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It’s time to kick off the 2025 MARS Maryland 5 Star at Fair Hill, presented by Brown Advisory! We’ve got a roster full of potential 5* champions on our hands this week, so as is
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There’s something so lovely about an uneventful jog (and of course we always hope it’s uneventful on Wednesday), and we were treated to just that today to open the week at the fifth-anniversary MARS Maryland
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We know that truly anything can happen in sports on any given day. Really, that’s one thing that makes sports just so incredibly great. No matter how much of a sure thing something can be,
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In the months leading up to Military Boekelo, Belgium’s Lara de Liedekerke-Meier found herself sitting on the metaphorical fence. It had been her goal all year to bring the nine-year-old Kiarado d’Arville back to the
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We were treated to a relatively drama-free trot-up this morning as the CCI4*-L and CCI4*-S each presented for the Ground Jury of Peter Gray (CAN), Bea di Grazia (USA) and Helen Christine (NZL) as well
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It’s a lightning-fast update from us here at Military Boekelo this morning, where we’ve just seen over 70 horses present at the final trot-up and now we’re already just moments away from the start of
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“What can I say? They were great,” Will Coleman started off when I chatted to him at the end of cross country day at the US Equestrian Open of Eventing Final at Morven Park. It
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