Aboard Air Horse One
US horses are in transit all over the world today. Remington is in France, the horses from the US who will be competing in the Asian games later this month are in quarantine in Aachen (more on that later) and, the east coast horses landed in California this afternoon for the Galway CCI3*.
Jennie Brannigan and Cambalda
Allison Springer and Arthur
Imtiaz Anees and Interwin
Casey McKissock and Special Blend
Kristen Bachman and Gryffindor
From what I hear, the horses all arrived safe and sound. Jennie will be moving Cambalda up at Galway and I expect them to continue their foot perfect rise through the levels this weekend. Buck had planned to take Ty but the horse was injured last week. The horses left BWI at 5am this morning and landed in Cali around lunchtime. Jennie kindly sent Eventing Nation some photos from the trip.
It was a chilly drive to the airport
In other news, Mark Phillips is the new designer for the Belton Horse Trials XC course for 2011. Mark will be taking over at Belton for Olympic 2012 course designer Sue Benson. The Belton XC course has had some issues over the past few years, including a rider fatality in 2009. Personally I think Mark’s courses in the US have gotten much better in the past couple of years now that he has gotten away from the habit of including random small single skinny fences in the middle of gallops.
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Chattahoochee Update: USEA Sunday recap, and great XC Photos from Leslie Threlkeld
Go eventing.
